Call for papers: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due July 18, 2024: Date of online conference Full details: https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/ ________________________ Mar Hicks Associate Professor School of Data Science University of Virginia marhicks@virginia.edu marhicks.com<https://marhicks.com/> Research Affiliate, Centre for Democracy and Technology<https://www.mctd.ac.uk/>, University of Cambridge Member, Scholars' Council, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry<https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/>, UCLA Associate Editor, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an> (feel free to ask me about submitting an article if you work on a topic related to computing history) Books: Programmed Inequality<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality>: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017) Your Computer Is On Fire<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-computer-fire> (MIT Press, 2021)