Annals Update It was a pleasure to see many of you at the SIGCIS lunch (and elsewhere at SHOT) in Lisbon and tell you briefly about upcoming content and initiatives with IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Given that some SIGCIS members were not in Lisbon, I wanted to fill everyone in on developments at Annals. Our thematic issue on the international history of computing will be coming out later this month (volume 30:4) with excellent contributions from five talented historians—Jim Cortada, surveying the diffusion of computing worldwide; Eden Medina, on the history of IBM Chile; Corinna Schlombs, on European strategies and execution by IBM and Remington/Sperry Rand; Timo Leimbach on the history of German software giant SAP; and Petri Paju on the history of computing in Finland. We also have exciting special issues planned on the history of Asian language processing, the history of computer games, and the history of database management systems. Additionally, there are a number of great article and department contributions in the queue. If you are not a subscriber to IEEE Annals, please consider subscribing [just $38 annually for IEEE Computer Society members and $45 for nonmembers—go to http://www.computer.org/portal/site/annals/index.jsp and follow the links (Subscribe to Annals>Subscribe to Individual Publications…)] I also strongly encourage you to submit your scholarship to Annals. We welcome submissions of article manuscripts (for consideration) on all aspects of the history of computing, software and networking. We also welcome proposals for guest editing a special issue. If I can be of assistance with an article manuscript you are thinking about submitting, please let me know. Also, contact me if you have ideas for a special issue proposal. For submission instructions click on "Write for Annals" at http://www.computer.org/portal/site/annals/index.jsp Finally, I want to alert you to a new feature of the IEEE Annals-sponsored “Computing Then” portion of the IEEE Computer Society’s “Computing Now” portal. “Computing Then” just added “Annals Through the Years,” a continuing feature that will electronically publish free select content (articles and department pieces) from each of Annals’ thirty year history—starting with Volume 1 (now available) and rolling out a new volume every several weeks. Brief introductions offer context on the content. See this at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/computingthen Best, Jeff Jeffrey Yost Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute Editor in Chief, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing yostx003@umn.edu <mailto:Yostx003@umn.edu> 612 624 5050