Dear colleagues, I am happy to announce that the third issue of 2026 for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is available, a special issue entitled ‘Computing and the Built Environment’. There is a wealth of material on this topic as well as some additional departments. Find it on the CSDL<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03> or IEEE Xplore<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=11710333&punumber=85>. Table of Contents. EDITORIAL From the Editor’s Desk<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711145/2kbn6hbsSqI> by Troy Astarte<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Troy&surname=Astarte> GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Editorial: Computing and the Built Environment<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711165/2kbn7PmVA88> by David Theodore<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=David&surname=Theodore>, Theodora Vardouli<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Theodora&surname=Vardouli> THEME ARTICLES: COMPUTING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Simulated Investments: From the Related Problems of Planning Tall Buildings to the Definition of Design Processes<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11557457/2hcZBjJXDoY> by Aaron Tobey<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Aaron&surname=Tobey> Computerized Complexity: Atelier Kroll’s Participatory Paysage Software<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11614810/2ihnLJPityg> by Janno Martens<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Janno&surname=Martens> A Problem Consciousness for the Information Age: Automated Hospitals as Rational Infrastructures in 1970s West Germany<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11618561/2ikHAPNOQaA> by Laura Niebling<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Laura&surname=Niebling> A Digital Twin of the Air: Singapore’s Hybrid AI Wind Map and the Politics of Urban Space<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11579758/2hDy3hazXc4> by Hydar Saharudin<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Hydar&surname=Saharudin>, Beatriz Moya<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Beatriz&surname=Moya>, Hallam Stevens<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Hallam&surname=Stevens> Calculating the Grid: A Late 20th Century Story of Innovation, Transition, and Reciprocity in Electrification and Computing<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11475571/2fuLXiIhBG8> by Julie A. Cohn<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Julie%20A.&surname=Cohn>, Daniel K. Molzahn<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Daniel%20K.&surname=Molzahn>, Sairaj Dhople<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Sairaj&surname=Dhople> Algorithmizing Seismic Modernism, Environing Computing History in Soviet Uzbekistan<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11668686/2jis8kBgLZK> by Ksenia Tatarchenko<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Ksenia&surname=Tatarchenko> DEPARTMENT: PEOPLE OF COMPUTING Computing and the Built Environment: An Interview With Prof. Philip Steadman<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711164/2kbn9PqcCAg> by Theodora Vardouli<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Theodora&surname=Vardouli> DEPARTMENT: REVIEWS Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972–2022—S. Kotsopoulos, Ed. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Verlag, 2025.)<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711139/2kbn8rhNros> by Bailey Fernandez<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Bailey&surname=Fernandez> DEPARTMENT: THINK PIECE What Arrows in Architecture Teach Us<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711135/2kbn5X9BOms> by Laurent Stalder<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Laurent&surname=Stalder> NON-THEME MATERIAL DEPARTMENT: PEOPLE OF COMPUTING V. Rajaraman: The Doyen of Indian IT in Memoriam<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711143/2kbn98BBY8U> by N. Dayasindhu<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=N.&surname=Dayasindhu> Simon Lavington in Memoriam<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711134/2kbn5Ohvchq> by Elisabetta Mori<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Elisabetta&surname=Mori> DEPARTMENT: EVENTS AND SIGHTINGS Source Code Exhibition and Software Heritage’s 10th Anniversary<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711162/2kbn74r9xKM> by Mathilde Fichen<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Mathilde&surname=Fichen>, Titaÿna Kauffmann<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Tita%FFna&surname=Kauffmann> The IEEE Commemorates Manchester Code<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711140/2kbn8zGWYcU> by James Sumner<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=James&surname=Sumner> Decoding Vibecon<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711159/2kbn6695ZPa> by Amelia Acker<https://www.computer.org/csdl/search/default?type=author&givenName=Amelia&surname=Acker> DEPARTMENT: ANECDOTES IBM and 9/11 That Week<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2026/03/11711149/2kbn6NDpGo0> by James W. 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