Venues for technical history?
I'm interested in writing on technical computer science history topics (e.g. programming language history) and I'm trying to identify venues for short-form/article length publications. The focus would be on the engineering decisions and impact, rather than the social or business impact, which I understand is "out of scope" for many of the typical historical journals. Does this community have any recommendations? Jeffrey Starr
Jeffrey “Formal Aspects of Computing” is not a history journal but it has had some interesting excursions into history. We’ve tried to get good technical obituaries on key figures (Apt’s on Dijkstra is excellent Vol 14, pp 92-98 as is the one on Manna Vol 31, No 6) We also “commissioned” a series of papers (some of which actually arrived ;-) and are published in Vol 31, No 6 - see: https://link.springer.com/journal/165/volumes-and-issues/31-6 PLs are not FM as such but I’d be happy to look at any papers you might want to publish Cliff Jones On 2022-02-01, at 20:36, Jeffrey Starr <jwstarr81@gmail.com<mailto:jwstarr81@gmail.com>> wrote: ⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. I'm interested in writing on technical computer science history topics (e.g. programming language history) and I'm trying to identify venues for short-form/article length publications. The focus would be on the engineering decisions and impact, rather than the social or business impact, which I understand is "out of scope" for many of the typical historical journals. Does this community have any recommendations? Jeffrey Starr _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<http://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
You could try "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" - and note that this journal was the subject of a list email of earlier today. Brian Berg On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 12:59 PM Cliff Jones <cliff.jones@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
Jeffrey
“Formal Aspects of Computing” is not a history journal but it has had some interesting excursions into history. We’ve tried to get good technical obituaries on key figures (Apt’s on Dijkstra is excellent Vol 14, pp 92-98 as is the one on Manna Vol 31, No 6)
We also “commissioned” a series of papers (some of which actually arrived ;-) and are published in Vol 31, No 6 - see: https://link.springer.com/journal/165/volumes-and-issues/31-6
PLs are not FM as such but I’d be happy to look at any papers you might want to publish
Cliff Jones
On 2022-02-01, at 20:36, Jeffrey Starr <jwstarr81@gmail.com> wrote:
⚠ External sender. Take care when opening links or attachments. Do not provide your login details. I'm interested in writing on technical computer science history topics (e.g. programming language history) and I'm trying to identify venues for short-form/article length publications. The focus would be on the engineering decisions and impact, rather than the social or business impact, which I understand is "out of scope" for many of the typical historical journals.
Does this community have any recommendations?
Jeffrey Starr
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In addition to the venues already mentioned, I would also add the events and associated special journal issues organized by the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HAPOC): http://hapoc.org A technical computer science history would certainly be in scope there. The commission organizes regular conferences on history of computing and symposia on history of programming and there is a typically special journal issue for full papers after the events. The next one is a Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming, which happens to have a deadline for submissions of extended abstracts on 18 March: https://www.shift-society.org/hapop5/ Thanks, Tomas Petricek From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Jeffrey Starr Sent: 01 February 2022 20:37 To: members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Venues for technical history? I'm interested in writing on technical computer science history topics (e.g. programming language history) and I'm trying to identify venues for short-form/article length publications. The focus would be on the engineering decisions and impact, rather than the social or business impact, which I understand is "out of scope" for many of the typical historical journals. Does this community have any recommendations? Jeffrey Starr
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