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Faculty position in Information Science, Cornell University (fwd)
by Paul Edwards 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Information Science at Cornell (www.infosci.cornell.edu) is an interdisciplinary department within the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (www.cis.cornell.edu) bringing together from across the campus those interested in studying information systems in their social, cultural, economic, historical, legal, and political contexts. We are seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position, broadly in the area of information policy. Areas of interest may include: - the sociology or anthropology of information policy; - contemporary debates (e.g., privacy, net neutrality, security); - the interactions and tensions between the legal and the technological; - the politics and/or economics of information institutions; - the implications of information policy for design or practice. Applications should be received by November 15, 2010, but we will begin processing applications in early November. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The application package should include a curriculum vita, brief statements of research and teaching interests, and at least three letters of reference. Writing samples, or links to their online counterparts, are encouraged. Additional information on the job openings and application process is available at the following application website. [http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Cornell/IS] Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, is an inclusive, dynamic, and innovative Ivy League university and New York's land-grant institution. Its staff, faculty, and students impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas and best practices to further the university's mission of teaching, research, and outreach. For assistance send questions to: fac_recruit(a)infosci.cornell.edu Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and Educator and welcomes applications from women and ethnic minorities. http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/jobs/index.html

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Faculty position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities at UM School of Information
by Paul Edwards 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

please forward widely! Faculty Position in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities Rank: Assistant Professor The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks an outstanding tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level to help establish a vigorous program of research and teaching in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities. New technologies and digital environments offer transformative opportunities for the humanities. At the same time, they bring unheralded challenges for accountability, authority, representation, intelligibility, and the assessment of value. Candidates for this position should have a demonstrated research record investigating topics of concern in the digital humanities. Potential areas of research include (but are not limited to) virtual collaboration in the humanities; design of interactive humanities-related media; credibility and authority of digital content; ethnography or history of digital culture; and curation of digital resources. This position is part of a Digital Environments faculty cluster aimed at transforming humanities scholarship and engaging faculty and students in new modes of research, teaching, and learning. The Digital Environments cluster represents a partnership between the School of Information; the departments of English Language and Literature and Communication Studies; and the Program in American Culture, each of which is hiring a new faculty member through independent searches. Candidates for the School of Information position will engage with these new faculty as well as colleagues across the university, through such venues as research projects, a speaker series, reading groups, and teaching initiatives. For more information or to apply, please visit http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/digital_environments.htm. Application letters for this position must discuss the candidate's ideas for interacting with the cluster group. Before doing so, please read the full description of the Digital Environments cluster (see full job description on our website for details). The mission of the School of Information, where this position will reside, is to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways. The School is home to a dynamic and vibrant research and teaching program, with 35 FTE faculty, 49 doctoral students, and 404 students in its professional program, the Master of Science in Information. In partnership with other units, we recently launched a new undergraduate informatics major. The School of Information is internationally recognized for its research strengths in social informatics, network analysis and text mining, human computer interaction, digital archives, cyberinfrastructure, digital preservation, and information seeking, sharing and use. More about the School, its vision, and its activities can be found at the School's website: http://www.si.umich.edu Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual budget of more than $1.4 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.57 billion. Qualifications: Ph.D. (or nearing completion) in a relevant area, such as literature, history, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, design, information science, library science, archival studies, or technical fields involving significant interactions with the humanities Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, creative activity, and cultural diversity Review of applications will begin Nov. 1 and continue until the position is filled. ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Professor of Information 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): five.sentenc.es 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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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2
by Dag Spicer 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

Thank you Bill. On the issue of Proceedings generally... is there any potential traction for having SHOT Proceedings, with presented papers in final publishable form, printed? I know this is a lot of work for someone but I feel we're losing something by not capturing SHOT conferences, which after all, are snapshots of the profession that are often hard to capture otherwise. d On 10/2/10 9:00 AM, "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. Re: Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 (Dag Spicer) > 2. Re: Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 (Bill Aspray) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:59:12 -0700 > From: Dag Spicer <spicer(a)computerhistory.org> > To: <members(a)sigcis.org> > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 > Message-ID: <C8CBA7C0.3B598%spicer(a)computerhistory.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Will there published proceedings? > > dag > > > On 10/1/10 9:00 AM, "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. [Fwd: International Conference: History and Philosophy of >> Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] (Petri Paju) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:51 +0300 >> From: Petri Paju <petpaju(a)utu.fi> >> To: sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> >> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] [Fwd: International Conference: History and >> Philosophy of Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] >> Message-ID: <4CA5C1BB.8010403(a)utu.fi> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: International Conference: History and Philosophy of Computing, >> Gent, 7-10/11/2011 >> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:55:12 +0200 >> From: gprimiero(a)libero.it <gprimiero(a)LIBERO.IT> >> >> >> ----APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS-------- >> >> >> International Conference >> >> History and Philosophy of Computing >> >> November 7 - 10, 2011 >> >> Gent University, Belgium >> >> http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be >> >> First announcement >> >> >> From 7-10 November 2011 the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science >> organizes an International Conference on the History and Philosophy of >> Computing. >> >> >> AIMS AND SCOPE >> >> The computing sciences collect the most diverse complex of experts: >> philosophers, logicians, historians, mathematicians, computer >> scientists, programmers, engineers. The number of involved subjects >> grows accordingly: from foundational issues to their applications; from >> philosophical questions to problems of realizability and design of >> specifications; from theoretical studies of computational barriers to >> the relevance of machines for educational purposes. >> >> A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to >> clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also >> provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the >> future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the >> fundamental problems of computing, going from the limits of the >> ?mathematicizing power of homo sapiens?to the design of feasible and >> concrete models of interactive processes. >> >> The aim of this conference is to bring together these two streams: we >> are strongly convinced that an interplay between the researchers with an >> interest in the history and philosophy of computing can crucially add to >> the maturity of the field. >> >> We plan to have up to 30 contributed papers to be presented at the >> conference. We welcome contributions from logicians and philosophers or >> historians of science as well as from philosophically and/or >> historically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. >> >> Topics of the conference include: >> >> The birth, evolution and future of computation >> * >> Philosophical, foundational and practical issues of >> computability in logic, mathematics and computer science >> * >> Computation in the sciences >> * >> >> >> More details on deadlines and submissions can be found at: >> >> http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be >> computing.conference(a)ugent.be >> >> >> INVITED SPEAKERS: >> >> Bill Aspray (University of Texas) >> >> Martin Davis (New York University) >> >> Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) >> >> Sybille Kr?mer (Freie Universit?t Berlin) >> >> Giovanni Sambin (Universita' di Padova) >> >> Raymond Turner (University of Essex) >> >> >> CONFERENCE CHAIRS: >> >> Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero >> >> >> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: >> >> G. Alberts (Amsterdam) >> >> S. Artemov (New York) >> >> M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) >> >> A. Eden (Essex) >> >> L. Floridi (Oxford & Hertfordshire) >> >> R. Kahle (Lisbon) >> >> B. Loewe (Amsterdam) >> >> J. Meheus (Ghent) >> >> E. Myin (Antwerp) >> >> S. Negri (Helsinki) >> >> V. de Paiva (Palo Alto) >> >> S. Smets (Groningen) >> >> G. Sundholm (Leiden) >> >> C. Toffalori (Camerino) >> >> J.P. van Bendegem (Brussels) >> >> M. van Dyck (Ghent) >> >> B. van Kerkhove (Brussels & Hasselt) >> >> E. Weber (Ghent) >> >> >> >> SUPPORT >> >> A number of Students Grants will be available through our Sponsor and >> Supporting Associations. More details to come on the webpage of the >> conference. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Members mailing list >> Members(a)sigcis.org >> http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members >> >> >> End of Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 >> ************************************* > > -- > Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum > Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing > 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 > Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 > > Join the R|Evolution: > http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:33:57 -0500 > From: Bill Aspray <bill(a)ischool.utexas.edu> > To: Dag Spicer <spicer(a)COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG> > Cc: members(a)sigcis.org > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 > Message-ID: <92388B02-03D8-4997-8E48-61C0E54D47C7(a)ischool.utexas.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > I believe they are negotiating with a journal to publish the > proceedings. No final word yet. > > -Bill > > On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Dag Spicer wrote: > >> Will there published proceedings? >> >> dag >> >> >> On 10/1/10 9:00 AM, "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. [Fwd: International Conference: History and Philosophy of >>> Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] (Petri Paju) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:51 +0300 >>> From: Petri Paju <petpaju(a)utu.fi> >>> To: sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> >>> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] [Fwd: International Conference: History and >>> Philosophy of Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] >>> Message-ID: <4CA5C1BB.8010403(a)utu.fi> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed >>> >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: International Conference: History and Philosophy of >>> Computing, >>> Gent, 7-10/11/2011 >>> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:55:12 +0200 >>> From: gprimiero(a)libero.it <gprimiero(a)LIBERO.IT> >>> >>> >>> ----APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS-------- >>> >>> >>> International Conference >>> >>> History and Philosophy of Computing >>> >>> November 7 - 10, 2011 >>> >>> Gent University, Belgium >>> >>> http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be >>> >>> First announcement >>> >>> >>> From 7-10 November 2011 the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of >>> Science >>> organizes an International Conference on the History and Philosophy >>> of >>> Computing. >>> >>> >>> AIMS AND SCOPE >>> >>> The computing sciences collect the most diverse complex of experts: >>> philosophers, logicians, historians, mathematicians, computer >>> scientists, programmers, engineers. The number of involved subjects >>> grows accordingly: from foundational issues to their applications; >>> from >>> philosophical questions to problems of realizability and design of >>> specifications; from theoretical studies of computational barriers to >>> the relevance of machines for educational purposes. >>> >>> A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps >>> to >>> clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also >>> provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in >>> the >>> future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the >>> fundamental problems of computing, going from the limits of the >>> ?mathematicizing power of homo sapiens?to the design of feasible and >>> concrete models of interactive processes. >>> >>> The aim of this conference is to bring together these two streams: we >>> are strongly convinced that an interplay between the researchers >>> with an >>> interest in the history and philosophy of computing can crucially >>> add to >>> the maturity of the field. >>> >>> We plan to have up to 30 contributed papers to be presented at the >>> conference. We welcome contributions from logicians and >>> philosophers or >>> historians of science as well as from philosophically and/or >>> historically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. >>> >>> Topics of the conference include: >>> >>> The birth, evolution and future of computation >>> * >>> Philosophical, foundational and practical issues of >>> computability in logic, mathematics and computer science >>> * >>> Computation in the sciences >>> * >>> >>> >>> More details on deadlines and submissions can be found at: >>> >>> http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be >>> computing.conference(a)ugent.be >>> >>> >>> INVITED SPEAKERS: >>> >>> Bill Aspray (University of Texas) >>> >>> Martin Davis (New York University) >>> >>> Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) >>> >>> Sybille Kr?mer (Freie Universit?t Berlin) >>> >>> Giovanni Sambin (Universita' di Padova) >>> >>> Raymond Turner (University of Essex) >>> >>> >>> CONFERENCE CHAIRS: >>> >>> Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero >>> >>> >>> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: >>> >>> G. Alberts (Amsterdam) >>> >>> S. Artemov (New York) >>> >>> M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) >>> >>> A. Eden (Essex) >>> >>> L. Floridi (Oxford & Hertfordshire) >>> >>> R. Kahle (Lisbon) >>> >>> B. Loewe (Amsterdam) >>> >>> J. Meheus (Ghent) >>> >>> E. Myin (Antwerp) >>> >>> S. Negri (Helsinki) >>> >>> V. de Paiva (Palo Alto) >>> >>> S. Smets (Groningen) >>> >>> G. Sundholm (Leiden) >>> >>> C. Toffalori (Camerino) >>> >>> J.P. van Bendegem (Brussels) >>> >>> M. van Dyck (Ghent) >>> >>> B. van Kerkhove (Brussels & Hasselt) >>> >>> E. Weber (Ghent) >>> >>> >>> >>> SUPPORT >>> >>> A number of Students Grants will be available through our Sponsor and >>> Supporting Associations. More details to come on the webpage of the >>> conference. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Members mailing list >>> Members(a)sigcis.org >>> http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members >>> >>> >>> End of Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 >>> ************************************* >> >> -- >> Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum >> Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing >> 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 >> Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 >> >> Join the R|Evolution: >> http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> and you can change your subscription options at >> http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Members mailing list > Members(a)sigcis.org > http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > > > End of Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2 > ************************************* -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Join the R|Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1
by Dag Spicer 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Will there published proceedings? dag On 10/1/10 9:00 AM, "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. [Fwd: International Conference: History and Philosophy of > Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] (Petri Paju) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:51 +0300 > From: Petri Paju <petpaju(a)utu.fi> > To: sigcis <members(a)sigcis.org> > Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] [Fwd: International Conference: History and > Philosophy of Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011] > Message-ID: <4CA5C1BB.8010403(a)utu.fi> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: International Conference: History and Philosophy of Computing, > Gent, 7-10/11/2011 > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:55:12 +0200 > From: gprimiero(a)libero.it <gprimiero(a)LIBERO.IT> > > > ----APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS-------- > > > International Conference > > History and Philosophy of Computing > > November 7 - 10, 2011 > > Gent University, Belgium > > http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be > > First announcement > > > From 7-10 November 2011 the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science > organizes an International Conference on the History and Philosophy of > Computing. > > > AIMS AND SCOPE > > The computing sciences collect the most diverse complex of experts: > philosophers, logicians, historians, mathematicians, computer > scientists, programmers, engineers. The number of involved subjects > grows accordingly: from foundational issues to their applications; from > philosophical questions to problems of realizability and design of > specifications; from theoretical studies of computational barriers to > the relevance of machines for educational purposes. > > A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to > clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also > provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the > future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the > fundamental problems of computing, going from the limits of the > ?mathematicizing power of homo sapiens?to the design of feasible and > concrete models of interactive processes. > > The aim of this conference is to bring together these two streams: we > are strongly convinced that an interplay between the researchers with an > interest in the history and philosophy of computing can crucially add to > the maturity of the field. > > We plan to have up to 30 contributed papers to be presented at the > conference. We welcome contributions from logicians and philosophers or > historians of science as well as from philosophically and/or > historically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. > > Topics of the conference include: > > The birth, evolution and future of computation > * > Philosophical, foundational and practical issues of > computability in logic, mathematics and computer science > * > Computation in the sciences > * > > > More details on deadlines and submissions can be found at: > > http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be > computing.conference(a)ugent.be > > > INVITED SPEAKERS: > > Bill Aspray (University of Texas) > > Martin Davis (New York University) > > Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) > > Sybille Kr?mer (Freie Universit?t Berlin) > > Giovanni Sambin (Universita' di Padova) > > Raymond Turner (University of Essex) > > > CONFERENCE CHAIRS: > > Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero > > > PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: > > G. Alberts (Amsterdam) > > S. Artemov (New York) > > M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) > > A. Eden (Essex) > > L. Floridi (Oxford & Hertfordshire) > > R. Kahle (Lisbon) > > B. Loewe (Amsterdam) > > J. Meheus (Ghent) > > E. Myin (Antwerp) > > S. Negri (Helsinki) > > V. de Paiva (Palo Alto) > > S. Smets (Groningen) > > G. Sundholm (Leiden) > > C. Toffalori (Camerino) > > J.P. van Bendegem (Brussels) > > M. van Dyck (Ghent) > > B. van Kerkhove (Brussels & Hasselt) > > E. Weber (Ghent) > > > > SUPPORT > > A number of Students Grants will be available through our Sponsor and > Supporting Associations. More details to come on the webpage of the > conference. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Members mailing list > Members(a)sigcis.org > http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > > > End of Members Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 > ************************************* -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Join the R|Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory

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[Fwd: International Conference: History and Philosophy of Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011]
by Petri Paju 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: International Conference: History and Philosophy of Computing, Gent, 7-10/11/2011 Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:55:12 +0200 From: gprimiero(a)libero.it <gprimiero(a)LIBERO.IT> ----APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS-------- International Conference History and Philosophy of Computing November 7 - 10, 2011 Gent University, Belgium http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be First announcement From 7-10 November 2011 the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science organizes an International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing. AIMS AND SCOPE The computing sciences collect the most diverse complex of experts: philosophers, logicians, historians, mathematicians, computer scientists, programmers, engineers. The number of involved subjects grows accordingly: from foundational issues to their applications; from philosophical questions to problems of realizability and design of specifications; from theoretical studies of computational barriers to the relevance of machines for educational purposes. A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing, going from the limits of the “mathematicizing power of homo sapiens”to the design of feasible and concrete models of interactive processes. The aim of this conference is to bring together these two streams: we are strongly convinced that an interplay between the researchers with an interest in the history and philosophy of computing can crucially add to the maturity of the field. We plan to have up to 30 contributed papers to be presented at the conference. We welcome contributions from logicians and philosophers or historians of science as well as from philosophically and/or historically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. Topics of the conference include: The birth, evolution and future of computation * Philosophical, foundational and practical issues of computability in logic, mathematics and computer science * Computation in the sciences * More details on deadlines and submissions can be found at: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be computing.conference(a)ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: Bill Aspray (University of Texas) Martin Davis (New York University) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin) Giovanni Sambin (Universita' di Padova) Raymond Turner (University of Essex) CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: G. Alberts (Amsterdam) S. Artemov (New York) M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) A. Eden (Essex) L. Floridi (Oxford & Hertfordshire) R. Kahle (Lisbon) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) J. Meheus (Ghent) E. Myin (Antwerp) S. Negri (Helsinki) V. de Paiva (Palo Alto) S. Smets (Groningen) G. Sundholm (Leiden) C. Toffalori (Camerino) J.P. van Bendegem (Brussels) M. van Dyck (Ghent) B. van Kerkhove (Brussels & Hasselt) E. Weber (Ghent) SUPPORT A number of Students Grants will be available through our Sponsor and Supporting Associations. More details to come on the webpage of the conference.

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SHOT Meeting: Program highlights for History of Computing
by Thomas Haigh 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Hello, Below is a summary of the history of computing material on the program at SHOT next week useful for those of you attending, and hopefully of general interest to those not able to make it this year. The main program doesnt include as many sessions devoted primarily or exclusively to the history of computing as the 2007 or 2008 meetings did, but there are a number of closely related panels and individual papers scattered through the meeting. Plus, of course, our full day meeting on Sunday. Elsewhere on the program I notice a new, more constrained 90 minute format for all the panels and a surge of interest in space and cold war topics. The Official SIGCIS Events are · 8:30-10:00am on Friday, Oct 1: Panel on Networks As Places in the History of Computing: · 12:30-2:00pm on Friday, Oct 1: SIGCIS Lunch Meeting (Book auction, award presentation, etc) · 9:00am to 6pm on Sunday, Oct 3: SIGCIS 2010 Workshop: Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing Below is a detailed guide, including details on all sessions with history of computing/IT content. Tom Haigh Friday: 8:30-10:00am 7: Networks as Places in the History of Computing Thomas Haigh University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Organizer & Chair Jeffrey Tang, James Madison University, Commentator · Sue Thomas De Montfort University Shaping the Landscapes of Cyberspace: West Coast Metaphors · J Carles Maixé-Altés University of A Coruña, Spain: Diverging Paths to a Networked World: Computerizing Spanish and British Savings Banks, 1965-90 · Ksenia Tatarchenko Princeton University Not Lost in Translation: How English Became the Common Language of Computer Science (1960-74) Friday: 2pm-3:30 18: The Shock of the Old, includes · Matt Thomas, University of Iowa Low-Tech Solutions to High-Tech Problems: The Curious Case of the Moleskin Notebook (Not computing, but IT broadly conceived) Friday: 2pm-3:30 21: Author Meets Critics: Paul Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Organizer Nina Wormbs, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Chair · Sverker Sörlin Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden · James R Fleming Colby College · Paul Edwards University of Michigan Respondent Saturday 8:30-10am 22: T&C: Technology & (Counter) Culture Susan Schmidt Horning, St Johns University Chair & Commentator · Mark Clark, Oregon Institute of Technology, To Hell With the Grid: Home Power Magazine and the Ideology of Alternative Energy · Peter Sachs Collopy (Robinson), University of Pennsylvania, Guerilla Television and the Utopian Promise of Video · Sungook Hong Seoul National University, S Korea,The Artist as Engineer: Nam June Paiks Video Synthesizer and His Video Art Saturday 8:30-10am 23: Users and Standards includes · Emily Goodmann Northwestern University Information?: Telephone Books, Information Operators & The Computational Telephone Saturday 8:30-10am 27: Standards, Technology, and Power Includes · Jonathan C Hall Columbia University From Free Software to Open Source: Standardization of a Technical Term in Pursuit of New Markets Saturday 10:30-12:00 32: A Bankers Utopia: Dreams and Realities of the Cashless/Checkless Society Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo University of Leicester, United Kingdom: Organizer Jeff Yost Charles Babbage Institute: Chair Paul Thomes Aachen, Germany: Commentator · Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, Tobias Karlsson, and Björn Thodenius, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Lund University, Sweden, and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden · Origins of Cashless Payments: Direct to Account Payments, Cash Machines and Online Technology in the UK and Sweden · David Stearns Seattle Pacific University Conflicting Dreams of a Cashless Society: VISAs Entrée and Expectations of Electronic Funds Transfer · Ian Martin Open University, United Kingdom, Too Far Ahead of its Time: Britain, Burroughs and Realtime Banking in the 1960s · Olga Pantelidou National Technical, University of Athens, Greece, Automating Check Processing: How ERMA Altered Bank of Americas Network Typology and Branch Architecture, 1955-66 Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm 37: Geek Worlds Jonathan Coopersmith Texas A&M University: Chair & Commentator · Nick Muntean University of Texas-Austin, The Ideology of Consumer Electronics · Matthew Schandler, Lehigh University, Recycling Innovation: Nintendos Conservative Approach to Research and Development · Elizabeth Lenaghan (Robinson), Northwestern University Kindling Consumption: How Amazons E-reader Marketing Refashions Readers Saturday, 4:00-5:30pm 42: At The Office Jennifer K Alexander, University of Minnesota: Chair & Commentator · Andrew Mamo (Robinson), UC-Berkeley Affect and Automation: Middle-Class Engagements with Mid-Century American Technology · Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Danish Museum of Science & Technology, Denmark, Its Another Landscape of Communication: New Technologies in Use in the Office · Colrain M Zuppo (Robinson), Indiana State University/Bowling Green State University, Organizations as Consumers of Human Capital Via Technology: Evolution of the Boundaryless Workplace ALL DAY SUNDAY: SIGCIS 2010 Workshop: Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing Stream A (room TBA) Stream B (Room TBA) 9:00-10:30 Opening Plenary: * Introduction to the Workshop and its Theme by Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * Keynote Address: "Friction: Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possibility in the History of Information Infrastructures" by Paul Edwards, University of Michigan 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-12:00 Roundtable: Computers, Information and Society in the Classroom * Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology (chair & organizer) * Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania * Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by general discussion). Consolidated file of syllabi <http://www.sigcis.org/files/WS2010Syllabi.pdf> now available for download. Examining the Interaction of Speculative Literature and Computing: Toward a Research Agenda * David L. Ferro, Weber State University (chair & organizer) <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Ferro.pdf> full text * Janet Abbate, Virgina Tech <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Abbate.pdf> full text * Eric G. Swedin, Weber State University <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Swedin%20and%20Ferro.pdf> full text * Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Haigh.pdf> full text (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by general discussion) 12:00-1:30 Lunch break (group lunch option TBA) 1:30-3:30 Dissertations In Progress Chair/Commentator: Paul Edwards, University of Michigan * <http://www.sigcis.org/dp1> The Akademgorodok Computing Center (1958-1990) Ksenia Tatachenko, Princeton University. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Tatachenko.pdf> full text * <http://www.sigcis.org/dp2> Digital Equipment's Rise and Fall, Could it Have Been Avoided? Dave Goodwin, Birkbeck College London. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Goodwin.pdf> full text * <http://www.sigcis.org/dp3> A History and Ethnography of the Cocoa Software Community. Hansen Hsu, Cornell University. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Hsu2.pdf> full text * <http://www.sigcis.org/dp4> Connecting Minds in a Multimedia Episteme: The Academic Supercomputer Centers and the Construction an Advanced Cognitive Infrastructure for the U.S. Research Community: 1983-1993 Kevin Walsh, University of California, San Diego. (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated dissertation proposals, to be discussed in turn by workshop participants) Traditional Papers: Teaching & Showing Chair: Olga Pantelidou, National Technical University of Athens Commentator: Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University * <http://www.sigcis.org/t4> The PLATO Computer-Based Education System: Teacher's Tool or Teacher? Christopher McDonald, Princeton University. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t6> Car Navigation Systems A History of Associative Clusters. Tristan Thielmann, University of Siegen. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t7> A Material History of Bits. Jean-François Blanchette, UCLA. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t9> Museums and the Material Culture of Video Games. Petrina Foti, Smithsonian NMAH. (4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) 3:30-4:00 Coffee break (Demonstration of the "IT History Society Archival Database," Jeffery Stein, IT History Society). 4:00-6:00 Works in Progress Chair/Commentator: TBA * <http://www.sigcis.org/wp1> Multi-sided markets and on-line distribution of working papers: A brief history of NEP, 1993-2005. Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester and Thomas Krichel (Long Island University & Novosibirsk State University, Russia). * <http://www.sigcis.org/wp2> Making Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeleys promotion of logical machines. Mai Sugimoto, Kyoto University. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Sugimoto.pdf> full text * <http://www.sigcis.org/wp4> Technological system or military-industrial-complex the diffusion of numerically controlled machine tools in Sweden, 19501970. Gustav Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Sjöblom.pdf> full text * <http://www.sigcis.org/wp5> Meta Filter: Coming to Agreement with Interactive Computer Technology. Sharon Irish, UIUC. <http://www.sigcis.org/files/Irish.pdf> full text (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated papers, to be discussed in turn by workshop participants) Traditional Papers: Place & Space Chair: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina. Commentator: Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t2> The Material History of Digital Electronics: The Development of Silicon Manufacturing Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor. David C. Brock, Chemical Heritage Foundation & Christophe Lecuyer, University of California. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t5> The World Looks to Britain: Technology Transfer, Heterogeneous Engineering, and British Computing Companies Attempt to Capture the Indian Market, 1955-1965. Marie Hicks, Duke University. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t8> Wat' Forever: Computing Education at the University of Waterloo. Scott M. Campbell, University of Waterloo. * <http://www.sigcis.org/t10> Materiality, modernity and space: The British banks and their computer centres, 19611963. Ian Martin, Open University & University of Manchester. (4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) Dinner: An optional group dinner will be held following the workshop for those eager to continue conversation over food.

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SIGCIS meeting - workshop on teaching
by Andrew Russell 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi folks - As you may have seen at the SIGCIS workshop schedule <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10>, there will be a roundtable from 10.45 to noon on Computers, Information, and Society in the Classroom. I'm writing to ask for your participation in one (or more) of the following ways: 1. Join the roundtable as a participant. Nathan Ensmenger and I will begin the session by taking 5 or so minutes to describe the courses we teach, the students in the class, and some materials and assignments we use for teaching. But we'd like more one or two more people formally to join us on the panel. If you're interested, please send me an email ASAP and we'll add you to the program. 2. Join the roundtable in the audience. The reason we are allotting only 5 minutes for participant presentations is so that most of session will be dedicated to discussion among the audience. I guess I see it as more of a brainstorming session than anything else. I won't blame you if you want to go to what sounds like a fascinating session on "speculative literature" that is running at the same - I might even sneak out for a few minutes myself :-) 3. Sign up to receive pre-circulated materials. We think that the workshop will be more successful if we pre-circulate some materials and syllabi to discuss. If you'd like to receive these materials ahead of time, please send me an email. Also, if you have materials that you want to pre-circulate, send them to me with a brief note that it's ok to distribute more broadly (we'll either email them to people who express an interest or simply upload them to the SIGCIS site). 4. Contribute your syllabus to the SIGCIS repository. We are lucky to have an impressive repository of related syllabi at http://www.sigcis.org/syllabi. If you haven't done so already, please consider sending a .pdf version of your syllabus to Ed Benoit at eabenoit(a)gmail.com if you are willing to have it included in the repository. One goal of this session is to feed off and further develop this fantastic feature of the SIGCIS site. So, even if you aren't going to be in Tacoma or at our session, take a look at the syllabus repository and think about making a contribution. Thanks and please let me know if you have questions or suggestions, Andy ----------------------------------------------------------- Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Letters Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: 201-216-5400 Fax: 201-216-8245 Office: Morton 329 arussell(a)stevens.edu http://www.arussell.org http://www.stevens.edu/cal/

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SIGCIS Workshop & Member Directory
by Thomas Haigh 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hello everyone, Here are a few topical announcements and reminders regarding SIGCIS, our email list, our member directory, and our 2010 workshop. 1) We had a recent flurry of emails regarding early computer use in the petroleum industry. I was very pleased with the responses we were able to provide. However some people may prefer to get a maximum of one email a day from the list. This can be achieved by logging into the email list at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members and then selecting "Yes" for the "Daily Digest" option. That ensures your inbox will never get crowded even when heated discussion breaks out on the list. You should receive a monthly reminder of your email list (listman) password, and can also request it to be sent to you again. Note that it will usually be different from your main sigcis.org password. 2) For our 2010 workshop http://www.sigcis.org/workshop10, which is now less than two weeks away, we have now received most of the precirculated papers and have them up on the website for your reading pleasure. If you haven't yet sent dissertation or work in progress for preciculation, or if you are in regular session and did not yet send anything for the commentator, then please get the materials to tangjd(a)jmu.edu in the next few days. 3) We should soon be receiving a list from SHOT of the registrants for the workshop. When we get the registrants list from SHOT we'll send some further information regarding dinner options, mechanics, etc. just to the workshop attendees rather than spamming everyone. However, if you plan to attend the workshop but have not yet registered with SHOT (for example if you will do a one day registration at the door) then please let me know so that we can also include you in the messages. 4) Please review your entry in the member directory: http://www.sigcis.org/members This is particularly important for those attending the workshop, as we will be including the directory entry for all SHOT attendees in the workshop booklet. This includes the description of current research, and is a high speed alternative to having everyone stand up and introduce themselves. Some entries are clearly out of date and speak of 2006 or 2007 in the future tense! Others are very skimpy and have no description of research interests and activity in the field. You will need to update by Sunday for inclusion in the booklet. To update your directory entry and other information either login at http://www.sigcis.org/user and do it yourself (preferred option) or email the new text to eabenoit(a)gmail.com. That's Ed Benoit, who has recently been doing a great job cleaning up the email subscription list and working on the member directory. Best wishes, Tom Haigh www.tomandmaria.com/tom

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Petroleum frenzy - message from Simone Turchetti
by Thomas Haigh 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

(Here's a message forwarded from someone else with email trouble posting to the list at present. Welcome to our new member Simone Turchetti -- Tom). I think that the claim is too vague to be considered either true or false. However, the mailing list members can check the existing literature in the history of geophysics that definitely documents important ties between the development of oil prospecting and the early days of computing. One important reference is the book by Charles Bates, Thomas Gaskell and Robert Rice "Geophysics in the Affairs of Man" (Pergamon, 1982) which shows some of these connections. A general point that needs to be made is that many geophysicists went into the field of oil prospecting with skills and experience in electronic engineering and sought to apply methods of signal detection to geological analysis. Therefore they were open to experiment with the commercial viability of their electronic instrumentation beyond the remit of oil prospecting and contributed to the advancement of electronic systems in general. And indeed -as Bates, Gaskell and Rice show- this is one of the reasons why Texas Instruments was established. The company was intended as an off-shoot of the Geophysical Services Inc. (one of the oldest firms in the field) for the provision of more refined electronic instrumentation (check Bates et al., pp. 309-317). Moreover from the 1960s, the needs of remote sensing in fields like oil prospecting (but also seismology and oceanography) propelled the search for methods of digital recording and processing of information which -again- strengthened the connection between geophysical research and the IT sector (check Bates at al., 164-169). So in my opinion there is no doubt that geophysical firms played a big role in the advancement of computing and invested heavily in the field. However it would be difficult to quantify this contribution, especially by comparing it with the investments by the US federal government or that in other equally important areas (such as aeronautics/aerospace). Bates et al. provides a lot of useful information, but those who want to read more should be aware that it is a book written a while ago to provide raw historical data on the advancement of geophysics, which by then had received poor historical coverage. Hope this helps, s.

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Join the Revolution!
by Dag Spicer 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Dear SIGCIS members, In case you haven¹t heard, I wanted to let you all know about our upcoming major new exhibit on the history of computing, opening January 11, 2001 (the 40th anniversary of the term ³Silicon Valley.²) Called R|Evolution, the exhibit is over 25,000 sq ft and covers computer history ³from the abacus to the iPod,² drawing on the Museum¹s immense collection of historical objects and photo and document archives. The exhibit is part of a $17 million renovation which will transform the Computer History Museum into a world-class destination. The exhibit features hundreds of videos with original commentary by computer pioneers (from our oral history collection), compelling graphics, and multimedia. And, of course, the exhibit, supplemented with even more, searchable, historical content, will be online as well. Learn more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzxuPmqmNQ I hope you will all have a chance to visit us! Best regards, Dag -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Computer History Museum: Where Computer History Lives!

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