Dear Friends, These are exciting times at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), and we would like to share with you a few highlights from 2019: - The completion of multi-institutional project—a documentary on the history of computing in Minnesota. http://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=6a3081b0585aabc36245e2644759533a7e... Watch Solid State documentary . - CBI and the University Libraries launched the annual Samek Lecture in Information Science and Culture, with an inaugural lecture by leading IT scholar Bill Aspray. - The addition of Colorado’s Bill Aspray, and MIT’s Jennifer Light, as CBI Senior Research Fellows, as well as HSTM’s hiring of Assistant Professor Honghong Tinn, who also serves as an affiliated historian at CBI. - Archivist Amanda Wick and I co-led a highly successful Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) Heritage/History Workshop, educating computer scientists from around the world interested in archiving and oral history. We expect that 2020 will be another exceptional year. On May 8-9, I will be partnering with standout past CBI Tomash Fellow UC-Davis’ Gerardo Con Diaz on CBI’s upcoming symposium “Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT,” at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. http://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=6a3081b0585aabc38557e0d151aaf0712e... Register for the "Just Code" symposium . Accomplishments and events such as these would not be possible without your support. Our donors make what CBI does possible—research, unparalleled assistance to students and scholars globally, public history, CBI symposia, oral history, publishing, editorial leadership, and continually adding to our world leading CBI Archives. The opportunities are incredible, the need is pressing, and the impact, in true entrepreneurial fashion, is exponential! Thank you in advance for your generosity and happy holidays to all! Best wishes, Jeff Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. CBI Director and Research Professor History of Science, Technology, and Medicine P.S. Your gift today will help us create an even brighter tomorrow for IT history/IT studies. http://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=6a3081b0585aabc39ac632d699185deb3e... Support CBI CBI is a partnership of the History of Science, Technology, Medicine Program in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering and the University Libraries. This email was sent by: College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, 105 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. http://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=6a3081b0585aabc36d181e3383c7411c35... unsubscribe MEMBERS@SIGCIS.ORG from this mailing list http://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=6a3081b0585aabc3c4ae3b8f8105c775b4... read our email privacy statement