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 or IEEE Xplore. 

Table of Contents.

EDITORIAL 
From the Editor’s Desk
GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION 
Editorial: Computing and the Built Environment
THEME ARTICLES: COMPUTING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 
Simulated Investments: From the Related Problems of Planning Tall Buildings to the Definition of Design Processes

A Digital Twin of the Air: Singapore’s Hybrid AI Wind Map and the Politics of Urban Space

Algorithmizing Seismic Modernism, Environing Computing History in Soviet Uzbekistan
DEPARTMENT: PEOPLE OF COMPUTING 
Computing and the Built Environment: An Interview With Prof. Philip Steadman
DEPARTMENT: REVIEWS 
Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972–2022—S. Kotsopoulos, Ed. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Verlag, 2025.)
DEPARTMENT: THINK PIECE 
What Arrows in Architecture Teach Us
NON-THEME MATERIAL 

DEPARTMENT: PEOPLE OF COMPUTING 
V. Rajaraman: The Doyen of Indian IT in Memoriam
Simon Lavington in Memoriam
DEPARTMENT: EVENTS AND SIGHTINGS 
Source Code Exhibition and Software Heritage’s 10th Anniversary
The IEEE Commemorates Manchester Code
Decoding Vibecon

DEPARTMENT: ANECDOTES 
IBM and 9/11 That Week

Best,

Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw) 

I often dictate messages due to motor disability; please forgive any oddities resulting.
 
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science and Head of Year 3 / Uwch Darlithydd, Cyfrifiadureg a Phennaeth Blwyddyn 3
Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 
Editor-in-Chief / Prif Olygydd, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

 
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