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Innovative Lives: Jessica O. Matthews (February 10)
by Hintz, Eric 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

**Hi SIGCIS subscribers - join us for an upcoming Zoom program featuring inventor-entrepreneur Jessica O. Matthews. Her company, Uncharted Power, has developed IoT-enabled street and sidewalk pavers, power lines, and water pipes, demonstrating what the Maintainers might call "innovation in infrastructure maintenance." Hope you can join us! Eric Hintz On Wednesday February 10, we invite you to join the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation<https://invention.si.edu/> online for Innovative Lives: Jessica O. Matthews, featuring Nigerian-American inventor and CEO Jessica O. Matthews. Innovative Lives: Jessica O. Matthews Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Time: 4:00-5:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://unchartedpower.eventbrite.com/ Jessica O. Matthews is the Founder & CEO of Uncharted Power<https://www.u-pwr.co/>, an award-winning, sustainable infrastructure company that transforms the ground beneath us into an industrial IoT platform for streamlining the integration, deployment, and management of critical infrastructure such as power lines, broadband, sidewalks, and water pipes. Jessica's career started at the age of 19 with her invention of the SOCCKET, an energy-generating soccer ball. At the age of 22, Jessica founded Uncharted Power as a power solutions company before expanding to integrated infrastructure solutions. In 2016, she raised the largest (at the time) Series A funding round ever secured by a Black female founder. During the live program, Matthews will share stories about her background, inspirations, and inventions leading to 12 patents. The program will be moderated by Monica M. Smith, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation at the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. About Innovative Lives: Now in its 25th year, the Lemelson Center's Innovative Lives program series<https://invention.si.edu/tags/innovative-lives-program> gives participants the opportunity to engage in a public conversation with diverse inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs about their pioneering work and careers. Accessibility: The National Museum of American History welcomes visitors of all ages and abilities. CART captioning will be available for this program. Additional accommodations are available upon request; please email nmahprograms(a)si.edu<mailto:nmahprograms@si.edu>. P.S. Our online guests may also be interested in the Lemelson Center's recent webinar series, Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives<https://invention.si.edu/black-inventors-and-innovators-new-perspectives>. Click the link for details and videos of all five sessions! _________________ 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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History of Computing videos - by theme
by Dag Spicer 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

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Historical short films in the History of Computing
by Dag Spicer 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hi Everyone! As we are on the topic of short history of computing films, check out the Computer History Museum’s online video gallery of over 100 3-4 minute films covering a vast array of history of computing topics: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/search/video?q=videos Cheers, Dag —— Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 dspicer(a)computerhistory.org<mailto:dspicer@computerhistory.org>

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vacancy postdoctoral researcher in digital media
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Postdoc opportunity in Finland for study (non-historical) of social media platforms. Finland has repeatedly been ranked the world’s happiest country, and recently overtook the US in Bloomberg’s index of innovative countries. Von: carpentier nico <nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be <mailto:nico.carpentier@vub.ac.be> > Datum: 4. Februar 2021 um 14:01:15 MEZ An: commlist(a)commlist.org <mailto:commlist@commlist.org> Betreff: [Commlist] vacancy postdoctoral researcher in digital media Antwort an: no_reply(a)commlist.org <mailto:no_reply@commlist.org> The Faculty of Social Sciences and research project Media platforms and social accountability: Dynamics, practices and discourses (MAPS) invite applications for the position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL MEDIA To be appointed on a full-time basis for 22 months from 1 September 2021 onwards (or starting point as agreed). The successful applicant will join a research team of the project Media platforms and social accountability: Dynamics, practices and discourses funded by the Academy of Finland. Media platforms and social accountability: Dynamics, practices and discourses studies digital media platforms as crucial sites for social accountability processes and debates across global contexts. The project uses digital methods combined with qualitative approaches to examine the changing dynamics, practices and discourses of social accountability. The project produces new knowledge of the ways in which social media platforms intervene and influence accountability processes, both facilitating and threatening democratic participation. Further, it investigates how the accountability of platform companies is globally demanded and contested by governments and civil society actors, and how the platforms act to reclaim their legitimacy in response. QUALIFICATIONS An appointee to the position must hold a doctoral degree within media and communication studies or an adjacent field in the humanities, social sciences or data sciences. The default assumption is that the appointee will hold a doctoral degree before commencing work, and have the ability to conduct independent scientific work. The candidate is furthermore expected to demonstrate a background in one or more of the following fields: digital media studies, media policy research, media industry studies, global media studies, internet research. Previous experience in the collection and analysis of digital media data and digital methods is an asset. The successful applicant should also possess appropriate teaching skills in higher education. The duties of the postdoctoral researcher include teaching for the Faculty of Social Sciences (5% of the annual workload). The chosen applicant is expected to reside in Finland while employed by the University of Helsinki, and to participate actively in the intellectual life of the discipline of Media and Communication Studies and the wider scientific community across and beyond the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University of Helsinki. The Faculty of Social Sciences provides assistance in relocation. The working language will be English. WHAT WE OFFER We are an equal opportunity employer and offer an attractive and diverse workplace in an inspiring environment with a variety of development opportunities and benefits. The annual gross salary range will be approx. 41,000 – 50,000 euros, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and experience. In addition, University of Helsinki offers comprehensive services to its employees, including occupational health care and opportunities for professional development. Further information at https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/working-at-the-university <https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/working-at-the-university>. The employment contract will include a probationary period of six months. HOW TO APPLY Applicants are requested to enclose with their applications the following documents in English. Please compile all documents as a single pdf file: 1) Curriculum vitae, including list of publications 2) Research plan or Letter of Research Interests, in which the applicant outlines how his/her expertise would contribute to the research area (max. 2 pages) 3) Summary (max. 2 pages) of the applicant’s scholarly activities, including original research at an international level, international academic networks, local co-operation, success in obtaining research funding 3) Names and contact details of one or two referees Instructions about preparing the CV and list of publications and the documentation of teaching merits can be found in the following web address: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-social-sciences/faculty/applying-f... <https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-social-sciences/faculty/applying-for-…> Please submit your application through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System by clicking the link Apply for job. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to submit their application via the SAP HR portal, saphr.it.helsinki.fi. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information about the postdoc position, please contact PI Mervi Pantti; e-mail: mervi.pantti(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:mervi.pantti@helsinki.fi> <mailto:mervi.pantti@helsinki.fi>. Should you need support with the recruitment system, please contact minna.maunula(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:minna.maunula@helsinki.fi> <mailto:minna.maunula@helsinki.fi>. The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland, an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. In international university rankings, the University of Helsinki typically ranks among the top 100. The University of Helsinki seeks solutions for global challenges and creates new ways of thinking for the best of humanity. The Faculty of Social Sciences is Finland’s leading research and education institute in the social sciences, and the country’s most diverse social sciences faculty in terms of the range of its disciplines and fields of research. The Faculty has a strong international research profile and international Master’s programmes, and several of its disciplinary units have been rated among the top 50 in the world. The Faculty has a research and teaching staff of approximately 450, and each year it awards some 350 Bachelor’s degrees, 400 Master’s degrees and more than 40 doctoral degrees. We are an equal opportunity employer and offer an attractive and diverse workplace in an inspiring environment with a variety of development opportunities and benefits. For more information, please see the Faculty website at www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/ <http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/> <http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/>. Due date 28.02.2021 23:59 EET --------------- The COMMLIST --------------- This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely. -- To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/ -- Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/ -- To contact the mailing list manager: Email: nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be <mailto:nico.carpentier@vub.ac.be> URL: http://nicocarpentier.net ---------------

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ACM History Fellowships
by David C. Brock 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

I wanted to direct your attention to the February 15, 2021 deadline for applying for this year’s ACM History Fellowships. The program will support up to four projects for up to $4,000, including both history as well as preservation and access. The call for applications is here: https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ACM-fellowship_CFP_2021-… <https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ACM-fellowship_CFP_2021-…> Past recipients can be viewed here: https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowship-for-the-advance… <https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowship-for-the-advance…> Please consider applying! +++++++++++++++ David C. Brock dcb(a)dcbrock.net 40 Russell Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 Mobile: 413-522-3578 Skype: dcbrock Twitter: @dcbrock Pronouns: he, him, his

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New CBI Website/Pandemic times research w/ CBI materials (born digital/digitized collections online, oral histories, scanning services...)
by Jeffrey Yost 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, Wanted to share that we at the Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (CBI) did a complete redesign of the CBI Website (a major half year undertaking as we had 8,800 web pages!). CBI Archivist/Curator Amanda Wick and I helped, but the lion's share was done by CBI Admin. Melissa Dargay, who did a tremendous job! CBI's new website <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi> (Note the old URL has redirects to this, as do core areas such as *Interfaces*, collections, oral histories, etc). *In these pandemic times, I wanted to highlight that CBI has considerable material for primary research online. I was recently asked by a UMN HSTM faculty colleague to teach a graduate seminar session on CBI oral history methods/resources and other history of tech and science digital primary resources at CBI (and beyond). So thought I'd share a few things on our materials available remotely in case it might be helpful to you or your students.* - Before jumping to the digital resources, I will start with the readily digitizable/scannable. We have over 320 collections of print/manuscript materials--7,000 plus feet. Given detailed CBI Finding Aids, and the nature of particular collections, some are especially conducive to ascertaining smaller discrete portions where modest sized scanning orders can be placed (scanning is done at relatively low rates, basically at cost, by Univ. Libraries, we are a partnership of HSTM/CSE and UL). Plan well in advance as scanning orders done by limited staff in the library building to maintain safety, please check with Amanda. A few examples of such materials.... the wide ranging gray literature of the National Bureau of Standards Computer Lit. Collection (NBS collected all reports it could on computing from gov., industry, white papers, etc. for 30 years and NBS/NIST gave them to us) consists of 10,000s of reports on virtually all areas of computing from the 1950 to 1970s, every title is in the FA. Another example is the Social Issues in Computing Collection of ephemera, pamphlets, booklets, books, and manuscripts on computing and race, gender, labor, GBLTQIA... materials highly conducive to research in the social history and sociology of computing. - CBI has some exciting born-digital collections on such topics as Internet history and standards, Seymour Cray/Cray Research, graphics, etc. - About 500 oral histories available in full text online, most done by CBI historians on NSF, NEH, DARPA, and Sloan sponsored projects--we have special concentrations of oral histories in some of the core following areas, and are continually adding to our collection (I am currently doing two oral history projects, including one for ACM on HCI): - gender/women''s history of computing/software - computer security; computer networking - AI, ML - HCI - Graphics - Time-Sharing - CDC, IBM, IT industries - scientific computing, etc. - We have more than 275 shorter interviews with different categories of users of NSF's cyberinfrastructure FastLane (faculty, staff, program officers, developers designers, NSF top managers), all done by Tom Misa and me. Interviews rich for rhetorical analysis on IT and the history of science or other topics and framings wholly different from what Tom and I used them for in our *FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World* book. - Of CBI's 150,000 plus photographs many thousands of selected photographs have been scanned, especially in Burroughs and Control Data Collections but other people, firms, tech, settings, as well. To get started Search the CBI collections <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/search-cbi-collections-advanced-page> Amanda and I are always delighted to advise and assist with our collections and their use. Also, if you haven't read the Smithsonian's Paul Ceruzzi's recent essay on the infrastructure and materiality of the cloud in *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews* in Computing and Culture, Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> please check it. *And please consider writing an essay for Interfaces. We have some very exciting material in the works. Please add to it!!!* 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 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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Assistant Professor of Chinese-language media cultures, WashU in St. Louis
by Reem Hilu 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear SIGCIS members, Washington University in St. Louis is hiring an Assistant Professor of Chinese-language media cultures. Details below. Link to application: https://apply.interfolio.com/83720 *Assistant Professor of Chinese-language media cultures* *WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Program in Film and Media Studies – Assistant Professor. *The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Program in Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis invite applications for a tenure-track joint appointment (75% EALC, 25% FMS) in Chinese-language media cultures within the context of globalized communication. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, home based in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and will begin in the fall semester of 2021. Strong candidates will have a firm grounding in humanities-based media studies with expertise in two key areas: 1) research relating to media and Chinese identity (as experienced in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and in Chinese communities around the globe), with a desired emphasis on digital communications media (e.g. social media platforms) or film; and 2) digital humanities or cultural analytics approaches that dramatically enhance research horizons related to cultural identity and diversity through sophisticated data analysis and visualization, multimodal scholarly projects, or related practices. The successful candidate will possess the interdisciplinary expertise needed to provide training in Chinese-language media cultures and systems, information literacy, and the global history, theory, and/or production of digital media. Potential areas of emphasis include, for instance, civic media and communication, activist media, and authoritarian media policy. A Ph.D. in the field of East Asian studies and/or film and media studies, or a closely related field, is required at the time of appointment. For full consideration, candidates must have the preparation to teach introductory or survey courses on the history, theory, and analysis of digital media, and/or digital media production/analytics. The candidate should have native or near native fluency in both Chinese and English and research-appropriate abilities in Chinese language. Duties will include teaching assigned courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, normally two per semester. Of the four courses to be offered during the academic year, one will be assigned by the Program in Film and Media Studies. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active research and publishing program. Duties will further include student advising and appropriate departmental and university service activities. Application materials should include curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement, a writing sample of no more than 35 pages, two course syllabi (one at the graduate level and the other at the undergraduate level), three letters of recommendation, and teaching evaluations. These materials and three letters of reference should be uploaded to Interfolio [ https://apply.interfolio.com/83720] Questions about the position may be addressed to Lingchei Letty Chen, search committee chair, at ealc(a)wustl.edu. Applications received before March 10 will receive full consideration. Consideration after that date will be at the discretion of the search committee. Diversity and Inclusion are core values at Washington University, and the strong candidate will demonstrate the ability to create inclusive classrooms and environments in which a diverse array of students can learn and thrive. *An Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer:* Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity and especially encourages applications by those underrepresented in their academic fields. It is the University’s policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information. *Clery Statement: *Each year Washington University publishes a Safety and Security brochure that details what to do and whom to contact in an emergency. This report also publishes the federally required annual security and fire safety reports, containing campus crime and fire statistics as well as key university policies and procedures. You may access the Safety and Security brochure at https://police.wustl.edu/clery-reports-logs/.

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Useful video clips of Turing Award winners
by thomas.haigh＠gmail.com 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hello SIGCIS, For some years I've had a little side job for the ACM as editor of the Turing Award website: https://amturing.acm.org/. This centers on short biographical profiles of the awardees. https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm Most of the heavy lifting to get those written, edited, and posted was carried out by the founding editor, Mike Williams. ACM has been running a major initiative to get video history interviews performed with as many of the living Turing awardees as possible. In some cases they have borrowed existing interviews performed by other organizations, but most of the featured interviews are newly conducted and range from one to four hours. The majority are conducted by fellow computer scientists or journalists with only a handful by historians, so there's considerable variation in tone, interview strategy and topics covered from one interview to another. We have attached the full video interviews to the profiles, via "Video Interview' icon near the top of the profile. All together, there are currently 35 video interviews, all available on YouTube: https://www.acm.org/turing-award-50/turing-laureate-interviews. It turned out that not many people were clicking over from the profiles to watch the videos, and that YouTube is more excited by unboxing and cat videos than long interviews with eminent computer scientists. So the ACM History Committee sponsored me to edit down short (mostly 3 to 6 minute) clips from the long interviews and embed them in the biographical profiles. These clips might also be useful for those of you teaching computer science courses or history or STS courses that touch on the contributions of the awardees. You can browse the full list at <https://www.youtube.com/c/turingawardeeclips/videos> https://www.youtube.com/c/TuringAwardeeClips/videos On the computer science side the relevance should be fairly obvious, as I tried to prepare at least one clip for each awardee focused on their most famous contributions. So you could show Hoare explaining quicksort or CSPs, Lamport on the bakery algorithm, Knuth on TeX or The Art of Computer Programming, Cook on why P=NP matters, Liskov on the Liskov Substitution Principle and so on. Here are some examples of videos that might be useful for certain history or STS courses: Feigenbaum on editing Computers and Thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfr2GnWNYzg Kahan and Cerf on why the ARPANET was built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXTuu7i4hEY Knuth on early compiler writing (and why he decided not to do it for a living): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlEQwB0m0I Brooks on writing The Mythical Man Month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhDvZ17f2nU Hellman on the definition of public key encryption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1Aao1hc8g <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1Aao1hc8g&t=12s> &t=12s Rivest on the origins of RSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1I1LC1DpeA Allen on joining IBM and teaching FORTRAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcyOIkhDk1s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcyOIkhDk1s&t=11s> &t=11s Backus on the creation of FORTRAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpj84F9-io Stonebraker on building INGRES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da-1IJH2OQ Blum on creating CAPTCHA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7FmOaLJfLw Goldwasser on Berkeley's computer science department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jP7aShw80 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jP7aShw80&t=134s> &t=134s Bachman on IDS, the first database management system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncvHOLg1bU <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncvHOLg1bU&t=28s> &t=28s Kahan on the HP programmable calculators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBw7tnRx1c <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBw7tnRx1c&t=294s> &t=294s Reddy on Graduate School with John McCarthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pBxEL-N-o <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pBxEL-N-o&t=22s> &t=22s Also, if you need cheering up, watch Micali on how he barely survived graduate school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVt8S91P0g <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVt8S91P0g&t=80s> &t=80s. Or if you want to despair at how the academic job market today is not like that in the early days of CS, hear Hopcroft explain how he was hired at Princeton without having published anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1SqHUdzk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1SqHUdzk&t=19s> &t=19s Best wishes, Tom

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Reminder: ACM History Fellowship - Call for Proposals - due 2/15/21
by Tracy, Kim 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, The link below provides an announcement to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2021 fellowship competition for research projects on or centrally related to ACM history. The ACM History Committee runs this program, which has resulted over 35 fellowships awarded<https://history.acm.org/projects-and-initiatives/fellowship-for-the-advance…> since the start of this fellowship program in 2009. Many of these awards have gone to scholars (graduate students to senior scholars) in the SHOT and SIGCIS communities. The submission deadline for proposals is February 15, 2021. See https://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ACM-fellowship_CFP_2021-… for proposal submission requirements and further details. Thanks, --Kim Kim W. Tracy Visiting Asst. Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering (he/him/his) ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5500 Wabash Avenue | Terre Haute, IN 47803-3999 Room: Moench D216 | tracy(a)rose-hulman.edu<mailto:tracy@rose-hulman.edu> Phone: 812.877.8343 | Fax: 812.877.8343 www.rose-hulman.edu<http://www.rose-hulman.edu>

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first CfA HaPoC-6 2021, 27-29 Oct, Zurich, Switzerland
by lidemol 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear all, I am happy to send you the first call for abstracts of HAPOC-6 which is currently planned as a hybrid event in Zürich, 27-29 October 2021. We will also have some grants for young scholars and scholars who do not have any institutional support -- details on that will be published later, with best wishes, Liesbeth *HaPoC 2021: Call for Abstracts* 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing 27-29 October 2021 ETH Turing Centre, Zurich, Switzerland Website: https://hapoc2021.sciencesconf.org Email: hapoc2021(a)sciencesconf.org While computing appears as a technological and scientific field in constant progression, our conception and knowledge of computers are also subject to change over time. In particular, digital machines of the 20th century were inspired by the biological individual, replacing with a solipsistic mental view the cultural and social aspects attached to the image of machines in the 19th century. However, the growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing in our days in all dimensions of social life. Not only have cultural phenomena increasingly become the object of computational analysis, but computational practices have also proved inseparable from the cultural environment in which they evolve. Therefore, it is urgent to critically address the entanglement of computing practices with the main cultural challenges our epoch is facing. The global and collective nature of such problems (e.g. climate change, global pandemics, systemic inequalities, resurgence of totalitarianism, to name a few) requires a comprehensive perspective on computing, where social and cultural aspects occupy a central position. For these reasons, thinking about machines asks today for an interdisciplinary approach, where art is as necessary as engineering, anthropological insights as important as psychological models, and the critical perspectives of history and philosophy as decisive as the axioms and theorems of theoretical computer science. For more than a decade, the “History and Philosophy of Computing” Conference (HaPoC, www.hapoc.org) has contributed to building such an interdisciplinary community and environment. We aim to bring together historians, philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, designers, manufacturers, practitioners, artists, logicians, mathematicians, each with their own experience and expertise, to take part in the collective construction of a comprehensive image of computing. *Main Topics* For HaPoC 2021, we welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary horizons who intend to participate in the debate on the impact of computers on culture, science, and society from the perspective of their area of expertise, and who are open to engage in interdisciplinary discussions across multiple fields. Topics include but are not limited to: - Historical and philosophical perspectives on computing knowledge, objects and practices - Social, cultural and pedagogical aspects of computing - Computing and the human sciences - Epistemological dimensions of computing - Impact of computing technologies - Computing and the arts The Program Committee is available at the conference website https://hapoc2021.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4 *How to submit* We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the Conference to submit a short abstract of 180-200 words and an extended abstract of at most 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2021 Accepted papers will be presented in 30-minute slots, including discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without an extended abstract will not be considered. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: April 15, 2021 Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2021 Conference dates: October 27-29, 2021 *Confirmed keynote speakers:* Barbara Liskov (MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab) Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki) Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) *Publication* A selection of revised contributions to the Conference will be published in a Special Issue of Minds and Machines (Springer), under the title “Computing Cultures”. The call is already available at: https://www.springer.com/journal/11023/updates/18800754 *Format and Fee* Due to the current pandemic situation, HaPoC-6 will take place in a hybrid format, with attendance and contributions both on-site and online. The registration fee for contributors (both online and on-site) will be announced soon. Following previous HaPoC editions, a usual low fee is expected. Online contributions are expected to be in real time, although pre-recorded talks will be accepted on request. Attendance (both online and on-site) will be free of charge. *Travel Grants* The Turing Centre Zurich and the HaPoC Council will propose a limited amount of travel grants to participants with accepted papers who are not beneficiaries of institutional support. More information will be soon made available on the conference webpage and through the HaPoC website (www.hapoc.org) *Organizers* Chairs: Juan Luis Gastaldi (ETH Zurich, Turing Centre Zurich) Luc Pellissier (Université de Paris-Est Créteil) Organized by: Turing Centre Zurich (ETH) www.turing.ethz.ch In collaboration with: Collegium Helveticum (ETH-UZH-ZHdK) www.collegium.ethz.ch Chair of History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences (ETH Zurich, D-GESS) https://hpm.ethz.ch Under the auspices of DHST/DLMPST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) www.hapoc.org

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