Dear colleagues,
Next Thursday, on October 8 at 12:00-13:30 PM EDT, the CHSTM History of Computing Working Group will have a monthly online meeting, and we are pleased to welcome
Pooja Shyamsundar, presenting their work-in-progress "
Dead Cipher Walking: The Long Retirement of Triple Data Encryption Standard and its Institutional Afterlife (1977-2025)."
The draft may be found on the
working group page as an attachment to the October meeting, with the meeting Zoom link in the same page. If you're interested, please read it and come prepared with feedback and questions for Pooja. If you are new to the CHSTM (Consortium for the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine), please join the consortium first by
registering your account and then
joining our working group.
Prospect speakers are welcome! Please submit your work on the history of computing (broadly construed) through the
CHSTM's
call for paper proposals, using the "Submit a Proposal" link at the bottom.