Dear Colleagues, Hope everyone is doing well! Please excuse any duplication as some/many on the SIGCIS list are also on ours at CBI. Here is the Summer 2021 *CBI Bits & Bytes* (a twice a year e-pub) with news of events, our fellows, developments at the CBI Archives, overview on the past year at CBI (my Dir. Desk), and a wonderful article by CBI Senior Research Fellow Bill Aspray on the early history of the history of computing (inspired by an oral history series he is kindly conducting for CBI that significantly advances early IT historical understandings, people, and institutions, and the historiography of computing)! Best, Jeff On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 9:52 AM Charles Babbage Institute <cbi@umn.edu> wrote:

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*Director's Desk* Reflecting on the past academic year at CBI, work settings changed, but dedicated service to local and global stakeholders, events, publications, oral history projects, collection development, editing, and outreach propelled our mission—advancing interdisciplinary computing/software studies and infrastructure—stronger than ever! Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=b6174de43a&e=7e9b315345>

*The Early History of the History of Computing: * *An Oral History Project* The first concerted efforts to study the history of computing came in the late 1970s, more than 40 years ago. Some of the main practitioners of that era have died (e.g., I. Bernard Cohen, Bernard Galler, and Henry Tropp), and many of the other participants from that era are at retirement age or a few years beyond. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=9fc9b1300b&e=7e9b315345>

* From the Archives* There has been a great deal of forward momentum amongst the research community as pandemic restrictions at many institutions begin to lift and it has been a busy spring and early summer for researchers at CBI. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=b951907d81&e=7e9b315345>

*CFP - Automation by Design*

<https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=199dd4112a&e=7e9b315345> *Automation by Design* is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual CBI symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation. We welcome papers in a broad range of fields across the humanities and social sciences. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=5ed671ab45&e=7e9b315345>

*Zachary Loeb Named New Tomash Fellow* We are delighted to announce that Zachary Loeb is the incoming 2021-2022 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow. His dissertation will be a social and technical examination of the “much-maligned” Year 2000 (Y2K) crisis. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=5fffb47e36&e=7e9b315345>

*UMN IDFs Exemplifying and Enriching CBI’s Interdisciplinary Mission * The University of Minnesota-wide Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDFs) Program is a tremendous resource for furthering interdisciplinary engagement in doctoral research at the university. It provides $25,000 doctoral fellowships to ABD students to partner with a research center within the University of Minnesota. Read more. <https://umn.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e&id=9224f633eb&e=7e9b315345>

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