Dear SIGCIS, Also for the colleagues who have access to the ongoing virtual SHOT conference: Matthew Jones (author of a wonderful history of computing in the mechanical era -- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo24836963.html) and myself are organizing a panel to invite attention to the long history of presenting machines as capable of artificial intelligence -- a history reaching back to the mechanical and electrical era of historical capitalism. The full panel below. Best, Aristotle S (Saturday)18: New Historical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence SHOT Conventional Roundtable Organizers: Aristotle Tympas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Matthew L. Jones (Department of History, Columbia University) Chair: Amy Slaton (Drexel University) Panelists Matthew L. Jones (Department of History, Columbia University)  Aristotle Tympas (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)            John Tinnell (University of Colorado): The Anthropologist of AI: Lucy Suchman on the Limits of Human-Computer Interaction   -- Aristotle Tympas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Professor & Chair, Department of History and Philosophy of Science Faculty, Graduate Program ‘History and Philosophy of Science and Technology’ Director, Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science, Technology, Studies’ Publications (links-extracts): http://scholar.uoa.gr/tympas Mail: P.O. Box 18310, Athens 11610, Greece, Email: tympas@phs.uoa.gr Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86003468724?pwd=RzJxb2RYUmRrc2JIY2VlRkpjekJGZz09