ICHST, Budapest, July 28-August 2, 2009
 
Today the programme for the International Congress for History of Science and Technology in Budapest was released to its participants
The website does not have the full program yet
http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/
 
There are many intereresting sessions and symposia, a number of them directly related to History of Computing.
As one may expect on big conferences, these are scheduled largely overlapping
 
The program has standard themes T1-T40 and submitted Symposia S1-S96 each lasting between 1 and 6 two-hour timeslots.
 
Here are the sessions:
 

July 28, 3 slots

S 58, Iron curtains and immaterial instruments – The circulation of Software and Computer Science in Cold War Europe

 

July 28-29, 5 slots

S 35, History of Numerical Tables – the second meeting on history of exact sciences along the silk road

  

July 29, 2 slots

S 72, 60 Years of Cybernetics and Information Theory – Ideas, Artefacts and Instruments

 

August 1, 1 slot

T09-10, Computing Sciences and the Internet in the Contemporary Period

 

August 1, 4 slots

S45, The Antikythera Mechanism and its place in the history of science, technology and ideas

 

Plus a number of most interesting sessions on on technology in context, on Cold War, on instruments, e.g.

July 28, 2 slots

S 71, Instrumentalizing Social Practice – Socializing Instrumental Practice

 

Gerard Alberts