Anyone at 4S in Hawaii this week and want to get together?
Hello SIGCIS, Las month, with deep regret, I missed my first in person SHOT meeting since 2002. A combination of other travel, family commitments and logistical and financial hurdles caused by the last minute relocation combined to keep me at home. So I did not get a chance to revive the old tradition of an open dinner call for historians of computing. However, thanks to an invite for a preconference workshop I do find myself attending 4S for the first time since Rotterdam in 2008. Looking through the program, it seems that there's even less history on the spectacularly large program than there was fifteen years ago, so an initial skim through its many pages did not turn up a huge number of familiar SIGCIS names. Though there is, as you might expect, a lot of CHAT GPT and AI. But if anyone on the list is attending and would like to join a group meeting for dinner or drinks on one of the days then let me know. I'll not send any more messages to the main list, but one we identify who, if anyone, is interested we can exchange emails among that group to fix a time and place that works. Best wishes, Tom
It will be certainly interesting to shed the historian's light on these A.I.logical discussions*. Sorry to miss that – I am in Washington, DC, this week. Anyone want to get together? Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn * I just returned from a conference session on "Archaeology and AI", weighing AI's potential for great discoveries and spectacular frauds. A.I.logy is a fast emerging field, like the History of Computing 40 years ago. De: "thomas.haigh--- via Members" <members@lists.sigcis.org> À: "members" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Lundi 6 Novembre 2023 06:03:44 Objet: [SIGCIS-Members] Anyone at 4S in Hawaii this week and want to get together? Hello SIGCIS, Las month, with deep regret, I missed my first in person SHOT meeting since 2002. A combination of other travel, family commitments and logistical and financial hurdles caused by the last minute relocation combined to keep me at home. So I did not get a chance to revive the old tradition of an open dinner call for historians of computing. However, thanks to an invite for a preconference workshop I do find myself attending 4S for the first time since Rotterdam in 2008. Looking through the program, it seems that there’s even less history on the spectacularly large program than there was fifteen years ago, so an initial skim through its many pages did not turn up a huge number of familiar SIGCIS names. Though there is, as you might expect, a lot of CHAT GPT and AI. But if anyone on the list is attending and would like to join a group meeting for dinner or drinks on one of the days then let me know. I’ll not send any more messages to the main list, but one we identify who, if anyone, is interested we can exchange emails among that group to fix a time and place that works. Best wishes, Tom _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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