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moore's law - future research opportunities
by Jonathan Coopersmith 11 May '24

11 May '24

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/12/13/jensen-huang-sa… Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) John Mather "Instrument Maker to the Stars," <https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/instrument-maker-to-the-stars/> *Aerospace America* November 2023 "Technological obsolescence, <https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/05/technological-obsolescence>" National Academy of Engineering *Perspectives* May 23, 2023 Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/

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THIS SATURDAY: Twitch Fundraiser Stream for ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories
by Laine Nooney 10 May '24

10 May '24

*ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories <https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal> *will be hosting our first Twitch Fundraiser Stream LIVE this Saturday, May 11, 11AM - 11PM EST. We will be hosting 12 hours of developers, archivists, and scholars sharing games that are personally historically meaningful to them, on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal SCHEDULE <https://donate.romchip.org/schedule.html> (see below) FUNDING MISSION <https://donate.romchip.org/fundraising-mission.html> READ THE JOURNAL <https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal> DONATE <https://donate.romchip.org/> We hope you'll be able to join us! By supporting *ROMchip*, you help us remain an independently funded venue that develops, edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game history research for a range of audiences. ===SCHEDULE=== *11AM EST: Jason Scott* Software Curator @ Internet Archive Jason's stream game is TBD! Check back soon for more info. *12PM EST: Rami Ismael* Game Developer, Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne Rami will be playing the 1998 game Urban Assault, a game he describes as "deeply European in its worldview" and "the most ungodly mix of strategy and first person." *1PM EST: Bennett Foddy* Game Developer, Getting Over it with Bennett Foddy, QWOP Bennett will be playing the obscure physics-based game Ski Stunt Simulator from the early 2000s, which he describes as "probably the biggest influence on my career." *2PM EST: Nicole He* Game Developer, The Crush House Nicole will be playing Tomb Raider II for the Playstation 3. *3PM EST: Brenda and John Romero* Game Developers, Doom, Wizardry 8, Train, Romero Games The Romeros will be playing John's most recent Doom II mod, One Humanity. The Romeros will be offering five random donor giveaways for a signed copy of One Humanity on a 3.5" floppy disk. *4PM EST: Kishonna L. Gray* Professor, Author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming Kishonna's stream game is TBD! Check back soon for more info. *5PM EST: Ash Parrish* Video Game Reporter, The Verge Ash will be streaming the 1992 platformer Sonic the Hedgehog 2. *6PM EST: Patrick LeMieux* Professor, Co-author of Metagaming "If a Tree Falls: An Hour of Arboreal Modular Synth Music w/ Videogame Samples" Patrick will perform an improvised modular synthesizer set featuring music from the forest levels of games like Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy X, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Secret of Monkey Island 2, Chrono Trigger, Myst, and Donkey Kong Country 2. *7PM EST: Nina Freeman* Game Developer, Cibele, Last Call, how do you Do it? Nina will be playing selections from Ferry Halim's Orisinal Games, a collection of early 2000s Flash games, which have been made recently playable again as of March 2024. *8PM EST: Phil Salvador* Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation Phil will be demoing the obscure, failed haptic gaming device, the Novint Falcon. If ROMchip hits its Tier 1 $6K goal before the end of his segment, Phil will go into the settings and pump the force feedback as high as it goes! *10PM EST: Jason Scott* Software Curator @ Internet Archive To close out our stream, we return to Master of Ceremonies, Jason Scott! -- Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> Assistant Professor | MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> | they/them -Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0 -Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos

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Fwd: Forks in the Digital Road
by Brian E Carpenter 06 May '24

06 May '24

This may be of interest to some here. One of the authors occupied various key roles in the development of the Internet: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ih] selfie - - Forks in the Digital Road Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 13:32:29 -0400 From: Scott Bradner via Internet-history <internet-history(a)elists.isoc.org> Reply-To: Scott Bradner <sob(a)sobco.com> a take on the key decisions that made the Internet (many of which have been talked about on this list - e.g. splitting TCP & IP) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forks-in-the-digital-road-978019761… Scott -- Internet-history mailing list Internet-history(a)elists.isoc.org https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history

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Annals editor
by hemmendd＠union.edu 03 May '24

03 May '24

Colleagues, I am very pleased to report that Troy Astarte of Swansea University has accepted appointment as Editor in Chief of Annals of the History of Computing, to start in early June. I look forward to working with them! David Hemmendinger hemmendd(a)union.edu Professor Emeritus http://cs.union.edu/~hemmendd Computer Science Dept. +1 518 346-4489 Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308 FAX: +1 518 388-6789 Editor in Chief Annals of the History of Computing

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SHOT Cooperative Book Exhibit and Silent Book Auction in Chile
by Melanie Swalwell 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Dear all, I'm forwarding a message from Amy Bix (the Treasurer of SHOT, SIGCIS's parent body) about the cooperative book exhibit and auction that SHOT are organising for the upcoming annual meeting in Chile. Please send any information regarding books to the SHOT secretary's office at: SHOT.Secretariat(a)tue.nl<mailto:SHOT.Secretariat@tue.nl> Regards, Melanie -- SHOT Cooperative Book Exhibit and Silent Book Auction in Chile Since some publishers will be unable to attend our meeting in Chile, SHOT is organizing a cooperative book exhibit, inviting our members to showcase your exciting scholarship. If you are coming to Chile, you are welcome to bring one copy of your recent book(s), and we will have tables where you can set them out for browsing. If you are not coming to Chile but wish to have a book on display, please feel free to send a copy with a friend who will be attending. Please note that SHOT has a reasonably secure display space but cannot guarantee the security or return of books placed on exhibit tables. * If you are bringing a book for this cooperative book exhibit in Chile, we encourage (but do not require) you to please consider donating your book(s) for a silent book auction. * All proceeds will go to supporting SHOT's travel-grant programs, REDI initiative, and multiple other society activities. * We will set out a bidding sheet for each donated book and invite attendees to enter their bids over the course of the conference. * Winners with the highest bid on each book will need to pick up and pay for their book(s) towards the end of the meeting. If you would like to donate your book(s) for this silent auction, many thanks! Please just bring your book(s) with you to the SHOT Staff, near the registration when you arrive, and we will take care of the rest! Our Secretariat would love to receive a mail from you, what book you are taking with you for the book table, and whether you want to donate it (to be able to prepare). If you do bring a book and do not want to donate it: we will have a second table separate, specifically for these. But do please add a sticker (or ask us to do so) with "this book is not available for the auction but will be returned to the owner!", or similar. Please also provide details on where the book can be ordered and we will display that on or near the table! many thanks! yours, Amy. Dr. Amy Bix, Professor of History, Iowa State University, and Treasurer, Society for the History of Technology -- Melanie Swalwell Professor of Digital Media Heritage Co-Chair, SIGCIS<http://www.sigcis.org/> Acting Deputy Director Centre for Transformative Media Technologies School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education Swinburne University PO Box 218, Hawthorn Vic 3122 Australia http://transformativemedia.swinburne.edu.au/ Tel +61 3 9214 3911 AS426 mswalwell(a)swin.edu.au @melswal Research project websites: https://ourdigitalheritage.org/ https://playitagainproject.com/ https://aama.net.au/ https://auseaasi.org/ Recent publications: Collecting, Curating, Preserving, and Researching Digital Media Arts: A good practice report<https://aama.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Collecting-curating-preservi…> Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/homebrew-gaming-and-beginnings-vernacular-di…> Game History and the Local<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66422-0>

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CFP: Sports Technology and Innovation symposium, 21-22 October 2024, Smithsonian Institution
by Hintz, Eric 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Dear SIGCIS members - please check out this call for papers for a fall symposium concerning "Sports Technology and Innovation." Proposals due May 15. We welcome and encourage proposals concerning the computational turn in sports management (e.g. Moneyball), the use of AI in officiating technologies (e.g. Hawk-Eye) or any other sports innovation topics that might intersect with SIGCIS interests. Happy to answer any questions and please tell a friend! -Eric Hintz, Smithsonian Institution CFP: Sports Technology and Innovation symposium, 21-22 October 2024, Smithsonian Institution Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation<https://invention.si.edu/> National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC USA **Note: we've extended the deadline for proposals to May 15, 2024! In Game Changer (2017), Rayvon Fouché argued that modern sports have been radically transformed by scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine. Indeed, from elite professionals to recreational "weekend warriors," sports technologies can make the difference between victory and defeat, safety and injury, participation and exclusion. Moreover, athletes regularly engage in "user innovation" (von Hippel, 2006) to develop advanced technologies for their own benefit. Meanwhile, players' unions, sports federations, and fans collectively influence whether certain sports technologies are widely adopted, regulated, or rejected. To further explore these ideas, we invite proposals for a forthcoming symposium titled "Sports Technology and Innovation." The symposium will examine the different motivations that inspire inventors to develop game-changing technologies, their creative processes, and the often-surprising sources of their ideas. It will investigate the high-tech apparel, protective gear, adaptive prostheses, medical advances, officiating technologies, AI algorithms, and training equipment that infuse all modern sports. We will also explore how athletes, coaches, and general managers engage in non-technological innovation when they introduce new training regimens, "bodily techniques," (Loland, 1992) and front office strategies. The symposium will examine the social and cultural reception of sports technologies, the passionate debates they spur, and the myriad ways they change the games, for better and worse. Finally, we will explore different approaches to the assessment, regulation, and governance of sports technologies and examine why game-changing innovations are ultimately adopted or rejected. We are interested in original, unpublished research that is conceptually informed and historically framed addressing the above and related topics. We invite paper proposals that span a wide variety of time periods, geographies, and sports. We welcome proposals from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including all subfields of kinesiology, the sport humanities and social sciences, sport management, physical culture studies, public health, history, science & technology studies, technology management/entrepreneurship, sociology, anthropology, economics, communications, media studies, and ethics. Besides academics and scholars, we also invite paper proposals from practitioners, i.e., the inventors, scientists, engineers, coaches, athletes, and officials who have advanced and regulated innovations in sports. New Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2024: Interested participants should visit https://forms.gle/kxHbzfU8HFdyusYz5 to upload a short proposal, written in English, containing a 1-page paper abstract followed by a 1-page CV or short bio. Selected symposium presenters will be notified in early June and should pre-circulate a written version of their conference papers by October 7, 2024. The symposium is planned as an in-person event on October 21-22, 2024, but will adopt a virtual format if necessary. In addition to the paper presentations, participants will tour the Lemelson Center's new bilingual sports technology exhibition, Change Your Game / Cambia Tu Juego<https://invention.si.edu/change-your-game> and learn more about the forthcoming companion volume, Inventing for Sports (2024). The Lemelson Center will provide all selected symposium participants with travel to Washington, DC, hotel accommodations, and meals. The symposium organizers are planning to develop an edited volume or special journal issue (e.g., Sport History, International Journal of the History of Sport, History and Technology, or similar) from a selection of revised conference papers. The program committee is comprised of Eric S. Hintz (Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution), Tolga Ozyurtcu (University of Texas, Austin), Matt Bowers (University of Texas, Austin), and Rachel S. Gross (University of Colorado Denver). Questions? Please contact Tolga Ozyurtcu (tolga(a)austin.utexas.edu<mailto:tolga@austin.utexas.edu>) or Eric S. Hintz (hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu>). _________________________________________________________________ Eric S. Hintz, PhD (he/him), Historian/Acting Deputy Director, Lemelson Center Office +1 202-633-3734 | Mobile +1 610-717-7134 |@EricSHintz hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> | americanhistory.si.edu<http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/> | invention.si.edu<http://www.invention.si.edu/> Opening March 15, 2024! Change YOUR Game / Cambia TU Juego<https://invention.si.edu/change-your-game> Author, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/american-independent-inventors-era-corporate…> (2021)

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Online collections databases with erroneous entries
by herbert.bruderer＠bluewin.ch 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Dear colleagues: Many museums maintain online collections databases. Experience shows that they are sometimes inaccurate. Enclosed you will find the results of a small investigation. With best wishes, Herbert Bruderer DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34042.71366 http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34042.71366 -- Bruderer Informatik Seehaldenstrasse 26 Postfach 47 CH-9401 Rorschach Switzerland Telefon +41 71 855 77 11 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0.0in; font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual; } h1 { mso-style-priority: 9; mso-style-link: "Heading 1 Char"; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-right: 0.0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 0.0in; font-size: 24.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif; font-weight: bold; } a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { mso-style-priority: 99; color: rgb(70,120,134); text-decoration: underline; } span.EmailStyle17 { mso-style-type: personal-compose; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif; color: windowtext; } span.Heading1Char { mso-style-name: "Heading 1 Char"; mso-style-priority: 9; mso-style-link: "Heading 1"; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif; mso-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; } *.MsoChpDefault { mso-style-type: export-only; font-size: 11.0pt; } div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } * { } ol { margin-bottom: 0.0in; } ul { margin-bottom: 0.0in; }

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Innovative Lives: with sports technology inventor Doug DeAngelis (May 1)
by Hintz, Eric 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Dear SIGCIS members - if you're in DC, we hope you can join us on May 1 for the Lemelson Center's latest Innovative Lives program featuring sports technology inventor Doug DeAngelis. Tell a friend! Best, Eric Hintz Innovative Lives: with sports technology inventor Doug DeAngelis (May 1) Join the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center<https://invention.si.edu/> at the National Museum of American History on Wednesday May 1 for a special Innovative Lives program featuring Doug DeAngelis, the inventor and entrepreneur behind the Lynx photo-finish camera and several other sports officiating technologies. DeAngelis is one of the many athletes and inventors featured in Change Your Game / Cambia tu juego<https://invention.si.edu/change-your-game>, the Lemelson Center's new bilingual, interactive, family-friendly exhibition that explores the intersection of invention, technology, and sports. As a competitive runner, DeAngelis saw an opportunity to improve upon the unreliable film-based photo finish cameras that were popular during the 1980s. In 1990, at age 24, DeAngelis sketched out a two-page concept in which a high-speed camera took digital images of the finish line, added timestamps, and reassembled the images on a computer. This digital solution enabled race officials to provide near-instant results for any contest with a finish line. In 1992, while still in graduate school, DeAngelis founded Lynx System Developers<https://finishlynx.com/>, which today provides photo-finish cameras and timing solutions for the US Olympic Trials, the Kentucky Derby, NASCAR, the Tour de France, and thousands of high school events across the United States. DeAngelis and his teammates also developed the IsoLynx technology, which can precisely locate athletes in the field of play; it was the first system of its kind to track every player in an NFL game. Between Lynx and IsoLynx, Doug is a named inventor on over 200 patents worldwide. Before the program begins, we invite you to enjoy a light reception and tour the in Change Your Game / Cambia tu juego<https://invention.si.edu/change-your-game>, exhibition. Doug will take the stage at 7:15 pm with moderator Eric S. Hintz; an audience Q&A will follow the conversation. The in-person program will be recorded and posted to the Lemelson Center YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/lemelsoncenter>. Innovative Lives: with sports technology inventor Doug DeAngelis Date: Wednesday May 1, 2024 Time: Doors open at 6pm with a light reception; Program 7:15pm; Concludes 8:30pm Where: In-person at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History<https://americanhistory.si.edu/visit/getting-here> 1300 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560 Free Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovative-lives-doug-deangelis-tickets-879651… About Innovative Lives: Now in its 29th year, the Lemelson Center's Innovative Lives program series<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVdNys8j2tRoyiYAFh3KGc_Q0QIV3I0jb> gives participants the opportunity to engage in a public conversation with diverse inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs about their pioneering work and careers. Accessibility: The National Museum of American History welcomes visitors of all ages and abilities. Accommodations are available upon request; please email nmahprograms(a)si.edu<mailto:nmahprograms@si.edu>. _________________________________________________________________ Eric S. Hintz, PhD (he/him), Historian/Acting Deputy Director, Lemelson Center Office +1 202-633-3734 | Mobile +1 610-717-7134 |@EricSHintz hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> | americanhistory.si.edu<http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/> | invention.si.edu<http://www.invention.si.edu/> Opening March 15, 2024! Change YOUR Game / Cambia TU Juego<https://invention.si.edu/change-your-game> Author, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/american-independent-inventors-era-corporate…> (2021)

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Bombs, Computers, and the Dawn of the Anthropocene
by Benjamin Gross 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Dear SIGCIS Friends: Tomorrow afternoon (Apr. 25) at 3 PM, CDT, the Linda Hall Library will host a lecture by 2023-24 research fellow Bree Lohman entitled "Bombs, Computers, and the Dawn of the Anthropocene." This livestreamed presentation will consider how the development of nuclear weapons and mainframe computing transformed Cold War understandings of time. Learn more and register for this event by visiting https://dawnoftheanthropocene.splashthat.com/. Many thanks and best wishes from Kansas City, -Ben Gross Benjamin Gross, PhD Vice President for Research and Scholarship Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology 5109 Cherry Street Kansas City, Missouri 64110 816.926.8718 grossb(a)lindahall.org www.lindahall.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.lindahall.org/__;!!C5qS4YX3!CBpOwsbK3…>

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April 25 = Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media
by Kevin Driscoll 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Hello SIGCIS! Tomorrow evening, I'm participating in an event about social media and internet history that should be a lot of fun. It is free and will be streaming online. ☎ *DIALED INTHE PREHISTORY OF SOCIAL MEDIA* with Kevin Driscoll, danah boyd, and Marc Weber 📅 Thursday, April 25, 2024 7:00 PM PT (2:00 UTC) 🏛 Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA 🎫 Live and streaming: https://computerhistory.org/events/dialed-in/ Best wishes, Kevin

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