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Conference: "Communicating Science and Technology " 14 & 15 January at the Maison Française d'Oxford
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Might be of interest. Please contact Muriel LeRoux directly. Best wishes Bernardo Bangor University (Wales) --------------------- MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD HISTORY OF SCIENCE HILARY 2011 Conference Friday 14th January from 9.00am to Saturday 15th January 1.15 pm "Communicating Science and Technology France and the United Kingdom, Historical Perspectives" Friday 14th January 2011 5.00 pm: Keynote Lecture with Pr. Alain Fuchs, President of the CNRS "Communicating science today: a Franco-British comparison" Chaired by Pr. Paul Madden, FRS FRSE, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford Saturday 15th January 2011 12.00 pm: Keynote Lecture with Pr. David Edgerton, Imperial College "Communicating and propagandising about science and society: British scientific intellectuals 1930-1970" Chaired by Pietro Corsi, Pr. of the History of Science, University of Oxford Conveners: Muriel Le Roux, CNRS-MFO and Serge Plattard, French Embassy. - ALL WELCOME - Full programme attached. Details also on the website: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/node/1360 Dr Muriel Le Roux Senior Research Fellow History of Science and Technology Maison Française, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE Oxford 44 1865 274 220 muriel.leroux(a)history.ox.ac.uk -- ================== Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernado Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/ -- ================== Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernado Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/

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Alan Kay tribute
by Evan Koblentz 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Found this today: http://vpri.org/pov/ .... it's an anthology of essays from giants of the computer science field, all written for the occasion of Alan Kay's 70th birthday last year. Free download or you can buy a hardcover edition. Excellent reading!

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CBI --> Carl Machover Papers, 1967-2007: Graphics pioneer
by Thomas J. Misa 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Dear colleagues, CBI is very pleased to announce the availability of the Carl Machover Papers, 1967-2007. This is a large and unique collection of rich archival materials providing unparalleled documentation on the emergence of computer graphics. (Sorry for all the superlatives.) Highlights of the 283 cubic feet include . . . Nine series including Job Files, Correspondence, Subject Files, Data Sheets, Research Files, Course Files, General Files, Audiovisual, and Books -- development of the computer graphics industry from the early 1970s to the near-present; Business records of Machover Associates (including extensive correspondence with computer companies, research institutes, universities, etc.), approximately 600 video tapes and CDs, about 300 related books, and long runs of pertinent periodicals; Topics . . . including 3-D imaging, applied and color graphics, ergonomics, games and entertainment, image processing, modeling and animation, output and display devices, electronic and optical publishing, high speed scanning, computer art, global positioning systems, robotics, weather simulation, virtual reality, CAD-CAM, and more; Machover, besides running his consulting company, served in leadership positions for ACM's SIGGRAPH <http://purl.umn.edu/41147>; the Society for Information Display (SID); the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA); Art and Science Collaborations Inc. (ASCI); Computer Graphics Pioneers; and the Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design. It's an unusual collection, virtually complete and intact. Please have a look here: <http://purl.umn.edu/98190> With these larger collections, I often find "hidden gems" using some judicious subject-term searching here <http://discover.lib.umn.edu/findaid/>. Best, Tom

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Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique
by "Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo (shī fu)" 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Might be of interest to members Happy New Year Bernardo Bangor University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Blog de la AMHE* <no-reply(a)wordpress.com <mailto:no-reply@wordpress.com>> Date: 2010/12/26 Subject: [New post] Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique To: oekonomie(a)gmail.com <mailto:oekonomie@gmail.com> <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/author/oekonomie/> Bourses AHTI - Histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/bourses-ahti-histoire-des-tele…> *Manuel Bautista <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/author/oekonomie/>* | 26/12/2010 at 21:31 | Categories: Becas, premios y ofertas de trabajo / Scholarships, prizes and job offers <http://blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/?category_name=becas-premios-y-ofertas-de…> | URL: http://wp.me/pmJoZ-o7 Cher(e)s collègues, Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l'appel à candidatures de l'Association pour l'histoire des télécommunications et de l'informatique, pour son programme de bourses d'études, année 2010-2011. Date limite de dépôt des dossiers: 31 janvier 2011. Cordialement, Léonard Laborie Chargé de recherche au CNRS, UMR Irice *Leonard Laborie* leonard.laborie Bourses d’études universitaires de l'AHTI Année 2010-2011 L'Association pour l’histoire des télécommunications et de l’informatique (AHTI) offre pour l'année 2010-2011 des bourses visant à soutenir des étudiants en Master ou Doctorat, travaillant, au moins partiellement, sur l'histoire des télécommunications, de l'informatique ou de l'électronique, en France ou à l’étranger. Si l'approche historique est privilégiée, des travaux d'autres disciplines sont également recevables : géographie, sociologie, économie, sciences de la communication, gestion, archivistique… Les langues acceptées pour la réalisation du travail sont le français, l'anglais, l'allemand, l'espagnol et l'italien. Un résumé de dix pages, en français, est exigé pour tous les travaux non-francophones. Les projets sont sélectionnés sur dossier par le conseil scientifique de l'Association. Le dossier de candidature doit comporter un curriculum vitae mentionnant les coordonnées complètes du candidat et un projet scientifique. Ce dernier doit comprendre : une présentation du projet et de ses problématiques, une bibliographie et si possible un état des sources. Le dossier sera accompagné d'une lettre de motivation du candidat et d'une lettre de recommandation provenant de son directeur de recherches. Les dossiers doivent être adressés par courrier électronique à l'AHTI au plus tard pour le 31 janvier 2011: ahti Association pour l'Histoire des Télécommunications et de l’Informatique 46, rue Barrault 75013 PARIS tél 01 45 81 81 26 Courriel : ahti http://www.ahti.fr <http://www.ahti.fr/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/blogdelaamhe.wordpress.com/1495/> WordPress WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> | Thanks for flying with WordPress!

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CFP: special issue of IEEE Software on "Climate Change: Software, Science and Society"
by Paul Edwards 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Please forward widely. I'm a co-editor on this special issue; happy to answer any questions about scope. - Paul Edwards IEEE Software Special Issue on Climate Change: Software, Science and Society Submission Deadline: 8 April 2011 Publication (tentative): Nov/Dec 2011 A vast software infrastructure underpins our ability to understand climate change, assess the implications, and form suitable policy responses. This software infrastructure allows large teams of scientists to construct very complex models out of many interlocking parts, and further allows scientists, activists and policymakers to share data, explore scenarios, and validate assumptions. The extent of this infrastructure is often invisible (as infrastructure often is, until it breaks down), both to those who rely on it, and to interested observers, such as politicians, journalists, and the general public. Yet weaknesses in this software (whether real or imaginary) will impede our ability to make progress on what may be the biggest challenge faced by humanity in the 21st Century. This special issue of IEEE Software will explore the challenges in developing the software infrastructure for understanding and responding to climate change. Our aim is to help bridge the gap between the software community and the climate science community, by soliciting a collection of articles that explain the nature and extent of this software infrastructure, the technical challenges it poses, and the current state-of-the-art. We invite papers covering any of the software challenges involved in creating this technical infrastructure, but please note that we are not soliciting papers that discuss the validity of the science itself, or which take sides in the policy debate on climate change. We especially welcome review papers, which explain the current state-of-the-art in some specific aspect of climate software in an accessible way, and roadmap papers, which describe the challenges in the construction and validation of this software. Suitable topics for the special issue include (but are not restricted to): - Construction, verification and validation of computational models and data analysis tools used in climate science; - Frameworks, coupling strategies and software integration issues for earth system modeling; - Challenges of scale and complexity in climate software, including high data volumes and throughputs, massive parallelization and performance issues, numerical complexity, and coupling complexity; - Challenges of longevity and evolution of climate models codes, including legacy code, backwards compatibility, and computational reproducibility; - Experiences with model ensembles and model inter-comparison projects, particularly as these relate to software verification and validation; - Meta-data standards and data management for earth system data, including the challenge of making models and data self-describing; - Coordination of cross-disciplinary teams in the development of integrated assessment and decision support systems; - The role of open science and usable simulation tools in increasing public accessibility of climate science and public participation in climate policy discussions; - Case studies and lessons learned from application of software engineering techniques within climate science. Manuscripts must not exceed 4,700 words including figures and tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme's scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. Be sure to include the name of the theme you are submitting for. Articles should have a practical orientation, and be written in a style accessible to software practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. Questions? For more information about the special issue, contact the Guest Editors: Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada (sme(a)cs.toronto.edu) Reinhard Budich, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany (reinhard.budich(a)zmaw.de) Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan, USA (pne(a)umich.edu) V. Balaji, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA. (balaji(a)princeton.edu) For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm For submission details: software(a)computer.org To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information and History Director, UM Program on Science, Technology & Society A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) University of Michigan School of Information 3439 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 764-2617 (office) (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu

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UK Resources
by Roger Johnson 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Colleagues James Sumner has done us a great service by compiling his list. I would like to propose two items for his list both linked to Andrew Booth at Birkbeck College, London University. I have published a paper this year about him Andrew Booth - Britain's Other "Fourth Man" by Roger G Johnson in History of Computing - Learning from the Past, Proceedings of IFIP 9.7 HC 2010 edited by Arthur Tatnell published by Springer, IFIP ACT 325, 2010 pp.26-37. Short History of the School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck College, May 2008, Birkbeck College, pp32. This contains a number of photos and extended description of Booth's contribution as a computer pioneer and also his contribution to the academic community and the founding of the BCS. Good wishes Roger Johnson

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 6, Issue 15
by Dag Spicer 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

I have updated my blog to reflect recent events at CHM. See: http://www.sigcis.org/blog/578 Only a few more weeks until opening--Jan 10, 2001... Or 01.10.11 Dag

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Computer History Entertainment
by David Greelish 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi everyone, If you have never checked out any of the shows that I produce, please consider checking one or more out over the holidays. I just posted the new Retro Computing Roundtable podcast today. Find it here - http://bit.ly/iazQ2S with links to the others at the top of the page. There is also - "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast & the Classic Computing Show video podcast. I'm like the Leo Laporte of computer history podcasts! Well, OK, so I'm not as professional, and I don't have the years of radio and television experience, nor the equipment, or the money . . . OK, OK, I stink compared to Leo, I'm nothing like him! ; ) They're good shows. Have a great holiday season. Best, David Greelish, Computer Historian Classic Computing The Home of Computer History Nostalgia http://www.classiccomputing.com Classic Computing Blog Classic Computing Show video podcast "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast Retro Computing Roundtable podcast Historical Computer Society Classic Computing Expo 1.0 - planning for sometime late 2011!

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more blog posts
by Chris McDonald 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Dear SIGCISers, I've put up several more blog posts at http://www.sigcis.org since I last mailed the list, and Marie Hicks has added one as well. I probably won't write another until after the New Year. For others also on break, enjoy your holiday! Chris McDonald

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UK resource guide now completed -- from Jame Sumner
by Thomas Haigh 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

[Forwarded from James Sumner -- james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk.] Dear listmembers The full version of "History of computing in the UK: a resource guide" is now up on the SIGCIS site, joining Tom Haigh's more general resource guide and Chigusa Kita's Japanese listing. Please take a look: http://www.sigcis.org/britain Suggested additions and corrections are very welcome -- as are comments on the arrangement and scope. Putting together this kind of finding aid always involves a lot of subjective decisions about what to include and how to present it. For the record, my ground rules have been - to offer starting-points for researchers, rather than trying to be comprehensive - to follow the shape of the literature, rather than trying to give balanced coverage to areas where not much has been written - to focus on secondary sources, listing primary sources only when they're particularly rewarding and/or the secondary source base is particularly light - not to exclude anything purely on the grounds that it's difficult to access. I hope I've managed to come up with something most people will find useful. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed material so far! Best James On 17/12/2010 18:57, Thomas Haigh wrote: > Hello James, > > Did you try to send the message from the new account? I don't remember > seeing it... > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:14 AM > To: Thomas Haigh > Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > > Good idea. Page has been updated; I'll announce it to the list now. > > Best > James > > On 01/12/2010 21:17, Thomas Haigh wrote: >> OK. I added this address to the list, but turned off mail delivery for it > so >> it should be good for sending but will not fill up with extra copies of > the >> list messages. >> >> Tom >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:44 AM >> To: Thomas Haigh >> Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >> >> Hi Tom >> >> Sorry -- I'd forgotten this detail. But I doubt I can get anything done >> to fix it at this end. I'll drop a line to IT services, whose typical >> approach to anything non-obvious is to reassign it to someone I can't >> contact directly and ignore it forever. >> >> There's james(a)jbsumner.com , I suppose -- I try not to use this much, >> but it will do the job. Please set it up as accepted. >> >> Thanks! >> James >> >> On 30/11/2010 22:19, Thomas Haigh wrote: >>> Hello James, >>> >>> What I recall finding when we checked before is that this was a case of >> your >>> email server being unable to find the sigcis.org domain or communicate >> with >>> the SMTP receiver running on it (failing on RCPT as it tries to establish >>> the recipient) and therefore refusing to transmit the message. >>> >>> It is not that the SIGCIS listserv receiving the message and rejecting it >>> for some reason. That makes it much harder to fix, as it's a problem that >> is >>> taking place in the interaction between the two servers that is for some >>> reason only afflicting your email server and maybe a few others. >>> >>> I am cc'ing Brent to see if he has any ideas. >>> >>> As a workaround do you have another email account you can use for SIGCIS? >> I >>> can manually add it as an accepted sender to both lists. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: James Sumner [mailto:james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk] >>> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:07 PM >>> To: Thomas Haigh >>> Subject: Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >>> >>> Tom, >>> >>> This is evidently a persistent problem. Checking my mail archives shows >>> that I haven't been able to get a message through since July. >>> >>> Please could you forward the message? >>> >>> Thanks >>> James >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:09 +0000 >>> From: Mail Delivery System<Mailer-Daemon(a)tranquility.mcc.ac.uk> >>> To:<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> >>> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. >>> >>> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>> >>> exec(a)sigcis.org >>> SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT > TO:<exec(a)sigcis.org>: >>> host mailstore1.secureserver.net [72.167.238.201]: >>> 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected exec(a)sigcis.org >>> >>> ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ >>> >>> Return-path:<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> Received: from rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.196]) >>> by tranquility.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) >>> (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) >>> (envelope-from<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk>) >>> id 1PMoPm-000A6r-2u >>> for exec(a)sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:06 +0000 >>> Received: from [82.152.251.77] (port=4690 helo=[10.0.0.11]) >>> by rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) >>> (Exim 4.69) >>> (envelope-from<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk>) >>> id 1PMoPl-0004YS-Tr >>> for exec(a)sigcis.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:05 +0000 >>> Message-ID:<4CF2C3C4.8020902(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:04 +0000 >>> From: James Sumner<james.sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk> >>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) >>> Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 >>> MIME-Version: 1.0 >>> To: exec(a)sigcis.org >>> Subject: UK resource guide again >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>> X-Authenticated-Sender: James Sumner from ([10.0.0.11]) >> [82.152.251.77]:4690 >>> X-Authenticated-From: James.Sumner(a)manchester.ac.uk >>> >>> Dear all >>> >>> As (repeatedly) promised, a revised version is up as a draft -- not >>> publicly visible -- at >>> http://www.sigcis.org/node/113 >>> >>> Comments welcome. Do we think this is now in a fit state to be promoted >>> to the membership? (If so, could someone please tell me how to make it >>> appear as a link from the main site?) >>> >>> Best >>> James >>> >> >

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