Hello everyone, It was great to see the CFP for the very first SIGCIS workshop go out last week. We already have a lot of interest, and the team is working hard to make sure that it is memorable for the right reasons. Although the theme is "Mike Mahoney and the Histories of Computing(s)" this encompasses pretty much any history of computing topic - so don't feel put off if your work does not directly relate to Mahoney. This is the first SIGCIS workshop, but we hope it will become an annual event and eventually fill the need for a regular international academic meeting in the history of computing to supplement the various national and special topic workshops that come and go. As mentioned earlier, the deadline for SHOT and SIGCIS graduate student travel funding applications is approaching. (Reminder: details are at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/55. Apply to SHOT via http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/travelgrants.html but send an email to secretary@sigcis.org asking for consideration for our supplemental funds). To help graduate students interested in the workshop we are offering expedited review of proposals if they are received by the end of TOMORROW, Thursday May 28. You will hear back in time to meet the deadline for funding applications. We're particularly interested in submissions of work in progress and dissertations in progress. The dissertations in progress session is an idea copied from the Business History Conference, where I personally found it very useful. You would pre circulate an actual or draft dissertation proposal and then make a short presentation with lots of time for discussion back and forth on framing, sources, organization, possible issues, etc. This might be particularly valuable in history of computing since you probably have between one and zero experts in the field on the faculty in your graduate program. So benefiting from the early input of a group of specialists could greatly strengthen the dissertation and draw your attention to ideas, resources and previous work you might otherwise miss. The works in progress session would also be very suitable for graduate students, as you can get helpful and immediate feedback on a chapter or draft article. We can only run these sessions if we get enough submissions to fill them, and I'm keen to see the workshop take advantage of its more intimate and friendly scale so do things that would be impossible in the larger context of the main conference. So please do consider contributing to them. Tom Haigh www.tomandmaria.com/tom