From edenm at indiana.edu Mon Jun 9 10:31:53 2008 From: edenm at indiana.edu (Medina, Eden) Date: Mon Jun 9 13:32:44 2008 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] FW: Call for papers Message-ID: <1637854CF482594C98D4ADA40F0FCC7A0B4DFB7249@iu-mssg-mbx01.ads.iu.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Call for papers.doc Type: application/msword Size: 24576 bytes Desc: Call for papers.doc Url : http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20080609/b0d8481a/Callforpapers-0001.doc From sandramols at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jun 19 01:26:22 2008 From: sandramols at yahoo.co.uk (Sandra Mols) Date: Thu Jun 19 04:27:20 2008 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fw=3A_50_a=F1os_del_c=F3mputo_en?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_M=E9xico=2E?= Message-ID: <168810.7809.qm@web25304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Dear all, With apologies for crossposting With best wishes, Sandra Mols ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "ceromaya@servidor.unam.mx" To: ceromayalist@servidor.unam.mx Sent: Thursday, 19 June, 2008 2:00:40 AM Subject: 50 a?os del c?mputo en M?xico. En 2008 se llevar?n a cabo distintas actividades para conmemorar los 50 a?os del Computo en M?xico, organizadas por la Direcci?n General de Computo Acad?mico de la UNAM. Para obtener mayor informaci?n es posible consultar la siguiente direcci?n: http://computo50.unam.mx/index.html . ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunic?ndonos __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20080619/9c78fefb/attachment.html From thaigh at computer.org Wed Jun 25 16:06:00 2008 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Wed Jun 25 19:06:55 2008 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] FW: shot meeting: registration deadline june 30th Message-ID: <00d101c8d718$097f6530$1c7e2f90$@org> Hello everyone, SHOT registration time is rolling around -- rather earlier than usual this year. Must be the Germanic efficiency of the organizers. Registration is online for the first time this year. http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/registration.htm Advance registration, prior to June 30, is 130 Euros. Still painful when converted to dollars but is only half the rate 4S is demanding this year. When I tried to register everything worked fine up to the payment stage, and I received a registration ID. Then it gave a Java language error when attempting to process my credit card. The SIG lunches are working a little differently from usual. They will not be run by the conference hotel, but will show up on the program as a preference. We'll be going to a nearby restaurant, which the local arrangements people will reserve for us. Payment will be made at the time of the lunch, not with the registration fees. Time assignments have not been made for the lunches. There will be only two meeting times for SIGs -- both at lunch. The time assignments will be made by the organizers at some future date, but it looks like we will need to register without knowing what they are. I have asked the organizers to avoid scheduling us at the same time as the Mercurians (the communications SIG) because of the considerable overlap of members. As a second priority I asked not to be scheduled against the Prometheans and Atsushi Akera's engineering effort. What I suggest doing is registering for whichever SIGs take your fancy. If because of a clash you can't attend our lunch after all then just email and let us know. We'll also have a less formal dinner one evening, so all is not lost if you miss the lunch. With the SOFT-EU project meeting being held just before SHOT I'm hoping for a good turnout of historians of computing. We should be launching a number of exciting initiatives at this year's event. Best wishes, Tom Haigh -----Original Message----- From: shot@em.uni-frankfurt.de [mailto:shot@em.uni-frankfurt.de] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:23 AM To: shot@em.uni-frankfurt.de Subject: shot meeting: registration deadline june 30th Dear Shot participants, I just want to remind you that the early registration deadline for the Shot-meeting is June 30th. http://www.shotlisbon2008.com/registration.htm If you are a organizer of a session, please send this information to your panelist! Best regards Martina He?ler From neil.barton at uclmail.net Mon Jun 30 03:26:59 2008 From: neil.barton at uclmail.net (Roger Neil Barton) Date: Mon Jun 30 06:27:50 2008 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] David Caminer (LEO) dies References: <168810.7809.qm@web25304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <007e01c8da9b$d86bab20$0301a8c0@GreyBox> I thought you should be aware that David Caminer, one of the people behind LEO, died just over a week ago age 93. Martin C-K's excellent obituary is at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-caminer-system-designer-behind-leo-the-worlds-first-business-computer-854283.html?service=Print Alan Cane's obit a couple of days later is at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3ade40c-44ab-11dd-b151-0000779fd2ac.html And the NYT yesterday is at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1214821428-4UmJsQwpWB4qqPO/I%20rhMg&pagewanted=print As someone who was a systems analyst working on LEO III mainframe computers in the early 1970s my overriding memory is of hours and hours spent reading out and checking hundreds of pages of numbers with the programmers. The LEO of course predated compilers. kind regards neil Dr Roger Neil Barton Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research http://www.uclmail.net/~neil.barton/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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