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New Book Series at Johns Hopkins University Press, Studies in Computing and Culture
by Jeffrey Yost 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Dear Colleagues, Con and I are delighted to announce a new book series with JHUP, if you have a book project/proposal in mind, or for more info., please let us know. Best, Jeff and Con *New Book Series at Johns Hopkins University Press* *Studies in Computing and Culture * *Series Editors: * *Jeffrey R. Yost*, CBI Director and Research Professor of History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota *Gerardo Con Diaz*, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis *Series Editorial Board:* *Héctor Beltrán*, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Ruha Benjamin*, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University *Lilly Irani*, Associate Professor of Communication, Science Studies, Computer Science, and Critical Gender Studies, University of California, San Diego *Meg Leta Jones*, Associate Professor of Communication, Technology, and Culture, Georgetown University *Ya-Wen Lei*, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University *Eden Medina*, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Mai Sugimoto*, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kansai University This series publishes works on the relationships among digital technology, political economies, and sociocultural systems. We seek interdisciplinary scholarship that speaks to how computing, information, and data cultures change over time and how our digital present and future relate to the long arc of social, political, cultural, economic, legal, or environmental change. We welcome all chronologies and geographies. The series will help students, scholars, and the public gain historical and contemporary perspectives to understand how and why digital technology continues to transform every aspect of our daily lives. *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Founder and Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick), *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture* c <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces>se.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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Fw: Question about early female architect barred from men's club
by Sharon Traweek 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

re early female architect barred from men's club Here is some background information: From the mid-70s to the late 80s there were many demonstrations, often led by lawyers, journalists, and those in other professions who were excluded from work-related discussions held at men-only and sometimes white-only social clubs. The sites included some university alumni clubs. Usually there was extensive newspaper/TV coverage. Histories of those events and lawsuits might identify participants. Quitting Is Not Acquitting - The New York Times, 3 Jan 1977 <https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/03/archives/quitting-is-not-acquitting.html> The troublesome thing about private clubs, in law and in fact, is that they are ... Why men only, after all, in Washington's Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs? COSMOS CLUB ATTACKED BY DC RULING - The ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/11/07/cosmos-club-attacke…> Washington Post, 7 Nov 1987. The sweeping decision is the latest development in a long-running conflict over men-only clubs in the District, and arises out of a two-pronged . Club Doors Are Open, But Women Draw Back - The New York ..., 14 Sep1988 <https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/14/garden/club-doors-are-open-but-women-dra…> Of the University Club's 4,000 members, only 20 are women; .. Many clubs have fought such laws and lost; a few are still fighting State Power and Discrimination by Private Clubs - JSTOR <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1341620> Harvard Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 8 (Jun., 1991), pp. 1835-1856 (22 pages). Private social clubs with discriminatory membership policies are fast becoming extinct. Such clubs face mounting informal pressure'. S Sharon Traweek, UCLA Gender Studies and History Departments UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies https://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/article/227444 https://www.4sonline.org/what-is-4s/4s-prizes/john-desmond-bernal-prize/ https://www.routledge.com/Questing-Excellence-in-Academia-A-Tale-of-Two-Uni… As a land grant university<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university> UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin and Southern Channel Islands). ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces(a)lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Len Shustek <len(a)shustek.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 12:08 PM To: Jonathan Coopersmith <j-coopersmith(a)tamu.edu>; Ellen Spertus <spertus(a)mills.edu> Cc: SIGCIS Listserver <members(a)sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Question about early female architect barred from men's club At 07:41 PM 9/10/2021, Jonathan Coopersmith wrote: There are other stories about other women unable to meet with professors and other professionals because their clubs banned women -- e.g. Anna G. Perkins, Yale Needs Women. I'm working on a condensation for CACM of Turing Award winner Dana Scott's recent oral history. In it he says this: Close friends of [Alfred] Tarski were Raphael and Julia Robinson. Julia did her thesis under Tarski, but you can't imagine the difference for women between 1950 and today. Only men were allowed in the Berkeley Faculty Club, so when Tarski suggested at a lunch that there were many problems to be solved about rational arithmetic, Julia was not present. Raphael suggested that to her later, and that's how Julia's famous thesis eventually evolved, where she showed the undecidability of the theory of rational numbers. If all goes well, the condensation and a pointer to the full interview should be published in about six months. Len

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Question about early female architect barred from men's club
by Len Shustek 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Question about early female architect barred from men's club
by Ellen Spertus 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

Thanks so much, Len. IIRC, this would have been in the 40s or 50s. I'm sorry I can't remember more. On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:19 PM Len Shustek <len(a)shustek.com> wrote: > At 09:08 PM 9/8/2021, Ellen Spertus wrote: > >Back in the 1990s I attended a Systers lunch at an > >architecture-related conference, maybe ASPLOS-V (1992, Boston). Gwen > >Bell told us about a female computer architect who worked for one of > >the first computer firms until she was unable to attend a meeting > >with a client because the club/restaurant only allowed men, after > >which she was fired. Do any of you know the full story (or can you > >ask Gwen Bell)? > > We asked Gwen, and she doesn't remember. > I also asked Lynn Conway, who was fired by IBM in the 60s. She said > it isn't her, but if it is a true story she'd like to know who it was. > -- Len > >

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(Oral History) Interviewing in Practice and Theory: free, online. Sept 21 & 22
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

Hello SIGCIS, With Valérie Schafer (Luxembourg) and Sebastian Giessmann (Siegen) Ive organized a small workshop, Interviewing in Practice and Theory as part of Siegen Universitys enormous grant funded Media of Cooperation project. The university is shifting to hybrid formats for the rest of this year, so I am scheduled to be there in person to lead two sessions of three hours each on oral history issues. Those will be interactive, seminar style events with some pre circulated readings and a chance for the participants to discuss their planned or ongoing oral history research with me and with each other. If any of you live within easy travel of Siegen and would like to attend in person then Id be thrilled to have you there, and I believe we can provide food. However, given the short notice of this public announcement and (connected) return of pandemic-related uncertainty and terror we expect most participation to be virtual. We also have two blocks of three hours each of talks plus a roundtable. Those are times later in the day, so that US participants can potentially listen to them without waking up absurdly early. As well as the organizers, the lineup will include David Brock (Computer History Museum) and Milica Popovic (Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, Central European University). Ill be giving a talk on what to do when things go wrong in an interview, which might be fun. For the full program and information on registration, please visit https://www.socialstudiesof.info/interviewworkshop/ Im rather hoping that Germany is not about to follow Sweden and the Netherlands by imposing bans on vaccinated travelers from the US. Best wishes, Tom

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Question about early female architect barred from men's club
by Len Shustek 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

At 09:08 PM 9/8/2021, Ellen Spertus wrote: >Back in the 1990s I attended a Systers lunch at an >architecture-related conference, maybe ASPLOS-V (1992, Boston). Gwen >Bell told us about a female computer architect who worked for one of >the first computer firms until she was unable to attend a meeting >with a client because the club/restaurant only allowed men, after >which she was fired. Do any of you know the full story (or can you >ask Gwen Bell)? We asked Gwen, and she doesn't remember. I also asked Lynn Conway, who was fired by IBM in the 60s. She said it isn't her, but if it is a true story she'd like to know who it was. -- Len

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Very sad news--Arthur Norberg passed away early this morning
by Jeffrey Yost 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Dear Colleagues, I have some very sad news to report. Arthur Norberg just passed away. Arthur was of course the Founding Director of the Charles Babbage Institute and served as Director in two tenures. Bill Aspray had the great pleasure of serving with him in his first tenure at CBI in the 1980s and I in his second, 1999 to mid 2005 (when he retired). From the start, Arthur, having earlier managerial/academic experience at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and at NSF as a program officer, emphasized collection development, research, sponsored projects, and oral history, which were (and remain) critical to setting CBI on an impactful course, helping to create an infrastructure for our field. We at CBI wish his wife Pam the best at this difficult time. May he rest in peace. Best, Jeff *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Founder and Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick), *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture* c <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces>se.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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REMINDER: SIGCIS 2021 Conference | Registration Info
by Laine Nooney 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Hi ya'll, This is just a friendly reminder to register, if you haven't already, for our annual conference, SIGCIS 2021: Online Edition, from Sept 23-25: https://bit.ly/3jP1LPF. *You must register to receive the links to the conference and the recorded videos*. No registration with SHOT, our parent organization, is required. We're using Eventbrite to handle registration, and running registration as donation only, pay what you can. We provide tiered recommendations, but everyone should only pay what they feel capable of contributing. If you can't pay anything, shoot me an email and we'll make sure you're registered. We have over 50 participants from across the globe giving presentations over the course of the conference's three days. Our keynote panel is called "Stack Trace: The Limits of History," and features Rayvon Fouché, Lisa Nakamura, Jason Edward Lewis + Lucy Suchman, moderated by Morgan Ames. We expect this to be a fantastic 3 days! You can check out the full program here: http://meetings.sigcis.org/ <http://meetings.sigcis.org/> This event is a single channel conference hosted on Zoom. Since participants are from across time zones, we'll be recording presentations and making them available to registered attendees and participants for two weeks after the conference. Looking forward to seeing you all at the conference! --SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings) Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania Morgan G. Ames, University of California, Berkeley Xiaochang Li, Stanford University 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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Question about early female architect barred from men's club
by Ellen Spertus 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Back in the 1990s I attended a Systers lunch at an architecture-related conference, maybe ASPLOS-V (1992, Boston). Gwen Bell told us about a female computer architect who worked for one of the first computer firms until she was unable to attend a meeting with a client because the club/restaurant only allowed men, after which she was fired. Do any of you know the full story (or can you ask Gwen Bell)? Thank you. Ellen

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2022-2023 Lemelson Center Fellowships and Travel Grants (Apps Due: 1 Nov 2021)
by Hintz, Eric 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

**Hi SIGCIS - Check out the Lemelson Center's call for fellowship applications, which is somewhat limited again because of the ongoing COVID pandemic. The National Museum of American History holds tremendous collections in the history of computing, and we count several SIGCIS members among our alumni fellows, so we hope you'll consider applying! Best, Eric Hintz Fellowships and Travel Grants from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center **Note: Due to reduced operational capacity resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center is limiting its fellowship and travel grant offerings for 2022-2023. Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship: Accepting applications, due 1 November 2021. Lemelson Center Fellowships: Suspended for 2022-2023, not accepting applications. Lemelson Center Travel Grants: Suspended for 2022-2023, not accepting applications. Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation<https://invention.si.edu/> supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products. Our programs provide access to the expertise of the Institution's research staff<http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/staff> and the vast invention and technology collections of the National Museum of American History (NMAH). The NMAH Archives Center<http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/collections> documents both individuals and firms across a range of time periods and subject areas. Representative collections include the Computer Oral History Collection and the papers of video game inventor Ralph Baer. In addition, the NMAH Library offers long runs of historical technology serials like Scientific American and American Machinist, and the American Trade Literature collection<http://library.si.edu/trade-literature>, which includes 300,000 catalogs, technical manuals, and advertising brochures for some 30,000 firms, primarily from 1880-1945. For a comprehensive catalog of objects, manuscripts, images and research materials available at the NMAH (and other Smithsonian units), see http://www.collections.si.edu/. Topics: The Lemelson Center invites all applications covering the broad spectrum of research topics in the history of technology, invention, and innovation. However, the Center especially encourages proposals that align with one (or more) of its strategic research and programmatic areas, including 1) projects that illuminate inventors from diverse backgrounds or any inventions and technologies associated with under-represented groups, such as women, minorities, LGBTQ, and the disabled; (2) projects exploring innovation in sports and sports technology; or (3) projects that explore the broader ecosystem of individuals and institutions that support inventors, including inventors' professional organizations; angel investors, venture capitalists, and financiers; incubators and entrepreneurial coaches; patent agents and IP attorneys; product designers, manufacturers, and marketers; and bankruptcy-liquidation specialists. The Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship supports the work of an experienced author or senior scholar (associate/full/emeritus professor level or equivalent) from the history of technology, science and technology studies, business history, museum studies, STEAM education, or an allied field. The specific arrangement is flexible: the Molella Fellow may use the funds as a sabbatical supplement; for several short-duration visits; for a virtual appointment focused on research and writing; or for a series of lectures leading to a major publication. The stipend is $35,000. Funds may be used flexibly to support teaching buyouts, travel for several short-term visits, living expenses for longer residences up to six months, and related research expenses. Dates are flexible and we expect that fellows may wish to pursue the fellowships virtually during the pandemic. Applications are due 1 November 2021. For application procedures and additional information, see http://invention.si.edu/arthur-molella-distinguished-fellowship. Applicants may wish to consult with the fellowship coordinator before submitting a proposal; contact historian Eric S. Hintz, PhD at +1 202-633-3734 or hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu>. The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program (all ranks) is suspended for 2022-2023; we are not accepting applications. However, to learn more see http://invention.si.edu/lemelson-center-fellowship-program. The Lemelson Center Travel to Collections Award Program (all ranks) is suspended for 2022-2023; we are not accepting applications. However, to learn more see http://invention.si.edu/lemelson-center-travel-collections-awards. Program Alumni: Click the links to see project descriptions for past and current fellows<https://invention.si.edu/lemelson-center-fellows-1996-present> and travel grantees<https://invention.si.edu/lemelson-center-travel-collections-awards-recipien…>! _________________ Eric S. Hintz, PhD (he/him), Historian, Lemelson Center Office +1 202-633-3734 | Mobile +1 610-717-7134 |Fax +1 202-633-4593 Email hintze(a)si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> | americanhistory.si.edu<http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/> | invention.si.edu<http://www.invention.si.edu/> Author, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/american-independent-inventors-era-corporate…> (MIT Press, 2021) Co-editor, Does America Need More Innovators?<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/does-america-need-more-innovators> (MIT Press, 2019)

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