Hello SIGCIS members, This year SHOT meets jointly with the History of Science Society and the Society for Social Studies of Science. That makes the 3 combined programs a daunting read – 4S alone has more than 1,000 participants. 4S got going with a plenary Wednesday night, and SHOT starts on Thursday evening. The first section below just lists the “official” SIGCIS events. This year we have two SIGCIS organized panels in the main conference, the SIG lunch on Friday, and a full day SIGCIS workshop with two plenary and four regular sessions on Sunday with a dinner afterwards. That’s followed by a much longer listing of events of interest to SIGCIS members in all three conferences. I’ve tried (although I will inevitably have missed some) to include all IT-related SHOT and HSS sessions. For 4S the primary focus is not history and the conference is enormous, meaning there are too many interesting panels on things like women and IT to include all those with no historical angle. However I tried to include a somewhat random selection of relevant non-historical panels there with an IT focus to give an idea of what’s going on there. Hope to see many of you there over the next couple of days. For those of you who can’t make it, I hope the material below whets your appetite for the exciting and diverse range of work going on within our community. Tom SIGCIS Sponsored Events: Friday, 4 November 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM SHOT: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society lunch - Erie Friday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 22. Geographies of Computing: Straddling the Divide Between the Global and the Local - Salon A Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizers: Gerard Alberts and David Nofre (both University of Amsterdam) Chair & Commentator: Eden Medina (Indiana University) · Gerard Alberts (University of Amsterdam), David Nofre (University of Amsterdam), Mark Priestley · (University College London): From Local Practice to Common Knowledge: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Programming Languages, 1955-60 · Janet Toland (Victoria University of Wellington): Not All Links Are Equal: ICT Networks in New Zealand, 1985-2005 · Patryk Wasiak (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam): Hacking Across the Atlantic: HowYoung Hackers “Phreaked” Transatlantic Telephone Cables Saturday, 8:30-10:00 SHOT 28. Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software - Salon F Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizer: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Chair: David Hemmendinger (Union College) Commentator: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) · Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008 · Hansen Hsu (Cornell University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory · Joline Zepcevski (University of Minnesota) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Complexity, Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming ALL DAY SUNDAY SIGCIS WORKSHOP: CULTURES & COMMUNITIES IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING Salon B (includes both plenaries) Salon C 9:00-10:15 Opening Plenary: * "Designing and Using Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for History" Keynote Address by <http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Etmisa/> Thomas J. Misa, <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/> Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break and Presentation of the Computer History Museum Award 10:45-12:15 Dissertations in Progress: Questions of Identity and Embodiment in Computing Communities Moderator: <http://www.iit.edu/csl/hum/faculty/hicks_marie.shtml> Marie Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/ellcessor> Disability Online: Policies, Practices, and Representations of the Embodied Use of New Media," <http://lizellcessor.org/> Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Wisconsin-Madison * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/nikiforova> Careers and Achievements of the First Women Computer Scientists, 1960-1980," <http://www.prism.gatech.edu/%7Egtg939u/> Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology * <http://www.sigcis.org/node/291> "Dispatches from the Underground: Gendered Labour and Communications Technology in the remaking of London, 1870-1916," Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Johns Hopkins University (Short presentations of around 5 minutes each to introduce precirculated dissertation proposals, to be discussed by workshop participants) Paper Panel 1: Creating Culture through Materials and Methods Chair: <http://publichistorian.wordpress.com/> Suzanne Fischer, The Henry Ford Commentator: Alex Bochannek, <http://www.computerhistory.org/> Computer History Museum * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/kidwell> Preserving the Material Culture of Computing Communities," <http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12&staffkey=198> Peggy Kidwell, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/november> Macromodules, Miniaturization, and the CPU's Brief Removal from the Black Box," <http://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/faculty/novemberJ.html> Joseph November, University of South Carolina * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/stachniak> Before the Web, there was the NABU Network," <http://www.cse.yorku.ca/%7Ezbigniew/> Zbigniew Stachniak, York University, Toronto (Three 20-minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) 12:15-2:15 Lunch break (See program booklet for options) 2:15-3:45 Works in Progress: Why does the Study of How Communities are Formed Matter to the History of Computing? Moderator: <http://www.arussell.org/> Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/subramanian> Murray Turoff and the Birth of Computer Mediated Comunications," <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1601.xml?School=BU&Dept=CS&Person=23345> Ramesh Subramanian, Quinnipiac University * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/toland_yoong> The Learning Region Restructured," <http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sim/staff/janet-toland.aspx> Janet Toland and <http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sim/staff/pak-yoong.aspx> Pak Yoong, Victoria University of Wellington * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/mounier_kuhn> From Universal Project to Sunken Culture: Algol in France," <http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/52> Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne (Short presentations of around 5 minutes each to introduce precirculated papers, to be discussed by workshop participants) Paper Panel 2: Insider and Outsider Communities in the History of Computing Chair: <http://sts.stanford.edu/slayton.html> Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University Commentator: Kevin Walsh, UC San Diego * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/mcgee> Big Red, White, and Blue: Communities of Policy and Computing in Mainframe-era Washington, DC," <http://www.virginia.edu/history/user/137> Andrew Meade McGee, University of Virgina * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/collopy> Computing, Video, and Radical Software," <http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/pcollopy> Peter Sachs Collopy, University of Pennsylvania * " <http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11/olley> Punched Card Table Libraries as a Communal Resource," <http://individual.utoronto.ca/fofound/ultima/whoSGD.html> Allan Olley, University of Toronto (Three 20-minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion) 3:45-4:05 Afternoon Coffee Break 4:05-5:30 Closing Plenary: Cultures & Communities in the History of Computing Moderator: <http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Etmisa/> Tom Misa, <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/> Charles Babbage Institute * Alex Bochannek, <http://www.computerhistory.org/> Computer History Museum * <http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/medina-eden.shtml> Eden Medina, Indiana University, Bloomington * <http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details.php?PersonID=174> Nathan Ensmenger, University of Texas at Austin * <http://www.arussell.org/> Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology * <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/yost.html> Jeff Yost, Charles Babbage Institute (Short introductory statements from panelists of around 5 minutes each, to be followed by discussion between the panelists and audience of <http://www.sigcis.org/node/292> questions posed in advance by the panelists). Meet @6:15pm Walk from Marriott lobby to Strada restaurant. See program booklet for details. Other Relevant Items Note that the three conferences are in different hotels. 4S is in the Crowne Plaza, SHOT’s at the Marriott and HSS is at the Renaissance (appropriately enough). 4S 011. Mediating War after 1945 Thursday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Savoy Chair: Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan Participants: · InfoWar 2.0: Mobilizing Surveillance via Interactivity. Marc Andrejevich, University of Iowa · Mediating the Enemy: Drone Networks as Technologies of Risk Management. Peter Asaro, New School University · Infrared, Or, the Algorithmic Production of Visual Knowledge. Carolyn Lee Kane, Hunter College, CUNY · Soviet Networks and the Collapse of the Cold War Digital Mindset. Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa Discussants: Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara University Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan 4S 040. Internet: Use, Appropriation and Control Thursday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Newman Chair: Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School Participants: · Probing the Cloud: Rendering Publicly Visible Hidden Surveillance on the Internet Backbone. Andrew Clement, University of Toronto; Nancy Paterson, OCAD University; David J. Phillips, · University of Toronto Refracting the Self: Proana, Visual Culture and the Internet. · Stephanie Houston Grey, Louisiana State University From Online “Filter” to Web “Format”: Rethinking the Early Stabilization of the Blog. Ignacio Siles, Northwestern University · Testing Web Browser Compliance: Rhetorics of Standardization and Expertise. Nathan R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin‐‐Madison · Disclosure and Dialogue in the Internet Industry. Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School 4S 044. Skill, Labor and Identity in High‐Tech Occupations Thursday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Boardroom Chair: Mary Ebeling, Drexel University Participants: · Born to Research: Recent Reassertions of Biological Bases for Scientific Talent. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University · “Being Useful to Society”: Labor, Skills and Knowledge in Postindustrial Science. Mary Ebeling, Drexel University · Gender and Skill at the Dawn of Digital Computing. Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech · Gifted: Merit and Caste in the Making of Indian Technical Knowledge. Ajantha Subramanian, Duke University · Virtual Citizenship in the Global Age. Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin ‐ Milwaukee 4S 061. ICTs, Economics and Market Thursday 1:30 to 3:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Allen Chair: Isaac Quinn DuPont, University of Toronto Participants: · Our Knowledge Is Our Market: Commerciality and Materiality in Hackerspace and Hacklabs. Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University. · The Role of Gap‐analysis in the Procurement of Packaged Software. Alexander P. Kinney, Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas J Rowland, Pennsylvania State University · Media Publics: Modeling the Sociotechnical Network. Rachel O'Dwyer, Trinity College Dublin · Source Control: Competing and Complimentary Histories. Isaac Quinn DuPont, University of Toronto 4S 078. Latin America in the Global Cyberspace Thursday 3:30 to 5:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Van Sweringen Chair: Yuri V Takhteyev, University of Toronto Participants: · Future Tense: Information Work and Reform in Peru's “Innovation Classrooms." Anita Chan, University of Illinois · Free Software in Brazil: Politics and Practice. Yuri V Takhteyev, University of Toronto · The Charisma Machine: Discourses about OLPC from MIT to Paraguay. Morgan Ames, Stanford University · Orkut and Narratives about Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Dilton, Santos Maynard, Uinversidade Federal de Sergipe Friday: 8:30-10:00 SHOT 9. Superconductivity: From New Materials to New Devices - Salon A Organizer: Ann Johnson (University of South Carolina) Chair/Commentator: Trevor Pinch Cornell University · David Brock (Chemical Heritage Foundation): The Superconducting Cryotron, Materiality, and · Microcircuitry, 1954-64 · Cyrus Mody (Rice University): The Josephson Junction at IBM, 1968-83 · Ann Johnson (University of South Carolina): Superconductivity in the Field: Ford and the SQUID HSS: Friday, 9:00-11:45 New Views of the Antikythera Mechanism: A Geared Astronomical Computing Machine from the Second Century BCE Humphrey (3rd Floor) Chair: James Voelkel, Othmer Library of Chemical History 1. Albert Rehm and the Antikythera Mechanism, Alexander Jones, New York University 2. Ancient Greek Luni-Solar Calendars, John D. Morgan, University of Delaware 3. A Clockwork Bronze: The Calendar and ‘Olympiad Dial’ on the Antikythera Mechanism, Paul A. Iversen, Case Western Reserve University 4. The Planetary Extension for the Antikythera Mechanism: Statistics, Analysis and Reconstruction, Niels Bos, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute 5. Greek or Babylonian Solar Theory on the Antikythera Mechanism? *James Evans, University of Puget Sound 4S 101. Using ICTs Friday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Hanna Chair: Stephanie B Gokhman, University of Washington Participants: · Reliable Records and the Production of Scientific Credibility. Kathleen Fear, University of Michigan · Cybernetics as Apparatus and Assemblage. Alasdair McMillan, York University · Dimensions of Power: The Case within the Scientific Laboratory. Andrea Deyanira Beattie, Texas A&M International University; Marcus Ynalvez, Texas A&M International University · Marking Territory: Exerting Control over the Shape of Scientific Knowledge in Wikipedia. Stephanie B Gokhman, University of Washington; Jonathan Morgan, University of Washington; Behzod Sirjani, University 4S 109. The Fiction in the Science: The Intersection of Fiction and STS Friday 8:30 to 10:00 am Crowne Plaza: Boardroom Chair: David L Ferro, Weber State Univerity Participants: · Around the Techno‐scientist's Campfire: Science Fiction and the Undergraduate Engineer. David L Ferro, Weber State Univerity · Forensic Fictions: Science, Storytelling and Media Production. David Kirby, University of Manchester · Sex and Nobility: Fictional Love, Imagined Technology, and the Real Engineer. Joseph Pitt, Virginia Tech · Weird Tales to Weird Life: The Scientific Realization of Fictional Lifeforms. David Toomey, University of Massachusetts · Design Fiction: From Props To Prototypes. Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory Discussant: Paul E. Ceruzzi, National Air & Space Museum Friday 10:30-12:30 SHOT 13. Controlling Territories, Crossing Boundaries: Information and Communication Technologies Between Authoritarianism and Democracy – Salon E Organizer: Léonard Laborie (CNRS) Chair/Commentator: Pascal Griset (Paris-Sorbonne University) · Paul Edwards (University of Michigan): Translating Science into Politics? Computer Models From Limits to Growth to Nuclear Winter · Léonard Laborie (CNRS): “Users who Wanted to Matter: The French Association of Telecommunication Users and the Democratization of (the Telephone in) France, 1969-75” · Simone Müller-Pohl (Freie Universitat): As Easy as Speech and as Free as Air: Henniker Heaton's Attempts at Democratizing Global Communication, 1883-1914 · Larissa Zakharova (EHESS): Communication Technologies Serving Authoritarianism? Mail, Telegraph and Telephone as Tools of Governing in the USSR (1922-64) Friday, 4 November 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM SHOT: SIG on Computers, Information, and Society lunch - Erie Friday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 22. Geographies of Computing: Straddling the Divide Between the Global and the Local - Salon A Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizers: Gerard Alberts and David Nofre (both University of Amsterdam) Chair & Commentator: Eden Medina (Indiana University) · Gerard Alberts (University of Amsterdam), David Nofre (University of Amsterdam), Mark Priestley (University College London): >From Local Practice to Common Knowledge: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Programming Languages, 1955-60 · Janet Toland (Victoria University of Wellington): Not All Links Are Equal: ICT Networks in New Zealand, 1985-2005 · Patryk Wasiak (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam): Hacking Across the Atlantic: How Young Hackers “Phreaked” Transatlantic Telephone Cables The Long 1960s: Between Science and Counterculture HSS Friday, 1:30-3:30 Blossom (4th Floor) Chair: Marilyn Gaull, Boston University 1. A Search for Perspective: Project OZMA and the Drake Equation, Sierra Smith, James Madison University 2. Time, Physics, and Philosophy: The Discovery of CP Violation, Lisa Crystal, Harvard University 3. Popular Cybernetics and the Human Sciences in the Counterculture, Peter Sachs Collopy, University of Pennsylvania 4. The New Alchemy Institute: A Countercultural Alternative to Big Science, 1969-1980, Henry Trim, University of British Columbia 4S 143. The Dynamics and Consequences of ICTs Friday 1:30 to 3:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Hope Chair: Carmen James Schifellite, Ryerson University Participants: · The Rationalities Behind the Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure as Organizational Practices, Technical Infrastructures and Social Norms. Kerk F Kee, Chapman University; Larry D. Browning, Univ of Texas, Austin · Stabilizing Surveillance in Cloud Computing: Google's and Apple's OS's as Obligatory Passage Points. David J. Phillips, University of Toronto; Michael Murphy, U Toronto; Karen Pollock, U Toronto · Globalization with a Social Conscience? The World Wide Web Foundation through the Lens of ICT4D. Michael Dick, University of Toronto · Producing “Cocoa” Programmers at the “Big Nerd Ranch”. Hansen Hsu, Cornell University · The Impact of the World Wide Web on Normal and Revolutionary Science. Carmen James Schifellite, Ryerson University Saturday, 8:30-10:00 SHOT 28. Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software - Salon F Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society Organizer: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Chair: David Hemmendinger (Union College) Commentator: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) · Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008 · Hansen Hsu (Cornell University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory · Joline Zepcevski (University of Minnesota) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Complexity, · Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming Saturday 10:30-12:30 SHOT 37. The Tao of Innovation - Salon G Chair & Commentator: David Hounshell (Carnegie Mellon University) · Augustin Cerveaux (University of Strasbourg): The Shift to Titanium Pigments at Du Pont – a study of “materials ontology” (1927-36) · Benjamin Gross (Princeton University): Computer Research and the Development of Flat-Panel Displays at RCA · John Laudun (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Invention of a Traditional Amphibious Boat: A History of the Crawfish Boat · Katherine Dykes (MIT): NASA and the MOD Wind Turbine Development Program: Important · Contribution or Colossal Failure? 4S 183. The Physicality of the Virtual Saturday 10:30 to 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Hanna Chair: Matt Burton, University of Michigan Participants: · "The Internet Is Here": The Virtuality of Online Communities in Physical Spaces. R. Stuart Geiger, UC‐Berkeley · The Multiplexing of Multi‐space: Attention, Spatiality and Protest in Online Social Networks. Morgan Daniels, University of Michigan · Crowd Theory From the Street to the Screen. Finn Brunton, University of Michigan · Embodying the Free Encyclopedia: Wikipedia’s Materiality in Myth and Practice. Andrew Famiglietti, Georgia Institute of Technology · Virtual Place Attachment and the Physical Place. Raz Schwartz, Bar Ilan University Saturday, 12:30-2:00 SHOT: How to Give an Effective Academic Talk, Paul Edwards (University of Michigan) - Superior HSS Saturday, 12:00-1:15 A conversation with Fred Kronz of theNational Science FoundationHumphrey (3rd Floor) Come hear Dr. Kronz discuss in an informal setting the recent changes at the NSF, including the new data-management plans. 4S 194. STS Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation Saturday 12:15 to 1:15 pm Crowne Plaza: Owens Chair: Kelly Moore, National Science Foundation Saturday 2:00-3:30 SHOT 46. Expert Communities - Salon G Chair & Commentator: Ron Kline (Cornell University) · Erinn McComb (Mississippi State University): "It's Hip to Be Square": Individual Control, Masculinity, and Engineers within NASA, 1958-72 · Kevin Walsh (University of California San Diego) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: The Sons of Manhattan and the Winning of Supercomputer Access – The Tipping Point of National Security Decision Directive 189 · Søsser Brodersen, Ulrik Jørgensen, Andrés Valderrama (Technical University of Denmark): Environmental Engineering in Denmark · Lars Heide (University of Pennsylvania and Copenhagen Business School): Association for Computing Machinery as an Institutional Intermediary Between the Innovators, Producers, and Users in Shaping Mainframe Computers 4S 221. Narratives of Place in Communities of Exposure and Disaster Saturday 3:30 to 5:00 pm Crowne Plaza: Dolder Chair: Jody A Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation Participants: · Narratives of Toxics Mitigation at the IBM‐Endicott Site. Peter Little, Oregon State University Between Philly, Ambler and a Hard Place: Grids, Flows and Competing Place Narratives in Toxic Remediation. Raoul Lievanos, UC Davis; Jody A Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation · Cornucopia, Dystopia, Home: Placing Environmental Justice in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Jonathan K London, UC Davis · Not If, but When: Disaster Preparedness as Both Imagined and Situated Response. Natalie Danielle Baker, University of California, Irvine · After the Storm: Rebuilding a Sustainable Community. Heather Marsh, University of Maryland Saturday 9-Midnight 9-12 Midnight Hospitality Suite, sponsored by the History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, Salons F and G SUNDAY: ALL DAY SUNDAY SIGCIS WORKSHOP – SEE ABOVE!!