Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
Dear all,
Jeff, many thanks for announcing this for me! Its publication while I was at a conference/on leave delayed my own announcement. I’ll forgo an additional email, but will give the full ToC here.
You can find the issue on the Computer Society Digital Library or IEEE Xplore according to your preference/subscription. Here is the table of contents:
Introduction to Automation by DesignGuest Editors’ Introduction
Digital Construction Comes to the Pacific Northwest: Timber and the Landscapes of AutomationTheme Articles: Automation by Design
Machinery of Ethnic Cleansing: Punched Card Machines and the 1920 Greek Population Census
Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office
Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in U.K. Software for Building Design, 1970–1980
The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production
Theme Think PieceComputing Racial Orderby Jason Ludwig
Konrad Zuse and Operation PaperclipDepartment: Anecdotesby Raúl Rojas
A Simulated Differential Analyzer
“The Computer in Motion”: Symposium Report From the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST)Department: Events and Sightings
Best,
Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw)
I often dictate messages due to motor disability; please forgive any oddities resulting.
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science / Uwch Darlithydd, Cyfrifiadureg
Swansea University / Prifysgol AbertaweEditor-in-Chief / Prif Olygydd, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
For students: my drop in hours are on the Intranet (office CoFo 407)
I fyfyrwyr: mae fy oriau swyddfa ar y fewnrwyd.Meeting booking: via Office Booking.
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Every email has a cost to the climate. Please think before sending short emails.
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On 19 Dec 2025, at 18:26, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
_______________________________________________CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Swansea University. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe.
RHYBUDD: Daeth yr e-bost hwn o'r tu allan i Brifysgol Abertawe. Peidiwch â chlicio ar atodiadau neu agor atodiadau oni bai eich bod chi'n adnabod yr anfonwr a'ch bod yn gwybod bod y cynnwys yn ddiogel.Many thanks to David Hemmendinger for a correction. Given there is only 2008 to 2022 content on MUSE for IEEE Annals now, there seems to be a few years delay, but it is available now at IEEE Xplore. David also pointed out that it is available on the IEEE Annals main page too as of today. (it was on Xplore a day earlier, yesterday). That CSDL IEEE Annals' URL is: computer.org/annals
Best, Jeff
Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D.Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & CultureResearch Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of MinnesotaStudies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."Blockchain & Society (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader)Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Wanted to share the news that our special issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing entitled "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn" came out yesterday!
It is now available on IEEE Xplore and soon will be on MUSE too. Colette Perold and my historiographically-contextualizing article "Introduction to Automation by Design" is open access as are a few of the articles (IEEE Digital Library, link below as a UMN z link, and many libraries subscribe to IEEE library & or MUSE where there is complete access). Special thanks to Honghong Tinn, who joined Colette, me, and Con on our 2023 CBI Symposium of the same name. It was an interdisciplinary event (History, STS, Sociology, Media Studies...) and this issue represents select historical-oriented articles. Articles and authors are listed below.
It was so wonderful to partner with tremendously gifted colleagues/friends Colette and Con on this issue and an honor for us to work with such an incredibly talented group of article authors writing cutting edge scholarship on the history of automation/"artificial intelligence"!!
Many thanks to IEEE Annals EiC Troy Astarte for helpful guidance throughout!
Happy holidays to everyone!
Best, Jeff* * * * * *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D.Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & CultureResearch Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of MinnesotaStudies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."Blockchain & Society (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader)Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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