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Ira Chinoy dissertation on UNIVAC election night forecasting
by Thomas Haigh 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello everyone, Googling around for something else I just stumbled on a 2010 dissertation called "BATTLE OF THE BRAINS: ELECTION-NIGHT FORECASTING AT THE DAWN OF THE COMPUTER AGE" by Ira Chinoy from U. of Maryland. The full text is at http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/10504/1/Chinoy_umd_0117E_11395.pdf. I didn't read it yet, but the abstract makes it sound interesting and it's certainly an exceptionally focused topic for a 588 page dissertation. The basic argument seems reasonable, and in line with the characterization of 1950s computer made in places such as my own paper "The Chromium Plated Tabulator" and the work of Yates, Cortada, etc of business computer use in the 1950s as an evolution of earlier practices combined with a symbolic gloss of revolutionary technology. Tom ABSTACT: This dissertation examines journalists' early encounters with computers as tools for news reporting, focusing on election-night forecasting in 1952. Although election night 1952 is frequently mentioned in histories of computing and journalism as a quirky but seminal episode, it has received little scholarly attention. This dissertation asks how and why election night and the nascent field of television news became points of entry for computers in news reporting. The dissertation argues that although computers were employed as pathbreaking "electronic brains" on election night 1952, they were used in ways consistent with a long tradition of election-night reporting. As central events in American culture, election nights had long served to showcase both news reporting and new technology, whether with 19th-century devices for displaying returns to waiting crowds or with 20th-century experiments in delivering news by radio. In 1952, key players - television news broadcasters, computer manufacturers, and critics - showed varied reactions to employing computers for election coverage. But this computer use in 1952 did not represent wholesale change. While live use of the new technology was a risk taken by broadcasters and computer makers in a quest for attention, the underlying methodology of forecasting from early returns did not represent a sharp break with pre-computer approaches. And while computers were touted in advance as key features of election-night broadcasts, the "electronic brains" did not replace "human brains" as primary sources of analysis on election night in 1952. This case study chronicles the circumstances under which a new technology was employed by a relatively new form of the news media. On election night 1952, the computer was deployed not so much to revolutionize news reporting as to capture public attention. It functioned in line with existing values and practices of election-night journalism. In this important instance, therefore, the new technology's technical features were less a driving force for adoption than its usefulness as a wonder and as a symbol to enhance the prestige of its adopters. This suggests that a new technology's capacity to provide both technical and symbolic social utility can be key to its chances for adoption by the news media.

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New book on computers in banking
by "Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo (shī fu)" 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Coleagues The following is now being distributed Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/ you can find the introduction here http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/26212.html And I take the liberty of including the table of contents PART I Introduction 1 In Digital We Trust: The Computerization of Retail Finance in Western Europe and North America BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO, J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS, AND PAUL THOMES PART II Digitalizing Commercial Banks 2 From Prehistory to the History of Computers in Banking: Mechanization of Data Processing and Accounting Methods in French Banks, circa 1930–1950 HUBERT BONIN 3 Britain’s First Computer Centre for Banking: What Did This Building Do? IAN MARTIN 4 Technical and Organizational Change in Swedish Banking, 1975–2003 JOAKIM APPELQUIST 5 Computerization of Commercial Banks and the Building of an Automated Payments System in Mexico, 1965–1990 92 GUSTAVO A. DEL ANGEL MOBARAK PART III Digitalizing State, Mutual, and Savings Banks 6 Is There an ICT Path in the German Savings Banking Industry? Circa 1900–1970s PAUL THOMES 7 Organizational Change and the Computerization of British and Spanish Savings Banks, circa 1950–1985 BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO AND J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS 8 Techno-Nationalism, the Post Offi ce, and the Creation of Britain’s National Giro ALAN BOOTH AND MARK BILLINGS 9 Rabobank: An Innovative Dutch Bank, 1945–2000 JOKE MOOIJ PART IV Socio-Historical Aspects of Digitalization 10 The Automated House: The Digitalization of the London Stock Exchange, 1955–1990 JUAN PABLO PARDO-GUERRA 11 Historicizing Consumer Credit Risk Calculation: The Fair Isaac Process of Commercial Scorecard Manufacture, 1957–circa 1980 MARTHA POON 12 Automating Payments: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System DAVID STEARNS PART V Wrapping Up and Grand Conclusions 13 Retail Banking and the Dynamics of Information Technology in Business Organizations LARS HEIDE Saludos / best wishes Bernardo -- Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, FRHistS Professor of Business History and Bank Management Ysgol Busnes Bangor / Bangor Business School Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Gwynedd LL57 2DG (Cymru / Wales) b.batiz-lazo [at] bangor.ac.uk

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Ken Olsen
by Ceruzzi, Paul 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Here is a link to a YouTube video about Ken Olsen, who passed away a few days ago. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Hdg7ArQbE&feature=player_embedded> Paul E. Ceruzzi

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SHOT CALL FOR PAPERS 2011 -- deadline March 31
by Thomas Haigh 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hello SIGCIS members, Please find attached the CFP for SHOT's 2011 annual meeting, taking place in Cleveland this November. Full details at http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/cfp_shot_2011.pdf. Note that this is the call for the main SHOT annual meeting. SIGCIS plans to run its own one day workshop again this year, with a separate call, reviewing process, and submission mechanism to be announced in the next few weeks. You can submit to the SIGCIS workshop and to the main SHOT conference, but should not present the same material at both. To facilitate this well also make sure that our workshop deadline is after people have heard back from the SHOT program committee. SIGCIS does not have any designated space on the main conference program (other than the lunch meeting) but we have organized and submitted up to three panel proposals for each of the past seven years. These have been accepted more often than not. So if you have an idea for a paper (particularly one relevant to the conference themes) that you would like me to try to work into a panel proposal for the main workshop please let me know BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. This is particularly helpful for those new to SHOT who would benefit from assistance in appropriately framing their abstracts to maximize the chance of acceptance. SIGCIS members are also encouraged to use the list to contact others with similar interests to submit panel proposals without my direct involvement. SHOT doesnt always pay that much attention to the years themes, but anything related to them probably has a better chance. Fortunately they go well with our concerns: Technology, power and control (particularly technology and geography or technology and surveillance) and technology in use/appropriation. Finally, note that SHOT discourages North Americans from presenting papers at two North American meetings running so if you are a prolific researcher from the US or Canada who presented in the main conference in Tacoma last year then it would be better to participate as a chair/commentator in the Cleveland main conference and save your latest brilliant research for our workshop (which is not covered by this rule). Best wishes, Tom Haigh From: Jane Carlson [mailto:janecarlson@ntelos.net] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:46 PM To: janecarlson(a)ntelos.net Subject: SHOT CALL FOR PAPERS 2011 Good morning I wanted to write to let you know that SHOT 2011 will be held in Cleveland, OH in November of this year. As you probably know, it's a co-located meeting with HSS and 4S and the SHOT meeting will take place November 3-6 at the Marriott Downtown at Key Center. We are currently planning an exciting program and look forward to seeing you there! If you are interested in presenting a paper at this year's conference, please visit our website http://www.historyoftechnology.org/ as the Call for Papers has just been uploaded. Visit http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/cfp_shot_2011.pdf for a copy. This month's electronic newsletter will follow shortly. At the moment, it looks like the submission of paper and session proposals will be done via email. However, we are moving towards electronic submission and we would like to have this in place for the 2012 meeting. As you can imagine, this is not a simple process and we don't want to rush it! Finally, if you no longer wish to receive email blasts from the SHOT office or if we are writing to you at more than one email address, please let me know your preferred one and I will adjust the database. In the meantime, if you have any other questions, please let us know. With best wishes, Jane Jane Carlson Admin Assistant to Exec. Sec Society for the History of Technology Charlottesville, VA (434) 975 2190 (fax) (434) 987 6230 (cell)

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ACM History Committee fellowships ---> deadline 15 April 2011
by Thomas J. Misa 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Call for ACM History Fellowship Proposals Posted Thursday, January 27th, 2011 • To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to make two awards in 2011. One, a travel grant of $2,500 to support historical research on the wide variety of ACM-related activities, including ACM members, officers, and prize winners. Second, a fellowship grant of $5,000 focusing on ACM's rich institutional history, including consideration of its organization, publications, SIG activities, and sponsored conferences. Successful candidates for either award may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. • An announcement of 2011 call for fellowship proposals can be found <http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_annou…> (also as a pdf-format document <http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/ACM-fellowship_2011.pdf>). Proposals are due by 15 April 2011.

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Fw: CfP: Standardisation & Innovation in IT
by Sandra Mols 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Apologies for crossposting A call recently received through other pathways. Best regards Sandra Mols ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Kai Jakobs <kai.jakobs(a)COMSYS.RWTH-AACHEN.DE> To: MERSENNE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Fri, 4 February, 2011 11:18:58 Subject: CfP: Standardisation & Innovaton in IT Dear All, This CfP will perhaps be of interest to some of you. And if you receive this Call more than once, you probably belong to our target group ....... (my apologies nonetheless). Cheers, Kai. Call for Papers 7th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology SIIT 2011 www.siit2011.org 28 - 30 September 2011 Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin Technical University Berlin, Germany Technical co-sponsor: IEEE SA Sponsors: DIN, DKE, Microsoft, tba Standardisation research is a multi-disciplinary field. Contributing disciplines include, but are by no means limited to, Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Information Systems, Management Studies, History and Social Sciences. While standards and standardisation research is an emerging research area it is of considerable interest and relevance to a large non-academic constituency that includes practitioners from industry, policy makers, users and consumer communities and, last but not least, to those active in or working for, standards setting organisations. Accordingly, the SIIT conferences aim at bringing together representatives of these communities to foster the exchange of insights and views on all issues surrounding ICT standards and standardisation. Topics Theoretical and empirical papers as well as case studies are welcome that shed some light on IT standards, standardisation, and innovation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * standardisation and innovation * impact of standards * implementation and diffusion of standards * standardisation policies and regulation * competing regional and international regimes * standards and developing countries * e-Government standards * intellectual property rights and antitrust law * standards setting processes and organisations * standards cultures * standards education * history of standardisation * corporate standards strategies * alternative compatibility strategies and interoperability Important Dates Submissions due: 15 April 2011 Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2011 Final paper due: 19 August 2011 All information about the conference will be announced at www.SIIT2011.org Paper Submissions Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6,000 words are solicited. They will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Authors may submit more than one paper, but each participant will only be allowed to present one paper during the conference. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and are planned to be available through IEEE Xplore. Accordingly, the authors must comply with the IEEE policy on copyright and plagiarism including self-plagiarism. Authors of accepted papers will also be asked to sign an IEEE Copyright Form. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). Submissions should be sent in .pdf or .rtf format to r.n.a.bekkers(a)tue.nl Travel Grants We expect to be able to offer travel grants for students and for attendees from developing countries. Those who are interested should send an e-mail message to siit2011(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de Previous SIIT Conferences 1999 RWTH Aachen University, DE 2001 University of Colorado, Boulder, US 2003 Technical University of Delft, NL 2005 ITU-T, Geneva, CH 2007 University of Calgary, CA 2009 Kogakuin University, Tokyo, JP General Chair Knut Blind, Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin, DE Programme Committee Chairs Rudi Bekkers, Eindhoven U. of Technology, NL Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US Programme Committee Members Paolo Bellavista, Bologna U., IT Knut Blind, FOKUS, TU Berlin, DE Francoise Bousquet, ZFIB, FR Nils Brunsson, Stockholm School of Economics, SE Donggeu Choi, KSA, KR Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Vlad Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT Linda Garcia, Georgetown U., US Stephan Gauch, TU Berlin, DE John Hudson, Bath U., UK Eric Iversen, NIFU STEP, NO Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE Dirk Kuhlmann, HP, UK Heejin Lee, Yonsei U., KR Aija Leiponen, Imperial College, UK Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US Yann Maniere, Ecole de Mines, FR Eric Monteiro, Norwegian TU, NO Don Purcell, Catholic U., US Roy Rada, Maryland U., US Tim Schoechle, U. of Colorado, US Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, US Tim Simcoe, Boston U., US Jan Smits, TU. of Eindhoven, NL Michael Spring, Pittsburgh U., US Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL Klaus Turowski, Augsburg U., DE Taavi Valdlo, Estonian Informatics Centre, EE Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL Henk de Vries, Erasmus U., NL Marc van Wegberg, Maastricht U., NL Willem Wakker, ACE, NL Juergen Wehnert, urbane resourcen, DE Joel West, San José State U., US Robin Williams, Edinburgh U., UK Advisory Board Heinrich Arnold, DTAG, DE Torsten Bahke, DIN, DE Carl Cargill, Adobe, US Ute Decker, Microsoft, UK Jochen Friedrich, IBM, DE Mattias Ganslandt, Lund U., NO Alexander Gelman, IEEE SA, US Malcolm Johnson ITU TSB, CH John Ketchell, CEN, BE Martin Libicki, RAND Corp., US Markus Reigl, Siemens, DE Ulrich Sandl, BMWi, DE Jack Sheldon, IEC, CH Jonas Sundborg, Ericsson, SE Bernhard Thies, DKE Stéphane Trochone, Qualcomm, US Trond Arne Undheim, Oracle, UK Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer & Updegrove, US Walter Weigel, ETSI, FR John Wilson, Worldbank, US International Organising Committee Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US Tim Schoechle, ICSR, US Mostafa H. Sherif, AT&T, US Local organizers Brigitte Essoun, TU Berlin, DE Stephan Gauch, TU Berlin, DE ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22220 Kai.Jakobs(a)comsys.rwth-aachen.de <http://www.nets.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html> EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. <http://www.euras.org> The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. <http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr> The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. <http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 7, Issue 12
by Dag Spicer 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

What is the difference between a "Roundtable" and an "Open Fishbowl?" Dag On 1/26/11 9:23 PM, "members-request(a)sigcis.org" <members-request(a)sigcis.org> wrote: > Send Members mailing list submissions to > members(a)sigcis.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > members-request(a)sigcis.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > members-owner(a)sigcis.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Henry Tom (JHUP executive editor) passed away (Thomas J. Misa) > 2. Re: Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) > (John Paul Laprise) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:56:46 -0600 > From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa(a)umn.edu> > To: sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Henry Tom (JHUP executive editor) passed > away > Message-ID: <663789A6-D41C-43DC-9EE7-CD39B53B5503(a)umn.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Some very sad news. Henry had just retired from JHUP, where -- in 36 years > and 1,000 books -- he'd done much to create publishing opportunities in the > history of technology and, indeed, to move a major press fully behind the > developing field. > > http://www.press.jhu.edu/news/index.html#henry_tom > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:23:10 +0300 > From: John Paul Laprise <j-laprise(a)northwestern.edu> > To: "members(a)sigcis.org" <members(a)sigcis.org> > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 > (IR-12) > Message-ID: > <BFA6A3B65665864DA42236EDFB2E09D72AFFFD4A68(a)nuqmail1.qatar.northwestern.edu> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I have attended a number of these and Tom?s points are well taken. It is a > broad conference with a higher proportion of junior scholars than many other > conferences (as one might expect in a newer field of inquiry). That said, it?s > a very vibrant conference with lots of ideas being thrown around. Brilliant > and not so brilliant. I?ve got to get out to one of these again soon. > > John > > From: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf > Of Thomas Haigh > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:16 AM > To: members(a)sigcis.org > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) > > Below is the CFP for the Association of Internet Researchers. I haven?t been > to one of these, though I almost did in 2009. The scope seems to be creeping > beyond just the Internet and the composition is deliberately > interdisciplinary, so proposals on video game history, etc. and things related > to the conference theme of ?Performance and Participation? might be received > with interest. Note that, unlike history conferences, they expect to receive > full papers at some point. > > Tom > > From: sigtis-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigtis-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf > Of Karine Nahon > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:02 AM > To: sigtis-l(a)asis.org > Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Please distribute as appropriate. > > > > I'm pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for next year's Internet > Research conference. The website for the conference is: http://ir12.aoir.org > . Follow us on twitter at @ir12. > > > > Call for Papers Internet Research 12.0 ? Performance and Participation > > > > The 12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the > Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) > > > > October 10-13, 2011 > > Renaissance Hotel, Seattle > > Seattle, Washington, USA > > > > People perform identities, worry about economic performance, expect better > performance from technologies, and feel pressure to perform as employees or in > other roles in life. We observe or participate in artistic performances, > ritual performances, and the performance of experiments. Join us in > considerations, analyses, and celebrations of the many types of performance > and participation online and in blended online/offline contexts. We look > forward to creative articulations of the many meanings of the term performance > and to the many ways of considering types of participation. > > > > To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals > from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that > address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that > intersect and/or interconnect with the following: > > > > * Creative performances and digital arts > > * Participatory culture and participatory design > > * Critical performance and political participation > > * Identity performance > > * Exclusion from participation > > * Economic performance of Internet-related industries > > * Game performance > > * Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.) > > * Ritual performances and communal participation > > > > Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the > conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes > on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, > cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects > of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome > disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international > collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. We particularly invite > proposals from scholars in the areas of digital arts and digital humanities. > > > > SUBMISSIONS > > > > We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. As in the > past, we welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, > organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single > theme, as well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on a particular topic. > We also invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among > conference delegates. A common form of this type is the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, > but we would also like to encourage other formats, such as OPEN FISHBOWL > SESSIONS. (See the Wikipedia entry under ?Fishbowl (conversation)? for a > description of this format. Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of > interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community.) > > > > DEADLINES > > Submissions Due: 1 March 2011 (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops. Details > below) > > Notification: 1 May 2011 > > Full Papers Submissions Due: 1 July 2011 > > > > NOTE: The submission deadline this year is later than in previous years, but > for this reason, it is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be no extensions to this > date. > > > > SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS > > All papers and presentations will be evaluated in a standard blind peer > review. > > > > Format: > > > > * PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words > > * PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a description of 600-800 words on the panel theme, > plus a 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation. The panel > organizer must assemble these materials for submission, > > * ROUNDTABLE and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature > of the discussion and form of interaction, and listing initial participants. > (In the case of a fishbowl proposal, this will include the name of the > moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.) > > * PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - please submit all workshop proposals via email to > ir12chair(a)aoir.org<mailto:ir12chair@aoir.org>. Workshop proposals should > include names of presenters, and a 1,000-word description. > > > > Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals > on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the > Program Chair. Each individual may present only one paper during the > conference, though they may be listed as a co-author on multiple papers. In > addition to this one presentation, they may also appear on a panel, > roundtable, or performance. > > > > PUBLICATION OF PAPERS > > > > Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2011 deadline will undergo review to be > published in an open-access, online collection, Papers of the Internet > Research Conference (ISSN forthcoming). > > > > Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of > the journal Information, Communication & Society. Authors selected for > submission for this issue will be contacted prior to the conference. > > > > PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS > > > > On October 10, 2011, there will be a limited number of pre-conference > workshops and symposia that will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on > and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference > workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will > invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals > should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, > methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as > well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will > be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to > the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local > opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all > inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as > possible to both the Conference Chair and Program Chair and no later than Marc > h 1, 2011. > > > > CONTACT INFORMATION > > > > * Program Chair: Lori Kendall, Graduate School of Library and Information > Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, email: > loriken(at)illinois(dot)edu > > * Conference Chair: Karine Nahon, Information School, University of > Washington, email: karineb(at)uw(dot)edu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > Dr. Karine Nahon - http://eKarine.org > Associate Professor > The Information School, > University of Washington > Twitter - http://twitter.com/karineb > Office tel. - (206) 685-6668 > > > >

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Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12)
by Thomas Haigh 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Below is the CFP for the Association of Internet Researchers. I haven’t been to one of these, though I almost did in 2009. The scope seems to be creeping beyond just the Internet and the composition is deliberately interdisciplinary, so proposals on video game history, etc. and things related to the conference theme of “Performance and Participation” might be received with interest. Note that, unlike history conferences, they expect to receive full papers at some point. Tom From: sigtis-l-bounces(a)asis.org [mailto:sigtis-l-bounces@asis.org] On Behalf Of Karine Nahon Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:02 AM To: sigtis-l(a)asis.org Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call For Papers: Internet Research 12.0 (IR-12) Hello everyone, Please distribute as appropriate. I'm pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for next year's Internet Research conference. The website for the conference is: http://ir12.aoir.org . Follow us on twitter at @ir12. Call for Papers Internet Research 12.0 – Performance and Participation The 12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) October 10-13, 2011 Renaissance Hotel, Seattle Seattle, Washington, USA People perform identities, worry about economic performance, expect better performance from technologies, and feel pressure to perform as employees or in other roles in life. We observe or participate in artistic performances, ritual performances, and the performance of experiments. Join us in considerations, analyses, and celebrations of the many types of performance and participation online and in blended online/offline contexts. We look forward to creative articulations of the many meanings of the term performance and to the many ways of considering types of participation. To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following: * Creative performances and digital arts * Participatory culture and participatory design * Critical performance and political participation * Identity performance * Exclusion from participation * Economic performance of Internet-related industries * Game performance * Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.) * Ritual performances and communal participation Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. We particularly invite proposals from scholars in the areas of digital arts and digital humanities. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. As in the past, we welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme, as well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on a particular topic. We also invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates. A common form of this type is the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, but we would also like to encourage other formats, such as OPEN FISHBOWL SESSIONS. (See the Wikipedia entry under “Fishbowl (conversation)” for a description of this format. Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community.) DEADLINES Submissions Due: 1 March 2011 (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops. Details below) Notification: 1 May 2011 Full Papers Submissions Due: 1 July 2011 NOTE: The submission deadline this year is later than in previous years, but for this reason, it is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be no extensions to this date. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All papers and presentations will be evaluated in a standard blind peer review. Format: * PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words * PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a description of 600-800 words on the panel theme, plus a 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation. The panel organizer must assemble these materials for submission, * ROUNDTABLE and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the discussion and form of interaction, and listing initial participants. (In the case of a fishbowl proposal, this will include the name of the moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.) * PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - please submit all workshop proposals via email to ir12chair(a)aoir.org. Workshop proposals should include names of presenters, and a 1,000-word description. Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual may present only one paper during the conference, though they may be listed as a co-author on multiple papers. In addition to this one presentation, they may also appear on a panel, roundtable, or performance. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2011 deadline will undergo review to be published in an open-access, online collection, Papers of the Internet Research Conference (ISSN forthcoming). Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society. Authors selected for submission for this issue will be contacted prior to the conference. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS On October 10, 2011, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops and symposia that will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to both the Conference Chair and Program Chair and no later than March 1, 2011. CONTACT INFORMATION * Program Chair: Lori Kendall, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, email: loriken(at)illinois(dot)edu * Conference Chair: Karine Nahon, Information School, University of Washington, email: karineb(at)uw(dot)edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Karine Nahon - http://eKarine.org Associate Professor The Information School, University of Washington Twitter - http://twitter.com/karineb Office tel. - (206) 685-6668

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Henry Tom (JHUP executive editor) passed away
by Thomas J. Misa 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Some very sad news. Henry had just retired from JHUP, where -- in 36 years and 1,000 books -- he'd done much to create publishing opportunities in the history of technology and, indeed, to move a major press fully behind the developing field. http://www.press.jhu.edu/news/index.html#henry_tom

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FW: Knuth vol 4A
by Thomas Haigh 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

[Forwarded from Jim Cortada, who has also been hit with the mysterious mail problem when posting to the list. Given that there are more than 250 people on the list we've probably had enough messages on this topic now. We are experimenting with blog posts for some announcements, so that this kind of back and forth chat can take place among those with particular interest in the topic in the comments under the post. Tom]. Message from Jim Cortada follows: To: William McMillan <wmcmillan(a)emich.edu>, <members(a)sigcis.org> cc: Date: 08:03:10 AM Today Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Knuth vol 4A The conversation about Professor Knuth has been very interesting and all over the place. I sense a tinge of criticism for his work, e.g., doubts if vol. 4 will be published, if it has and how, importance of his work, etc. I think we need to keep something very fundamental in mind: That this gentleman did more to codify important parts of computer science and published more on his chosen subjects of importance than any of us on this siglist have so far. We need to respect this professor's lifetime of accumulated achievement and celebrate every new publication that he produces. How many of you would be able--let alone be willing--to continue contributing after the age of 70? If I were him reading the comments we have published so far, I would feel a bit concerned. One of the purposes of this sigcis group is to create a virtual community to reinforce positively each others' work and to celebrate our accomplishments. I view Professor Knuth as a founding member of the computer science community and feel privileged that he has long demonstrated interest in our work on the history of IT. Let's return the respect and affection that he deserves. Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta(a)us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 Inactive hide details for William McMillan ---01/26/2011 07:35:25 AM---I know you aren't necessarily saying it, Dave, but sayinWilliam McMillan ---01/26/2011 07:35:25 AM---I know you aren't necessarily saying it, Dave, but saying that "...his typesetting work has had more From: William McMillan <wmcmillan(a)emich.edu> To: members(a)sigcis.org Date: 01/26/11 07:35 AM Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Knuth vol 4A Sent by: members-bounces(a)sigcis.org _____ I know you aren't necessarily saying it, Dave, but saying that "...his typesetting work has had more impact on the world than his TAOCP, i.e., algorithm, work" is kind of like saying that building the hanging gardens of Babylon had more impact than inventing algebra. _____ From: "dave walden family" <dave.walden.family(a)gmail.com> To: members(a)sigcis.org Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:02:39 PM Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Knuth vol 4A Between then and now Knuth also did multiple revisions of his first three volumes of TAOCP, put out a volume in the series updating the hypothetical machine he uses for algorithm analysis, has put out eight or so volumes of his collected papers, wrote his volume on Concrete Math, and wrote his bible study books. I have read the opinion of some people that his typesetting work has had more impact on the world than his TAOCP, i.e., algorithm, work. Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members(a)sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/> http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at <http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members> http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members__________________________________ _____________ This email is relayed from members(a)sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/> http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at <http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members> http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members

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