Hello SIGCIS members,

Here’s your chance to get on the program for the main SHOT meeting, November 3-6 in Cleveland.

We need a volunteer to chair the session below. Email me if you are interested. Ideally we’d give to slot to someone who is not already coming to the meeting to broaden participation, but SHOT allows people to chair who are already speaking in another session.

To get it correctly into the printed booklet I need a name by the end of Monday – I just remembered the need for this when I received a reminder from Jane Carlson. Meeting details here: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html. Early bird SHOT registration finishes Oct 1 and must be made by fax or mail: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/pdf/2011_registration_form.pdf. If you come to SHOT you can also come to our wonderful SIGCIS workshop the next day: http://www.sigcis.org/workshop11.

Tom

Saturday, 5 November

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice and Community in the History of Software

Sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society

Organizer:                                 Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Chair:                                         CHAIR NEEDED

Commentator:                           Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008

Hansen Hsu (Cornell University) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory

Joline Zepcevski (University of Minnesota) [Robinson Prize Candidate]: Complexity, Verification and the Rise of Object Oriented Programming