Hello SIGCIS members,

We have now posted the current schedule for the 2010 workshop at www.sigcis.org/workshop10 along with a few other pieces of useful information. One of these is that registration for SHOT itself is required for the workshop, and the deadline for regular registration there is September 10.

Paul Edwards has now chosen a title for his keynote speech:  "Friction: Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity in the History of Information Infrastructures.” He’s also agreed to run the dissertations in progress session for us.

We still need a chair and commentator for one of the sessions and a commentator for another one – preferably people who are not already on the workshop program.

The abstracts are also online. If you want to make any further changes to your abstracts let Jeff Tang know – secretary@sigcis.org.

Another reminder: For those in the sessions based on precirculated material (the roundtable discussions, the works in progress session, and the dissertations in progress sessions) please remember that you need to send Jeff your full text PDF files so that he can add them to the website. The sooner the better for this, but the deadline is September 15.

I’m pasting the current version below, but we expect to make further updates so please always rely on the web version rather than what you see below.

Tom

Materiality & Immateriality in the History of Computing

Sunday October 3, 2010, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, Washington

	Stream A (room TBA)	Stream B (Room TBA)
9:00-10:30	Opening Plenary: Introduction to the Workshop and its Theme by Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Keynote Address: "Friction: Rethinking Speed, Power, and Possiblity in the History of Information Infrastructures" by Paul Edwards, University of Michigan
10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-12:00	Roundtable: Computers, Information and Society in the Classroom Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology (chair & organizer) Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania Eden Medina, Indiana University, Bloomington (withdrawn -- replacement TBA) (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by general discussion)	Roundtable: Science Fiction & the History of Computing David L. Ferro, Weber State University (chair & organizer) Janet Abbate, Virgina Tech Eric G. Swedin, Weber State University Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated documents, followed by general discussion)
12:00-1:30	Lunch break (group lunch option TBA)
1:30-3:30	Dissertations In Progress Chair/Commentator: Paul Edwards, University of Michigan “The Akademgorodok Computing Center (1958-1990)” Ksenia Tatachenko, Princeton University. “Digital Equipment's Rise and Fall, Could it Have Been Avoided?” Dave Goodwin, Birkbeck College London. “A History and Ethnography of the Cocoa Software Community.” Hansen Hsu, Cornell University. “Connecting Minds in a Multimedia Episteme: The Academic Supercomputer Centers and the Construction an Advanced Cognitive Infrastructure for the U.S. Research Community: 1983-1993” Kevin Walsh, University of California, San Diego. (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated dissertation proposals, to be discussed in turn by workshop participants)	Traditional Papers: Teaching & Showing Chair: Olga Pantelidou, University of Athens Commentator: TBA “The PLATO Computer-Based Education System: Teacher's Tool or Teacher?” Christopher MacDonald, Princeton University. “Car Navigation Systems – A History of Associative Clusters.” Tristan Thielmann, University of Siegen. “A Material History of Bits.” Jean-François Blanchette, UCLA. “Museums and the Material Culture of Video Games.” Petrina Foti, Smithsonian NMAH. (4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion)
3:30-4:00	Coffee break
4:00-6:00	Works in Progress Chair/Commentator: TBA “Multi-sided markets and on-line distribution of working papers: A brief history of NEP, 1993-2005.” Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester and Thomas Krichel (Long Island University & Novosibirsk State University, Russia). “Making Computers Logical: Edmund Berkeley’s promotion of logical machines.” Mai Sugimoto, Kyoto University. “Investing in interactive skills – a reinterpretation of the Swedish internet boom and bust, 1994–2004.” Gustav Sjöblom, Chalmers University of Technology . “Meta Filter: Coming to Agreement with Interactive Computer Technology.” Sharon Irish, UIUC. (Short presentations to introduce pre circulated papers, to be discussed in turn by workshop participants)	Traditional Papers: Place & Space Chair: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina. Commentator: Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics. “The Material History of Digital Electronics: The Development of Silicon Manufacturing Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor.” David C. Brock, Chemical Heritage Foundation & Christophe Lecuyer, University of California. “’The World Looks to Britain’: Technology Transfer, Heterogeneous Engineering, and British Computing Companies’ Attempt to Capture the Indian Market, 1955-1965.” Maria Hicks, Duke University. “Wat' Forever: Computing Education at the University of Waterloo.” Scott M. Campbell, University of Waterloo. “Materiality, modernity and space: The British banks and their computer centres, 1961–1963.” Ian Martin, Open University & University of Manchester. (4x20 minute presentations followed by a 10-15 minute comment and general discussion)