SIGCIS members,
The special issue of Annals of the History of Computing on information technology and demography is now on line at the CSDL and IEEE Xplore:
www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2022/04
ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85
Contents:
Introduction: The IT of Demography, Emily Klancher Merchant, Myron P. Gutmann
Articles:
The Present of the Past: A Sociotechnological Framework for Understanding the Availability of Research Materials, Rebecca Jean Emigh, Johanna Hernández-Pérez
Computing Counterinsurgency: The Hamlet Evaluation System (HES) and Databasing During the Vietnam War, Moritz J. Feichtinger
When the New Magic was New: The Claritas Corporation and the Clustering of America, Fenwick McKelvey
The Missing Link: Data Capture Technology and the Making of a Longitudinal U.S. Census Infrastructure, Katie R. Genadek, J. Trent Alexander
Anecdotes department:
The Effects of Increases in Computing Power on Demographic Analysis Over the Last 50 Years, Barbara A. Anderson
Challenges of Large-Scale Data Processing in the 1990s: The IPUMS Experience, Diana L. Magnuson, Steven Ruggles
Book review department:
Review of Corinna Schlombs' Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technology From Mass Production to Computer Automation, Devin Kennedy
Events & sightings department:
A New Book About the First Business Computer, Hilary Caminer, Secretary, LEO Computers Society
Enjoy!
David Hemmendinger, EIC