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Fwd: Bits & Bytes: News from the Charles Babbage Institute
by Jeffrey Yost 12 May '22

12 May '22

Dear Colleagues, Here is our Spring CBI Bits & Bytes (Newsletter). Best, Jeff Spring 2022 edition of CBI's e-newsletter. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/339faa1e9ba3/cbi-bits-and-bytes-15611159?e=7e9b315345> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *Help us build a brighter tomorrow for the study of computing and culture. * Give today! <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *Director's Desk* <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> CBI is an interdisciplinary institute for computing and software studies. At times, I am a rather late adopter of technology. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> CBI Awarded Major NSF Privacy and Security grant <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Early in 2022 we received the tremendous news that our grant proposal to the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Computing Program was funded in full for $300,000. Read more <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Annual CBI Award in HCI History <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> The Annual CBI Ben Shneiderman Award in Human-Computer Interaction History recognizes excellence in advancing the history/social study (focus must be change over time) of HCI. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *News From the Archives* <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> The 2021-2022 school year here at the University of Minnesota has been one of rebuilding and restoring. Finding our stride again in today’s new normal. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Schirvar is Named as 2022-2023 Tomash Fellow <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> We are absolutely delighted to announce that University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science ABD Sam Schriever is CBI’s 2022-2023 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Automation by Design: a virtual CBI symposium <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *Automation by Design* is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual CBI symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation, to be held Friday through Saturday, February 17 & 18, 2023. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> CBI Research Fellows' Authored/Edited Books <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> For more than three decades, three of our Senior Research Fellows have been publishing books, and our fourth, has been doing so for more than a decade and a half. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Loeb Delivers 2022 Tomash Fellow Lecture on Y2K History <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> We are grateful to this year's Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow, University of Pennsylvania’s Zachary Loeb for his lecture on April 6, 2022. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Dunning and Kataw Receive Norberg Grants <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Hanan Kataw and David E. Dunning are the Norberg Travel Grant recipients for 2022. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Subscribe to Bits & Bytes <cbi@umn.edu?subject=I%20would%20like%20to%20receive%20Bits%20%26%20Bytes%20from%20CBI> Forward to a Friend <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Facebook] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Website] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Twitter] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Email] <cbi(a)umn.edu> *Copyright © 2022 Charles Babbage Institute, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. *Our mailing address is:* Charles Babbage Institute Andersen Library, University of Minnesota 222 21st Ave S Ste 211 Minneapolis, MN 55455-4400 *Please connect: Twitter <https://twitter.com/justcodeculture> ** Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566>** CBI-FB <https://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute> Blockchain & Society FB <https://www.facebook.com/Decentralizedinternet/>* *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * Director, Charles Babbage Institute <http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi>; Research Professor, HSTM 222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455 *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. 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2021 Mahoney Prize nominations
by Elizabeth Petrick 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hello everyone, It's time for the 2021 Mahoney Prize for outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. Articles published in 2018, 2019, or 2020 will be considered. Self-nominations and nominations of others are both welcome. Please email a copy of the article to members of the prize committee, listed here: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize Deadline is May 1, 2021. Best, Liz ------------- Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Department of History Rice University http://elizabethpetrick.com/

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The Modem World book launch May 10 at 1 PM ET
by Kevin Driscoll 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi everyone, I'm psyched to announce that next Tuesday, May 10 at 1 PM ET, the Deliberative Media Lab at UVA is hosting a roundtable discussion of my new book, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world>, with all-star panelists Megan Sapnar Ankerson, Paul Dourish, Thomas Streeter, and Siva Vaidhyanathan. The event will be on Zoom and open to the public so please feel free to share with your students and colleagues. Registration: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gwYnPMK9Q-CfSvkisuSi2g Yours at 300 baud, Kevin Driscoll https://modem.world ________________________________ From: Siva Vaidhyanathan <deliberativemedialab(a)virginia.edu> Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:39 PM To: Driscoll, Kevin Edward (ked5d) <ked5d(a)virginia.edu> Subject: The Modem World Book Talk Join us online to discuss the new book by Kevin Driscoll. View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/4c259ef3de72/the-modem-world-book-talk?e=baa747d42b> [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/07c89897-6acd-66…] The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media TUESDAY, May 10th at 1pm EST ONLINE! Join us for an author meets critic roundtable featuring: Megan Sapnar Ankerson Communication and Media at the University of Michigan Paul Dourish Department of Infomatics at the University of California, Irvine Tom Streeter Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author Kevin Driscoll Media Studies at the University of Virginia Register Today!<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/592e7aed-7c3b-8d…] >From Yale University Press Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond. From ham radio operators to HIV/AIDS activists, these modem enthusiasts developed novel forms of community moderation, governance, and commercialization. [https://mcusercontent.com/dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e/images/f5748033-5642-61…] The Modem World tells an alternative origin story for social media, centered not in the office parks of Silicon Valley or the meeting rooms of military contractors, but rather on the online communities of hobbyists, activists, and entrepreneurs. Over time, countless social media platforms have appropriated the social and technical innovations of the BBS community. How can these untold stories from the internet’s past inspire more inclusive visions of its future? Register Today!<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> Our mailing address is: 514 Brandon Ave. Charlottesville, VA 22902 Deliberative Media Lab UVA Democracy Initiative Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id…> or unsubscribe from this list<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…>. This email was sent to ked5d(a)virginia.edu<mailto:ked5d@virginia.edu> why did I get this?<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id=e…> unsubscribe from this list<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478…> update subscription preferences<https://virginia.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dec8eb9c44c038b95467f478e&id…> Deliberative Media Lab · 514 Brandon Ave · Democracy Initiative · Charlottesville, VA 22903-3312 · USA [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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NYT Obituary for Dave Walden
by Andrew Russell 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hello - Many of you will have heard the sad news of Dave Walden’s passing. Katie Hafner wrote an obituary for the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/technology/david-walden-dead.html?unlock…>. (I believe the previous link will work for everyone, including non-subscribers). Dave made so many contributions to computing, and to the history of computing, and he will be very sorely missed. His personal website has substantial material of significant historical interest: see https://www.walden-family.com/ <https://www.walden-family.com/>. Andy

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Interlisp Restoration Project
by STEPHEN KAISLER 04 May '22

04 May '22

A group of original developers of Interlisp and several other past and present users have worked diligently to transfer Interlisp to run on modern computing systems. Please post this Announcement: Interlisp Restoration Project Interlisp was a software development environment developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s to support research in many areas including Artificial Intelligence, Graphical User Interfaces, and Computer Supported Collaborative Work using HyperText. The software has many versions as it evolved over 25 years. The 1992 ACM Software System Award https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/masinter_3814811 was awarded to the Interlisp system for “… pioneering work in programming environments that integrated * source-language debuggers, * fully compatible integrated interpreter/compiler, * automatic change management, * structure-based editing, * logging facilities, * interactive graphics, and * analysis/profiling tools.”http://Interlisp.Org is a project led by some of the original developers and users of the software, with help from Lisp and open source communities. This team is working to restore and adapt the Medley version of Interlisp to modern computing infrastructures. The project will allow others to experience this seminal IDE (Integrated Development Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment ) as well as a number of applications written in and for it. Thehttp://Interlisp.Org team is interested in how to preserve an idea and an experience through reviving and adapting it for the next generation. Exposing newcomers to the Interlisp software and inspiring experiences with it are central to the team’s preservation practice. They believe that saving the source code alone isn’t enough to preserve the software, and are working to revive Interlisp and adapt it to be useful in the modern world. The Interlisp .org team’s goals include: * Support researchers studying the history of software development paradigms, graphical user interfaces, hypertext, AI and other software methods * Build a case study for preservation of source code, algorithms, and software history * Invite interested researchers and potential users to participate in the revival of Interlisp For more information, pleae contact thehttp://Interlisp.org team at: Interlisp(a)googlegroups.com mailto:Interlisp@googlegroups.com or visit our website: http://interlisp.org/ .......... Steve Kaisler Participant Member SIGCIS

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The Computerization of Economics.
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 03 May '22

03 May '22

Might be of interest Bernardo Conference: The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics 12-13 May 2022 Registration form to attend online: https://buff.ly/3kkm9sm <https://buff.ly/3kkm9sm>

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Fwd: Announcing the annual CBI Award in HCI History
by Jeffrey Yost 03 May '22

03 May '22

Dear Colleagues, Wanted to share this exciting new Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI, History Award Program we now have at CBI. There is both an award for scholars/professionals and recent graduates (dissertation or thesis). Please share with any lists or people you feel might be interested. Thank you! Best, Jeff <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Annual CBI Award in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) History <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> *About* The Annual CBI Ben Shneiderman Award in Human-Computer Interaction History recognizes excellence in advancing the history/social study (focus must be change over time) of HCI. The principal award is for a published book, article, documentary, podcast, website, or other media on HCI’s past; a second award is for a top dissertation or thesis (Ph.D./Master’s degree) on HCI history. *Deadline for the 2022 Awards is November 1, 2022.* Award recipients will be announced at the Spring 2023 ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction) Conference. Learn more <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> Forward to a Friend <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Facebook] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Twitter] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Website] <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=…> [image: Email] <cbi(a)umn.edu> *Copyright © 2022 Charles Babbage Institute, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. *Our mailing address is:* Charles Babbage Institute Andersen Library, University of Minnesota 222 21st Ave S Ste 211 Minneapolis, MN 55455-4400 *Please connect: Twitter <https://twitter.com/justcodeculture> ** Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566>** CBI-FB <https://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute> Blockchain & Society FB <https://www.facebook.com/Decentralizedinternet/>* *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * Director, Charles Babbage Institute <http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi>; Research Professor, HSTM 222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455 *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press * Co-Editor *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society Blog and Site* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/> (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick) *Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society* *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>*

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Percy Ludgate (1883-1922): Ireland's First Computer Designer (Paperback)
by Brian Randell 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hi With apologies, here is yet another contribution to the current flow of self-promotional messages. Trinity College Dublin's John Gabriel Byrne Computer Collection (https://hstmnetworkireland.org/the-john-gabriel-byrne-computer-science-coll… ) has just published this book about Percy Ludgate: Coghlan, B. and Randell, B. (eds.). Percy Ludgate (1883-1922): Ireland's First Computer Designer (Paperback). John Gabriel Byrne Computer Collection (2022), 246 pages. [ISBN 10: 1911566296 ISBN 13: 9781911566298] It is available from, for example, Book Depository International via AbeBooks (https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31168337121&cm_sp=det-_-b…) Cheers Brian Randell — School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 URL = http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/brianrandell.html

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New Book: The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
by Alexander Monea 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

New Book: The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight I wanted to post an announcement for my new book The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight that just came out from MIT Press. The Digital Closet is an exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. You can use the coupon code ‘MONEA20’ to get 20% off when you purchase the book direct from Penguin Random House at PRH.com. See here https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691644/the-digital-closet-by-alexa… I’ll post the summary below, but you can also find more information about the book (including endorsements, author details, etc.) at https://www.digitalcloset.org Summary: In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through opaque algorithms, automated and human content moderation, warped keywords, and other strategies of digital overreach. Monea explains how the United States' thirty-year “war on porn” has brought about the over-regulation of sexual content, which, in turn, has resulted in the censorship of much nonpornographic content—including material on sex education and LGBTQ+ activism. In this wide-ranging, enlightening account, Monea examines the cultural, technological, and political conditions that put LGBTQ+ content into the closet. Monea looks at the anti-porn activism of the alt-right, Christian conservatives, and anti-porn feminists, who became strange bedfellows in the politics of pornography; investigates the coders, code, and moderators whose work serves to reify heteronormativity; and explores the collateral damage in the ongoing war on porn—the censorship of LGBTQIA+ community resources, sex education materials, art, literature, and other content that engages with sexuality but would rarely be categorized as pornography by today's community standards. Finally, he examines the internet architectures responsible for the heteronormalization of porn: Google Safe Search and the data structures of tube sites and other porn platforms. Monea reveals the porn industry's deepest, darkest secret: porn is boring. Mainstream porn is stuck in a heteronormative filter bubble, limited to the same heteronormative tropes, tagged by the same heteronormative keywords. This heteronormativity is mirrored by the algorithms meant to filter pornographic content, increasingly filtering out all LGBTQIA+ content. Everyone suffers from this forced heteronormativity of the internet—suffering, Monea suggests, that could be alleviated by queering straightness and introducing feminism to dissipate the misogyny. Alexander Monea Assistant Professor English | Cultural Studies George Mason University [1473787391094_GMU]

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Events today and next month for A New History of Modern Computing (hybrid)
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Hello SIGCIS, A little more self-promotion. There are two hybrid book talks coming up for A New History of Modern Computing. One is a small event today at UWM, my home university, with our digital humanities group. It's 3:00 to 4:00 US central time, and as it is likely to be a small audience (particularly in person) I expect to run it in a more conversational, interactive way rather than just ploughing through a huge deck of slides. https://uwm.edu/libraries/events/dh-lab-registration-for-a-new-history-of-mo dern-computing/ If you fill in the form then you should get a zoom link from the host. But if you don't get your zoom link half an hour ahead then email me and I'll send it to you directly. I am not including the link here, because if you fill the form in it will help the DH lab justify its existence. Then there is what promises to be a larger event in Chicago, organized by the local chapter of the ACM and hosted by Loyola. https://www.meetup.com/acm-chicago/events/285566610/ That's going to be on Wednesday, May 18 from 6pm to 8pm (again US central time). It will a more formal talk, but given the non-specialist audience I'm going to try to make it accessible by focusing on the core question of what the unusual nature of the computer itself means for someone faced with the task of trying to construct a coherent and comprehensive biographical narrative for this technology. BTW, if you do want to see a recording of me rushing through a lot of slides in an intense manner then the keynote talk I gave at HAPOC in Zurich last year is now available: https://video.ethz.ch/events/2021/hapoc/c78227a5-4f48-443f-bc48-f56125e654c3 .html. Given the audience there I assumed an interest in Turing and a familiarity with the general shape of the history of computing literature. Thanks, of course, to everyone involved with setting up those events and in particular for the invitation to Zurich, which thanks to the timing of the various Covid waves felt like a surprisingly normal conference experience. While I am clogging up your inbox, I might as well also include a link to a nice story that Gil Press of Forbes posted about the book recently: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2022/04/11/read-this-engaging-story-of -how-the-computer-has-been-eating-the-world-for-75-years Best wishes, Tom

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