And another example of reaching out to a wider community: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals*,” AHA Perspectives* May 2025, 18-20. "'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., *The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Thanks for sharing this interesting article. This software tool is a good example of what happens when something works well. Microsoft Word, Google (at least so far), CDs are other examples. Why change when what you have works "good enough" for most people? Second, it was sufficiently promoted (marketed) to push to the side alternatives. For those of us writing articles and books, every publisher requires use of Word and JPEGS. Regards, Jim Cortada On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM Jonathan Coopersmith via Members < members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
And another example of reaching out to a wider community:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
Stay sane,
Jonathan
Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell)
with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals*,” AHA Perspectives* May 2025, 18-20.
"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., *The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
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publisher requires use of Word
No. They accept .docx format, which is a standard. I haven't used Word for at least ten years; LibreOffice is just fine.
and JPEGS.
I think .png is also quite widely accepted. The point surely is that *standard formats* are what matter, not which tool produced them. Regards/Ngā mihi Brian Carpenter On 09-Sep-25 00:06, James Cortada via Members wrote:
Thanks for sharing this interesting article. This software tool is a good example of what happens when something works well. Microsoft Word, Google (at least so far), CDs are other examples. Why change when what you have works "good enough" for most people? Second, it was sufficiently promoted (marketed) to push to the side alternatives. For those of us writing articles and books, every publisher requires use of Word and JPEGS.
Regards, Jim Cortada
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM Jonathan Coopersmith via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>> wrote:
And another example of reaching out to a wider community:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history <https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history>
Stay sane,
Jonathan
Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell)
with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals/,” AHA Perspectives/ May 2025, 18-20.
"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., /The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
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Hi, Jonathan— This is a great standards story that I didn’t know about. How interesting that JPEG is a joint committee of ISO<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>/IEC<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission> JTC 1<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1> (already a joint committee itself) and ITU-T (then CCITT)! Thanks for sharing! JoAnne From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Coopersmith via Members Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2025 9:32 AM To: SIGCIS <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] JPEG history And another example of reaching out to a wider community: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals,” AHA Perspectives May 2025, 18-20. "'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
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