And it's probably also worth re-pointing-out that Tom will be one of our keynotes this year (along with Kavita Philip) at the special meeting of SIGCIS being held in March at the Computer History Museum. See here for more info: http://meetings.sigcis.org/ Additional invited speakers include Safiya Noble (UCLA), Mitali Thakor (Northwestern), and Sreela Sarkar (Santa Clara U). If you'd like to present at the meeting proposals are due Dec 30th. Best, Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:52 AM, David Golumbia <dgolumbia@gmail.com> wrote: I agree, and note that this builds on such as this amazing essay that (I presume) previews his forthcoming book on the topic, which goes into a lot more detail than the Atlantic piece: "The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism" https://history.stanford.edu/publications/moveable-typewriter-how-chinese-ty... David
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu> wrote: Way to go, Tom!
Thanks for sharing, Sarah.
Best,
Marie
______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing www.programmedinequality.com
On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Sarah T. Roberts <sarah.roberts@ucla.edu> wrote:
Of potential interest to many. I always appreciate work that decenters the myth of Western (American, typically) primacy in tech.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/5048...
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