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Apple @ 50 Event -- Computer History Museum
by Dag Spicer 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Hey Everyone, I’m delighted to let you all know that the Computer History Museum has a spectacular celebration of Apple’s 50th anniversary coming up March 11 @ 7:00 p.m. Pacific time. Event is in-person AND on-line. On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in history—shaping not only products, but culture, design, and how billions of people interact with technology every day. Join the Computer History Museum for a special CHM Live evening celebrating Apple’s first half-century, featuring a conversation with leaders who helped guide the company through pivotal moments of re-invention, growth, and global impact. From the early garage days of the 1970s, to the heyday of the Macintosh in the 1980s, to Apple's transformation in the 2000s with the iPhone, the program will explore how Apple repeatedly redefined itself while holding fast to a distinctive vision of products, “for the rest of us." Join us for a landmark anniversary celebration as only CHM does it, honoring one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic companies, fifty years in to its continuing history-making legacy. Speakers from across the eras of Apple history include former Apple CEO John Sculley; Senior Employee Chris Espinosa (Apple employee #8); former Senior Vice President (SVP) of Hardware Engineering, Jon Rubinstein (by video);,and former Chief Software Technology Officer and SVP of Software Engineering, Avie Tevanian. Our host for the evening is the wonderfully funny and engaging tech journalist, Mac fan, and correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, David Pogue. Sign up soon… spots are going fast: https://computerhistory.org/events/apple-at-50/ See you then! Dag ----- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ACM History Committee 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View CA 94043 “History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990). Join our Mailing List here: https://info.computerhistory.org/subscribe

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Philly Compuseum's "ENIAC Founders, Families and Futures - 80 Years On" in West Chester, PA and online (free) on Sunday 2 to 4pm Eastern
by Jeffrey Yost 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues, The new Philadelphia Compuseum (honored to have just been added to the Advisory Board) is holding a 2 hour (online) conference event, and 4 hour (at the museum) festivities with reception, an ENIAC cake, etc. (the cake has candied vacuum tubes and all, but photos can hold up SIGCIS posts so you can see it at the Compuseum website if interested). The online Program is 2-4pm Eastern on Sunday and is free, a Zoom meeting. It will have talks by a combination of some historians such as Kathy Kleiman, Paul Ceruzzi and me; some talks by the daughters, sons, and grandchildren of John Mauchly, J. Presper-Eckert, Jean Bartik.... such as John Mauchly and Kay McNulty's son Bill Mauchly. The Compuseum is early in the formative stages without a location yet. It will be seeking a physical location in Philadelphia in the near future. The Compuseum is partnering with a large museum in the Philly Metro, the American Helicopter Museum, for the ENIAC Event. Hope to see some of you in person (I am going to Philly and will present in person) or online. Best, Jeff [Cut and pasted text from the Compuseum is below] *80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIACAmerican Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PAFebruary 15th, 2026 (Sunday)* *Sign Up Here:https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration <https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration> (online attendance is FREE)$20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required.* The year 2026 marks 80 years since the public unveiling of ENIAC on February 15, 1946, a moment widely recognized as the birth of the modern computer age. ENIAC — the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was the world’s first all‑electronic, programmable, general‑purpose computer, and its debut fundamentally reshaped science, engineering, and society. 🖥️ Why ENIAC Was Revolutionary ENIAC was developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. It was originally designed to compute complex ballistic trajectories for the U.S. Army during World War II — calculations that previously took human mathematicians days or weeks. Key breakthroughs included: • Fully electronic operation using vacuum tubes • Programmability (though rewiring was required) • Massive speed improvements over mechanical calculators • A design that inspired generations of computer architectures Many historians consider ENIAC one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. 🗓️ How the 80th Anniversary Is Being Celebrated Several organizations and communities are marking the anniversary with events, exhibitions, and educational programs: World Computer Day 2026 The global theme for 2026 is “ENIAC 80th Anniversary: The Computer That Changed the World.” Events highlight: • ENIAC’s global impact • The stories of its founders and their families • How wartime innovation shaped modern computing Local Celebrations in Pennsylvania Given ENIAC’s Philadelphia roots, regional institutions are especially active. For example, a museum in West Chester, PA is hosting exhibits commemorating the unveiling and exploring ENIAC’s legacy in the digital age. ENIAC Day – February 15 Each year, ENIAC Day raises awareness of the machine’s contributions and honors the people who built and operated it. The 80th anniversary gives this annual celebration special significance. 🧭 Why This Anniversary Matters Today The ENIAC anniversary isn’t just nostalgia — it’s a reminder of how quickly computing has evolved. In 1946, ENIAC filled a room and consumed massive amounts of power. Today, your phone outperforms it by orders of magnitude.iAC But the conceptual leap ENIAC represented — that machines could be fully electronic, programmable, and general‑purpose — is the foundation of everything from laptops to AI. - If you are interested in celebrating with us, sign up below... Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST). Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) in the museum Auditorium, Afterwards is 1 hour duration "meet and greet". Museum closes at 5PM (EST). This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform. Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration (online attendance is FREE) $20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required. Event Title: ENIAC Founders, Families and Futures - 80 Years On *Presentation on Zoom and in Auditorium* Kickoff By: Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes Keynote - Kathy Kleiman - "The Incredible People of the ENIAC Team: Why We Still Celebrate Them 80 Years Later." A Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People by Author- "Proving Grounds; The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer." Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/0eu2p78z (Confirmed - In person) Brian Stuart - "The ENIAC in Context" A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing's work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person) Paul Ceruzzi - "Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On" Author "A New History of Modern Computing" book along with Tom Haigh. (Confirmed Virtual) Tom Burick - "How Today's High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!" IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. Also, presentation by student leader Ethan Myers. (Confirmed, In Person) Bill Mauchly - "Giant Brain Takes Over the World" the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Chris Eckert - "Recollections of My Dad" First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual) Gini Mauchly - "What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful." First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Naomi Most - "Did my IT career result from my DNA" Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual) Dr. Tim Bartik - "Recollections of My Mother". Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual) Jeffrey Yost - "The ENIAC's Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing" Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person) Paul Shaffer - "How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight" ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person) Kenneth Chaney "See PENN's Supercomputer" with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer) https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/ (Confirmed, On Site) Q&A Session - 10 Minutes - Audience asks Questions directed to speakers. Moderated by Jim Scherrer and Kathy Kleiman Show & Tell - See quadcopter, ENIAC 3D models and members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia. Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum) Group Photo in front of the Auditorium. 1 hour "ENIAC Cake" party at the museum (4-5PM) then after-party. ** * * * * ** *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * *Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture* *Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota* *Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press, co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz) <https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> * *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>* *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press <https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> *Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)

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Conference "Computer in Deutschland", November 7th-8th, Paderborn (Germany)
by Martin Schmitt 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

Dear SIGCIS, I hope everyone of you returned home safely from Luxembourg last week. It was awesome to see so many of you there at SHOT. So many good panels on the history of computing! Who still hasn’t enough (and is able to understand German), I just wanted to invite you to a conference on „Computer in Germany. New perspectives in History of Computing and Computer Archeology“. ("Computer in Deutschland“) The conference takes place on the of the 100th anniversary of Heinz Nixdorf in Paderborn, Germany, on November 7th-8th. I’m co-organizing the conference with my colleague Stefan Höltgen with the support of the Historical Institute Paderborn, the German Society for Computer Science (GI) and the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, on of the largest computer museums in the world. Conference language is German, the conference is free. Please find attached the program and the poster. Best Martin Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | digital enthusiast UNIVERSITÄT PADERBORN Historisches Institut Zeitgeschichte, Neuere & Neuste Geschichte, Digital History https://www.uni-paderborn.de/person/100968 Tel.: +49 5251 60-2428 Zuletzt erschienen: Schmitt, Martin: „Socialist AI? Societal Use, Economic Implementation, and the Tensions of Applied Computer Science in Late Socialist GDR“, in: IEEE Annals Hist. Comput. (2023), S. 66-79.

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] SIGCIS 2026 Known Error (Berkeley, CA) | Abstracts due Mon, 2/23
by Gili Vidan 11 Feb '26

11 Feb '26

Dear SIGCIS Community, *The deadline for submitting proposals to SIGCIS 2026 annual meeting has been extended to Mon, 2/23.* Our theme for this year’s meeting is "Known Error.” *Please see the full CFP here. <https://meetings.sigcis.org/> *We will gather at the School of Information, UC Berkeley in June 17-18, 2026, but will also have options for virtual participation. This year we are accepting submissions for individual papers, pre-constituted panels of 3-4 papers, software demos, roundtables, and other formats. We are also once again running our graduate student works-in-progress (WIP) closed session, where students can share draft chapters or article manuscripts with a more senior SIGCIS community member and receive feedback. If you would like to serve as a WIP mentor but are not otherwise submitting a proposal to SIGCIS, please reach out to us at sigcis.conference(a)gmail.com. We are also excited to announce that this year's *keynote, **"Computing in the Age of Decolonization,"* will be delivered by* Dwai Banerjee, <https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/>* <https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/>Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT. Bio: What new perspectives about the history and practice of science, technology, and medicine emerge when we foreground the intellectual labor of thinkers and practitioners from the Global South? Dwaipayan Banerjee's work centers the lives and creative visions of scientific practitioners in South Asia, challenging scholars to reorient how we understand the past and future of science, technology, and medicine. He is an Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of *Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi* (Duke Univ Press), * Hematologies: The political life of blood in India* (Cornell Univ Press) and * Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution* (forthcoming, Princeton Univ Press). Please help us circulate the call and deadline extension widely by forwarding the announcement to your own networks and communities! Looking forward to seeing you in-person or virtually this summer! With best wishes, The SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee: Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Co-Chair) Katya Babintseva <https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>, Purdue University Jason Ludwig <https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/>, University of California, Santa Barbara Colette Perold <https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University of Colorado, Boulder Honghong Tinn <https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn>, University of Minnesota Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University (Vice-Chair of Meetings) --- Gili Vidan Assistant Professor | Information Science | Cornell University Pronouns: she/her

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Call for Applications: "Computer Class" Summer Institute at the Centre for Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto
by U of T Centre for Culture and Technology 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Hello, The Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto is currently inviting applications for the Summer 2026 iteration of "Computer Class<https://computerclass.ca/>”, its critical, creative, and historical computing institute for graduate students and practitioners in artistic, humanistic, and social-scientific fields who are interested in coding, computer history, and critical use of technology. Please share the following call for applications with graduate students and community members! Thanks so much, warmly, __ Talia Golland Digital Communications and Programming Coordinator The Centre for Culture and Technology Faculty of Information | University of Toronto cultureandtech.utoronto.ca<http://www.cultureandtech.utoronto.ca/> ________________________ [computerclass-2026_email.jpg] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "Computer Class" Summer Institute: JUNE 1-5 2026 Application Deadline: FEBRUARY 28 Computer Class is a one-week seminar-style institute for graduate students and practitioners in artistic, humanistic, and social-scientific fields who are interested in coding, computer history, and critical use of technology. Computer Class brings us back to primary school. We play, dream, doodle, futz, make, break, and debug computer programs. We draw pictures with code. We make our own chatbots. We read theory and philosophy and psychoanalysis. We work with primary documents from the history of computing. We learn new ways of getting on with these strange machines we call computers. We also decide how we spend our time together: Computer Class is participant-driven, dedicated to the question of what we actually want to do with our computers—and how to expand our desire for, with, and around computers. All are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to humanities and fine arts graduate students. Computer Class is targeted towards students in terminal degree programs, such as MFA or PhD programs. Participants should have substantial interest in digital media culture or aesthetics, the history of computing, creative, or expressive coding, media theory, critical code studies, or other relevant artistic or humanistic research practice. Learn more at computerclass.ca<http://computerclass.ca/>.

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ENIAC, 80 years later
by Ceruzzi, Paul 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

A celebration held at the Helicopter Museum, in the Philadelphia suburbs. Free to attend on-line. ________________________________ I’m taking the liberty of reposting an email from Jim Scherrer, head of the computer museum in Philadelphia. You can attend for free on-line. Don’t rag me on the question of “First”: I intend to address that topic in the brief talk I plan to give. Gearing up for 80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIAC Hello Friends of Compuseum- American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA February 15th, 2026 (Sunday) Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST). Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) in the museum Auditorium, Afterwards is 1 hour duration meet and greet. Museum closes at 5PM (EST). This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform. Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum $20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required. Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration Presentation on Zoom and in Auditorium <https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres…>[https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:…]<https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres…> Kickoff By: Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes Kathy Kleiman - “Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People” Author- Proving Grounds; Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/52qkpvl (Confirmed - In person or Virtual) Brian Stuart - “The ENIAC in Context” A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing’s work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person) Paul Ceruzzi - “Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On” Tom Burick - “How Today’s High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!” IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. (Confirmed, Virtual) Bill Mauchly - “Giant Brain Takes Over the World” the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Chris Eckert - “Recollections of My Dad” First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual) Gini Mauchly - “What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful.” First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Naomi Most - “Did my IT career result from my DNA” Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual) Dr. Tim Bartik - “Recollections of My Mother”. Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual) Jeffrey Yost - “The ENIAC’s Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing” Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person) Paul Shaffer - “How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight” ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person) Ken Chaney - “See PENN’s Supercomputer” with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC at the Betty Holberton Data Center - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer) https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/ (Confirmed, On Site) Show & Tell - “Audience Participation” Q&A session where audience members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia using the screen share option. If you have ENIAC equipment or memorabilia you’d like to “show off”, please let us know in advance. Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum) 1 hour cake party at museum (4-5PM) then after-party. Jim Scherrer, President and Founder

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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Our "Women in Computing" book display
by Brian Randell 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Hi Peter: Apologies for the delayed reply. I don’t have an exact list of the books currently in our display. Instead, I have the list of books, with their (UK) prices, which were sought for the display initially, not all of which could in the event be obtained. A number of colleagues on SIGCIS helped us decide what to include in this list - and what to exclude! Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 (0)786 7805578 URL = https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/brianrandell.html From: PETER ECKSTEIN <petereckstein(a)comcast.net> Date: Wednesday, 21 January 2026 at 16:02 To: Brian Randell <brian.randell(a)newcastle.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Our "Women in Computing" book display ⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. Brian, Some books I didn't recognize. Could you send us all a listing of the titles, etc.? Peter Eckstein On 01/20/2026 3:46 PM EST Brian Randell via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org> wrote: Hi: Last weekend I took a mixed party of about twenty visitors around the School of Computing at Newcastle University, mainly to see our historical computing display (some ten display cabinets). But I also showed them our display (see attached photo) of books “Women in Computing” - it was the one display that the visitors actually applauded! (It is sponsored by Sage Computing, and we have arranged that additional copies of all the books on display are borrowable from the University Library.) Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG EMAIL = Brian.Randell(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 (0)786 7805578 URL = https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/brianrandell.html _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org

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"Algorithms of Love" livestreamed at Computer History Museum Feb. 4
by Marc Weber 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

From 1960s computer dating to AI lovers – event on the history and future of online dating at the Computer History Museum and livestreamed on our YouTube channel, Wed. Feb. 4th: <https://computerhistory.org/events/algorithms-of-love/> [chm_live_love_website_924x551.jpg] Algorithms of Love<https://computerhistory.org/events/algorithms-of-love/> computerhistory.org<https://computerhistory.org/events/algorithms-of-love/> Best, Marc Marc Weber<https://computerhistory.org/profile/marc-weber/> Director & Curator, Internet History Program<http://computerhistory.org/nethistory> Computer History Museum he/him 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 810-1885 direct mweber(a)computerhistory.org<mailto:mweber@computerhistory.org> Follow us: CHM.org<https://computerhistory.org/> I Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/computerhistory> I X<http://www.twitter.com/computerhistory> I YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory> I Newsletter<https://www.computerhistory.org/subscribe> Co-founder, Web History Center and Project

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A little less than three weeks left till the Submission Deadline for SIGCIS 2026 Known Error
by Ekaterina Babintseva 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Dear SIGCIS Community, We are writing with a reminder that the due date to submit your proposals to SIGCIS 2026 annual meeting is a little less than three weeks from now — Mon, 2/16. Our theme for this year’s meeting is "Known Error.” Please see the full CFP here.<https://meetings.sigcis.org/> We will gather at the School of Information, UC Berkeley in June 17-18, 2026, but will also have options for virtual participation. This year we are accepting submissions for individual papers, pre-constituted panels of 3-4 papers, software demos, roundtables, and other formats. We are also once again running our graduate student works-in-progress (WIP) closed session, where students can share draft chapters or article manuscripts with a more senior SIGCIS community member and receive feedback. If you would like to serve as a WIP mentor but are not otherwise submitting a proposal to SIGCIS, please reach out to us at sigcis.conference(a)gmail.com<mailto:sigcis.conference@gmail.com>. We are also excited to announce that this year's keynote, "Computing in the Age of Decolonization,”’ will be delivered by Dwai Banerjee,<https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/> <https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/> Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT. Bio: What new perspectives about the history and practice of science, technology, and medicine emerge when we foreground the intellectual labor of thinkers and practitioners from the Global South? Dwaipayan Banerjee's work centers the lives and creative visions of scientific practitioners in South Asia, challenging scholars to reorient how we understand the past and future of science, technology, and medicine. He is an Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi (Duke Univ Press), Hematologies: The political life of blood in India (Cornell Univ Press) and Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution (forthcoming, Princeton Univ Press). Please help us circulate the call widely by forwarding the announcement to your own networks and communities! Looking forward to seeing you in-person or virtually this summer! With best wishes, The SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee: Morgan G. Ames<http://morganya.org/>, University of California, Berkeley (SIGCIS Co-Chair) Katya Babintseva<https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>, Purdue University Jason Ludwig<https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/>, University of California, Santa Barbara Colette Perold<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University of Colorado, Boulder Honghong Tinn<https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn>, University of Minnesota Gili Vidan<https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University (Vice-Chair of Meetings)

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The Adolescence of Technology
by Dag Spicer 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Just out… Dario Amodei, Anthropic chief: “Humanity needs to wake up” to dangers of AI. "I believe we are entering a rite of passage, both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species. Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it." Read his 20,000 word essay —The Adolescence of Technology — here: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology#4-player-pi… Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology darioamodei.com Dag ----- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ACM History Committee 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View CA 94043 “History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990). Join our Mailing List here: https://info.computerhistory.org/subscribe

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