Eden Medina makes the New York Times - congratulations!
SIGCISters - Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday! Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government. Congratulations, Eden! - Paul ___________________________ Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) Mailing address (2012-13): 82 rue Mouffetard 75005 Paris, France (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu
Thanks Paul for the shout out and congratulations! Best wishes, Eden -- Eden Medina Co-Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing Adjunct Associate Professor of History School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington edenm@indiana.edu<mailto:edenm@indiana.edu> www.edenmedina.com<http://www.edenmedina.com> Learn more about "Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile" @ www.cyberneticrevolutionaries.com<http://www.cyberneticrevolutionaries.com> Sent from my iPad On Nov 30, 2012, at 8:11 AM, "Paul N. Edwards" <pne@umich.edu<mailto:pne@umich.edu>> wrote: SIGCISters - Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries>, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday! Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/opinion/the-no-10-dashboard-and-cybernetics.html?_r=0> — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government. Congratulations, Eden! - Paul ___________________________ Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po<http://www.sciencespo.fr/>, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information<http://www.si.umich.edu/> and History<http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/>, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/vastmachine/index.html> (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate<http://five.sentenc.es/> (and better than nothing) Mailing address (2012-13): 82 rue Mouffetard 75005 Paris, France (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu<http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/> _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
Good going, Eden! I was also impressed by the journalist's accurate description of the technology and his understanding that the key "cybernetic" element has been lost in the newer systems, rather than simply assuming that the iPad version must be more sophisticated than something from the 1970s. Janet On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
SIGCISters -
Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday!
Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government.
Congratulations, Eden!
- Paul ___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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Dr. Janet Abbate Associate Professor Science & Technology in Society Virginia Tech
How terrific! I also like that the (1960s era, British) term "white heat" was used to describe "21st c. Technology." One quibble: shouldn't they have referred to you as Dr. or Prof. Medina, rather than Ms.? Or is that how the NYT always does things? Congrats again! Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mariehicks.net | mhicks1@iit.edu | @histoftech On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:58, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:
Good going, Eden! I was also impressed by the journalist's accurate description of the technology and his understanding that the key "cybernetic" element has been lost in the newer systems, rather than simply assuming that the iPad version must be more sophisticated than something from the 1970s.
Janet
On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
SIGCISters -
Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday!
Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government.
Congratulations, Eden!
- Paul ___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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NY Times house style has everyone as Mr. or Ms. Including Mr. Obama. Although IIRC it was always Dr. Albright -- she hadn't spent six years in Evil Medical School to be called Ms., and insisted on it. Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of M. Hicks Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:43 AM To: Janet Abbate Cc: sigcis Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Eden Medina makes the New York Times - congratulations! How terrific! I also like that the (1960s era, British) term "white heat" was used to describe "21st c. Technology." One quibble: shouldn't they have referred to you as Dr. or Prof. Medina, rather than Ms.? Or is that how the NYT always does things? Congrats again! Marie ______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mariehicks.net | mhicks1@iit.edu | @histoftech On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:58, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:
Good going, Eden! I was also impressed by the journalist's accurate description of the technology and his understanding that the key "cybernetic" element has been lost in the newer systems, rather than simply assuming that the iPad version must be more sophisticated than something from the 1970s.
Janet
On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
SIGCISters -
Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday!
Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government.
Congratulations, Eden!
- Paul ___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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I believe that Times style is to refer to all physicians (and nobody else) as Dr. Sheldon On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Haigh <thaigh@computer.org> wrote:
NY Times house style has everyone as Mr. or Ms. Including Mr. Obama. Although IIRC it was always Dr. Albright -- she hadn't spent six years in Evil Medical School to be called Ms., and insisted on it.
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of M. Hicks Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:43 AM To: Janet Abbate Cc: sigcis Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Eden Medina makes the New York Times - congratulations!
How terrific! I also like that the (1960s era, British) term "white heat" was used to describe "21st c. Technology."
One quibble: shouldn't they have referred to you as Dr. or Prof. Medina, rather than Ms.? Or is that how the NYT always does things?
Congrats again!
Marie
______________________ Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, History of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL USA mariehicks.net | mhicks1@iit.edu | @histoftech
On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:58, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:
Good going, Eden! I was also impressed by the journalist's accurate description of the technology and his understanding that the key "cybernetic" element has been lost in the newer systems, rather than simply assuming that the iPad version must be more sophisticated than something from the 1970s.
Janet
On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
SIGCISters -
Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday!
Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app — the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British government.
Congratulations, Eden!
- Paul ___________________________
Paul N. Edwards Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:43 PM, "M. Hicks" <mhicks1@iit.edu> wrote:
One quibble: shouldn't they have referred to you as Dr. or Prof. Medina, rather than Ms.? Or is that how the NYT always does things?
Tom has it correct about the NY Times style guides: according to them, PhDs aren't "real doctors" (this also happens to be my mother-in-law's policy, which she reminds me of not infrequently...) As for the inappropriate picture: While the inclusion in the promotional film may or may not be intentional, the pervasive presence of such images is, of course, not usual or coincidental. I have always wanted to do a little history of the pin-up photo in the computer industry, with its attendant implications for the gendering of the computing professions: One of my favorite images of the SAGE system is of a test program that technicians ran to test the CRT displays, which produced a crude outline of a pin-up girl. Here it is: http://thecomputerboys.com/?attachment_id=482 And, of course, there is the infamous "Lena" image, which was a Playboy centerfold that became the reference image for academic computer scientists (and others) working on image processing technologies. It remains so to this day, and was just recently featured in an article in Nature Nanotechnology. There is a nice little piece in the IEEE Professional Communication Society newsletter that details the history of the Lena image, although it focuses on the copyright angle, rather the sexual harassment issue. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/pcs_mirror/may_june01.pdf -Nathan -- Nathan Ensmenger Associate Professor of Informatics School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/
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