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