ICHST, Budapest, July 28-August 2, 2009 Today the programme for the International Congress for History of Science and Technology in Budapest was released to its participants The website does not have the full program yet http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/ There are many intereresting sessions and symposia, a number of them directly related to History of Computing. As one may expect on big conferences, these are scheduled largely overlapping The program has standard themes T1-T40 and submitted Symposia S1-S96 each lasting between 1 and 6 two-hour timeslots. Here are the sessions: July 28, 3 slots S 58, Iron curtains and immaterial instruments - The circulation of Software and Computer Science in Cold War Europe July 28-29, 5 slots S 35, History of Numerical Tables - the second meeting on history of exact sciences along the silk road July 29, 2 slots S 72, 60 Years of Cybernetics and Information Theory - Ideas, Artefacts and Instruments August 1, 1 slot T09-10, Computing Sciences and the Internet in the Contemporary Period August 1, 4 slots S45, The Antikythera Mechanism and its place in the history of science, technology and ideas Plus a number of most interesting sessions on on technology in context, on Cold War, on instruments, e.g. July 28, 2 slots S 71, Instrumentalizing Social Practice - Socializing Instrumental Practice Gerard Alberts