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Mod swap
by Troy Astarte 15 Jan '22

15 Jan '22

Hi all, It’s my pleasure to announce that from now until March, your moderators on the SIG-CIS mailing list will be Bill and me. Bill is professor emeritus from both Eastern Michigan University and Concordia University, Ann Arbor and you may already know him. For those that don’t know me, I am a new lecturer in computer science at Swansea University and in my new role I am trying to find the time to work out what my research interests will be from now on :-) Let me take this opportunity to remind you that the SIGCIS group is committed to supporting our diverse membership. Use of the mailing list is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy<https://www.sigcis.org/aup> and we expect mailing list members to broadly share our Community Values<https://www.sigcis.org/about_values>. Moderating seems to largely entail rejecting spam messages behind the scenes, but in situations where the Acceptable Use Policy is breached we may step in. If you have any concerns about conversation on the list that seems not to have come to our attention, please feel free to email us directly. Best, Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them) Lecturer, Computer Science Swansea University For students: my office hours are Monday, 14–1500 and Wednesday, 10–1100. Every email has a cost to the climate. Please think before sending short emails.

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NYCDH Week 2022 From Home
by Kimon Keramidas 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Here comes the 7th Annual NYCDH Week! The NYCDH <http://nycdh.org/> Steering Committee is happy to announce the 7th AnnualNYCDH Week, February 7-11, 2021 <https://nycdh.org/dhweek/>. Like last year this year’s format is fully online and will continue to do what it has done for the past six years: Bring together individuals across the region who are interested in digital humanities. At NYCDH Week, you can learn new techniques and skills, discover and share DH projects from across the city, and connect with a vibrant and diverse community of scholars and practitioners. Join us for the Kickoff Event! This year’s NYCDH Week theme is Support, as we build off of last year’s Care/Repair to show how a DH community can come together to support one another. While COVID still impacts us on a daily basis, and much of the focus of this DH Week will be on how to support one another in times of crisis, we also look to think beyond the pandemic and how we can reach out, and share our experiences, specialties, and sense of togetherness on a regular basis. This intention will come through in the roundtable we have planned for the kickoff event and through the annual announcement and presentation of the NYCDH Graduate Student Awards. In addition, we have added a series of support workshops that will provide our community with skills beyond the technical and academic realm, including project management, proposal and grant development, and early career development. Stay tuned for details about those in a later email. Register for the Kickoff Day! <https://nycdh.org/dhweek/event/nycdh-kickoff-event-2022/> Volunteer to teach a virtual workshop at NYCDH Week! Graduate students, librarians, faculty, museum workers, independent scholars, tech companies and others are all invited to become part of NYCDH Week's series of wide-ranging workshops. Workshops are made possible by members of the NYCDH community who volunteer their time to teach and help organize each session. So, let us know if you want to teach a workshop or wait until the workshops are announced and join us for a session. Workshops are offered across the city and they are FREE and open to everyone. To sign up to teach a workshop please use this form <https://forms.gle/Ynw4WABdhL3oLRnW9>. Registration to attend a workshop will be opened soon! Sign up to lead a workshop! <https://forms.gle/Ynw4WABdhL3oLRnW9> Last year NYCDH Week included 36 workshops and demos with more than 1500 registrants. For a list of those workshops, see the DH Week website <https://nycdh.org/dhweek/sessions-2021/>. Please feel free to share this email widely as the virtual nature of this year’s event allow us to welcome and host participants from far beyond our local NYC community and we welcome national and international participation! For more information, visit our website <https://nycdh.org/dhweek/>. You can also email nycdh(a)gmail.com <mailto:nycdh@gmail.com>. We hope to see you there! And remember to join NYCDH <https://nycdh.org/create-an-account/> if you haven’t yet! Cheers, Kimon Keramidas Kimon Keramidas, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor, XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement <http://as.nyu.edu/xe.html> Affiliated Faculty, Program in International Relations Pronouns: He/Him New York University 14 University Place New York, NY 10003 Co-Director - ITMO University International Digital Humanities Research Center <http://dh.itmo.ru/en_about> Co-Founder - The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy <http://jitpedagogy.org/> Co-Founder - NYCDH <http://nycdh.org/> E kimon.keramidas(a)nyu.edu <mailto:kimon.keramidas@nyu.edu> W http://kimonkeramidas.com <http://kimonkeramidas.com/> The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads Exhibition <https://www.freersackler.si.edu/sogdians> The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing Exhibition <https://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/exhibitions/10/the-interface-experience> The Interface Experience: A User’s Guide Winner of the 2016 Innovation in Print Design Award from the American Alliance of Museums Buy Book <http://store.bgc.bard.edu/the-interface-experience-a-users-guide-by-kimon-k…>

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Seeking Submissions and Pitches!
by Laine Nooney 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Dear SIGCIS’ers, The editors at *ROMchip <http://www.romchip.org> *are looking for content! We’re an open-access journal, published July and Dec, interested in all aspects of game history, including both digital and analog games. *ROMchip *publishes a variety of formats, including traditional peer reviewed articles, shorter Materials pieces (~4k words) that deal with a specific archive, collection, or artifact related to game history, as well as translations of existing works. But for SIGCIS folks, we’re especially interested in receiving your ideas for publishing interviews with individuals who were a part of game history and/or are a part of related cultural institutions. Our interviews section provides a valuable service to contemporary game historians, while also establishing an archive for future researchers. For examples, see this interview with Ikko Ohno <https://www.romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/127> (creator of *The Flying Luna Clipper*) and this discussion with Marie Foulston and Kristen Volsing <https://www.romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/120> on the Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition at the V&A. If you have an idea for an Interview, Materials piece, or Translation, pitching is as easy as writing up a paragraph and emailing it to me (Laine)! (we typically don't comment on submissions intended as peer reviewed articles, but if you have questions please just ask!) We conceptualize games and game history pretty broadly, so we’re open to whatever ideas you might have. You can find further details on submissions here <https://www.romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/about/submissions>. Looking forward to seeing what this community has for us. Warmly, The ROMchip editorial team (Laine Nooney, Henry Lowood, Soraya Murray & David Parisi) Laine Nooney <http://www.lainenooney.com/> Assistant Professor | MCC <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> @ NYU <http://www.nyu.edu/> | she/they -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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Lindgren...
by Koblentz, Evan A 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

>> Does anyone know how to reach Thomas Lindgren, who wrote the 1990 book "Glory and Failure" about Babbage and others who built difference engines? Disregard. I was informed it's Michael, not Thomas, and someone pointed me to his website. -- [image: NJIT logo] <https://www.njit.edu/> *Evan A Koblentz* Staff Writer Office of Strategic Communications evank(a)njit.edu (973) 596-3065 <9735963065> https://web.njit.edu/~evank/ @TechnicallyEvan

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Thomas Lindgren
by Koblentz, Evan A 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Does anyone know how to reach Thomas Lindgren, who wrote the 1990 book "Glory and Failure" about Babbage and others who built difference engines? -- [image: NJIT logo] <https://www.njit.edu/> *Evan A Koblentz* Staff Writer Office of Strategic Communications evank(a)njit.edu (973) 596-3065 <9735963065> https://web.njit.edu/~evank/ @TechnicallyEvan

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FW: [CDCinfo] CfP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Looks like an interesting opportunity for many SIGCIS members – restricted to current Ph.D. students though. Tom From: CDC Mailingliste <CDCinfo(a)leuphana.de> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 8:06 AM To: CDC Mailingliste <CDCinfo(a)leuphana.de> Subject: [CDCinfo] CfP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy Call for Papers Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy Open to PhD Candidates Date: June 20 – 24, 2022 Location: Stanford Berlin, Haus Cramer, Pacelliallee 18, 14195 Berlin Application Deadline: March 1, 2022 General information The Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy addresses the intersection between individual humanities disciplines and studies of media and technology from historical, systematic, and methodological perspectives. As we live in a time when new technologies are emerging at an increasingly rapid pace, the Academy seeks to address vital questions about how different media can drive political and social change, but it also inquires into the assumptions and values that produce technological artifacts. Media studies and media theory intersect with various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that treat the transmission of information, the formation of social networks, and the embodiment of knowledge in technological artifacts. Therefore, the Academy will bring together faculty and students from various branches of the humanities and social sciences to think about how »mediality« permeates these disciplines in distinct ways; we will approach these issues not only from a robustly interdisciplinary vantage but also by way of comparative cultural and historical perspectives. In this way, the Academy will contribute to our understanding of the fundamental ways that forms of media and technological mediation inform disciplinary knowledge across the humanities, as well as the ways that these disciplinary knowledge formations are an essential precondition to any serious thinking about mediality. 2022 TOPIC: “Scale” The goal of the Summer Academy is to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue about notions, practices and technologies of scale and scalability, and of models and strategies of dealing with scaling problems in relation to different phenomena, epistemologies, and disciplines. How are scale and scalability imagined, conceptualized and effected? How are knowledge and things made scalable? What are the respective scaling problems? When did they occur historically? And how did and do they get dealt with or changed? There is often an unbridgeable gap between the big and the small. Although there is usually a scale by means of which large and small phenomena can be compared by measuring and counting, considerable difficulties arise as soon as large things must be reduced, and small things enlarged. Then it becomes apparent that different laws prevail in the large and in the small (in the macro, the meso and the micro, to reference a ready-made tri-partite scale of Western thought). In the act of enlarging and reducing, leaps from quantity to quality take place, which in theory and practice let 'the whole' slip away. Often it is not even possible to predict when and where such upheavals will occur, where theories will suddenly lose their explanatory power and applications will fail to function. Circumstances of this kind are known as "scaling problems," which arise when a system is enlarged or reduced in size. A successful change in scale cannot be achieved by just enlarging or reducing all parts in size. Moreover, practices and technologies of frictionless scalability (and their failures) can have damaging environmental, political, economic and sociocultural consequences. The Summer Academy invites papers and projects that historically, empirically and conceptually engage with scale, scalability and scaling problems. The Academy’s basic hypothesis is that large and small phenomena assert their respective stubbornness, are not easily convertible into each other, and therefore call for different theories, concepts, and methods. Thus, scaling problems are a critique of reductionism: they point out that the properties of the large cannot be assumed from the knowledge of the small and that the properties of the small cannot be deduced from the knowledge of the large. Learning to deal with such symmetry breaks, to particularize theories and to limit the validity of statements is not only one of the central challenges of various disciplines but has also repeatedly produced longings for holistic solutions and approaches. Inquiries into scale, scalability and scaling problems can for instance address one of the following concerns: First, there is a systematic focus on how different sciences (history, literary studies, art history, sociology, but also computer science, physics, law, geography and economics) conceptualize scale and deal with their respective scaling problems. Second, there is a historical focus on the question of when and how scaling and its problems became virulent in different fields and disciplines. Third, there is a methodological focus on how scales are developed and controlled differently (consider micro/macro histories, economies of scale, social theory’s micro/meso/macro approaches, peripheral media and global media infrastructures, or the scales of weather and climate, cell and organism, quantum physics and mechanics). And fourth, the concepts, histories and methods of scaling, its conditions and effects, are entangled with a politics of scale. Core faculty 1. Timon Beyes (Sociology of Organisation and Culture, Leuphana) 2. Shane Denson (Film and Media Studies, Stanford) 3. Marisa Galvez (French, Italian, and German Studies, Stanford) 4. Melissa Gregg (Cultural Studies, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel) 5. Karla Oeler (Film and Media Studies, Stanford) 6. Claus Pias (History and Epistemology of Media, Leuphana) 7. Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford) 8. Mike Ananny (Communication and Journalism, USC) Guest speaker: Kate Crawford (NYU) Application All applications from doctoral candidates must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Please submit your CV (1-2 pages) along with a 500-word abstract of your topic, and a short letter of intent explaining why you would like to attend this Summer Academy. Please use the following naming convention for your application files: Lastname_CV.pdf, Lastname_Abstract.pdf, Lastname_Letter_of_Intent.pdf. Please email your applications by March 1, 2022 to mgalvez(a)stanford.edu <mailto:mgalvez@stanford.edu> and timon.beyes(a)leuphana.de <mailto:timon.beyes@leuphana.de> The deadline for applications for the summer school is March 1, 2022. All applicants will be informed about the selection of participants by end of March 2022. The working language of the Summer Academy will be English. The organizers will cover travel (economy) and accommodation costs for the time of the summer school. No additional fees will be charged. Contact Timon Beyes (timon.beyes(a)leuphana.de <mailto:timon.beyes@leuphana.de> ) Marisa Galvez (mgalvez(a)stanford.edu <mailto:mgalvez@stanford.edu> ) Claus Pias (pias(a)leuphana.de <mailto:pias@leuphana.de> )

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Forthcoming book of Vannevar Bush's writings
by Ceruzzi, Paul 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

SIGCIS members: I want to call your attention to forthcoming book edited by my colleague Gregg Zachary: The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). It is a companion volume to Zachary's earlier biography of Bush and consists of selections of Bush’s writings, each with an introduction that places the writing in historical context. The writings cover an enormous field, including many essays with will appeal to SIGCIS members. His 1945 memex essay, "As We May Think," is included as are his writings in the 50s and 60s that elaborate his ideas about the future of desktop information appliances that quickly search, retrieve and "amplify" the "trail of associations" in the human record, increasing its value for civilization. I had the pleasure of reading a draft version of the book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. For a list of the 56 selections, see: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-essential-writings-of-vannevar-bush/97802…<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcup.colum…>

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Queens of Code talk on Jan 20th 4:00
by Eileen Buckholtz 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Best wishes to you all for a happy and healthy 2022. The Queens of Code are starting the new year with a presentation for the Maryland Women's History Center. Please join us and share this notice with your students. They've kept their secrets for 50 years or more. Queens of Code Laura Nelson, Kathy Jackson, and Eileen Buckholtz share their stories about the National Security Agency's computing women and tips for students considering a STEM career. This is the first presentation that Laura has joined us. She is the CEO of the National Cryptologic Foundation. Join us virtually on January 20, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. The event is free. We welcome donations, which will support STEM activities of the National Cryptologic Foundation and MWHC's 2022 programs. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queens-of-code-stories-of-nsas-computing-women…

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use of 3.5 inch hard drives
by Jonathan Coopersmith 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

A recent post asked for information about any current uses of 3.5 inch hard drives. My son recently gave me these for a birthday present. Stay sane and get a booster (partially for you; more for others), Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Voting challenges: https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secur… Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/ International standards battles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terr… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/h…> *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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late 1980s Czech video games
by Jonathan Coopersmith 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

A lot more going on than realized. https://kotaku.com/play-these-classic-games-created-in-communist-czechoslo-… Stay sane and get a booster (partially for you; more for others), Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) 979.862.4314 (fax) Voting challenges: https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secur… Preserving space archives: https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/ International standards battles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terr… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/h…> *FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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