From horow021 at umn.edu Mon Jun 1 10:19:24 2009 From: horow021 at umn.edu (Stephanie H Crowe) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:19:24 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Von Neumann EDVAC report In-Reply-To: References: <900492153-1243619732-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-934645079-@bxe1060.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <4A23E36C.4040607@umn.edu> The Charles Babbage Institute has a photocopied version in the I. Bernard Cohen Papers - looks like it was made in 1971. -Stephanie Crowe rws wrote: > Worldcat lists another at Princeton. > > On May 29 2009, evan at snarc.net wrote: > > >>>>> One of the great unanswered questions is how many copies were made in >>>>> 1945 >>>>> >> How many do we already know of? >> >> 1. Smithsonian >> 2. L. of C. >> 3. NARA (Aberdeen records in Georgia) >> 4. presumably NARA / ENIAC records in Maryland >> 5. Mauchly archive @ Penn? I've been there a few times recently but don't >> recall if it includes the EDVAC report, as I was there for other >> documents >> _______________________________________________ >> This email is relayed from members at 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 >> >> > > -- Stephanie H. Crowe, Assistant Archivist Charles Babbage Institute 211 Elmer L. Andersen Library 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-625-9053 Fax: 612-625-8054 http://www.cbi.umn.edu CBI blog - http://blog.lib.umn.edu/horow021/cbi From thaigh at computer.org Tue Jun 2 16:13:10 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:13:10 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] New awards from ASIS&T Message-ID: <000301c9e3be$9ebb0d80$dc312880$@org> Hello everyone, The announcement below should be of interest, particularly the announcement of a prize for $500 for the "best paper... relevant to the history of information science and technology." This is from the ASIS&T (www.asist.org) SIG on the History and Foundations of Information Science. Congratulations particularly to Bob Williams, who has been working for many years on getting the ASIS&T History Fund up and running. The call is ambiguous, but it appears that they are looking for unpublished papers. The APA style manual is specified, which is unusual for history. I was chair of the ASIS&T group last year, and have always thought that we should do more to bring its members together with those of SIGCIS. Unfortunately this term coincided with the birth of my son, meaning I got less done toward this end than hoped for. I did revive its website, which can be found at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/index.htm. Another thing I did was to organize the following session for the 2009 annual meeting in Vancouver, showcasing some history and STS scholars who have found employment in information schools. New Directions in Information History * Thomas Haigh (organizer). Challenges and Opportunities in Information History * Greg Downey. Information history meets communication history. * Geoffrey Bowker. 'Did that really happen?' The search for the useful fact from the Enlightenment to the present * William Aspray, "The Use of History in Studying Information-Seeking Behavior in Everyday American Life" Tom -----Original Message----- From: sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sighfis-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hill Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:01 PM To: asis-l at asis.org; sighfis-l at asis.org Subject: [Sighfis-l] Two new History Awards - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ASIST HISTORY FUND 2009 RESEARCH GRANT AND RESEARCH PAPER AWARD The ASIST History Fund Advisory Board announces the following two awards for 2009: The ASIST History Fund Research Grant Award: This award will be for a maximum of $1,000 and will be awarded for the best research support proposal submitted by Sept. 1, 2009. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology may be proposed. The proposal should state: central topic or question to be researched, qualifications of the researcher (a brief vita should be included), and how the funds will be expended. All funds must be expended by Aug. 31, 2010. Submit proposals to: http://www.softconf.com/asist2/History by Sept. 1, 2009. The ASIST History Fund Research Paper Award: This award will be for a maximum of $500 and awarded for the best paper submitted by Sept. 1, 2009. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology will be considered. The paper should not exceed 30 pages double-spaced, including notes/references, using the APA style manual. The ASIST History Fund Advisory Board will review all submissions and decide if an award is to be made by Oct. 30, 2009. If an award is made the winner will be expected to present the paper at the 2010 ASIST Annual Meeting. Submit papers to: http://www.softconf.com/asist2/History by the due date of Sept. 1, 2009. ************** The ASIST History Fund was established by the ASIST Board of Directors in June, 2000 for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research and publication in the history of information science and technology. The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from ASIST members. The Fund Advisory Board encourages further donations from anyone interested in supporting historical study of information science and technology. Members of the ASIST History Fund Advisory Board for 2009 are: Robert V. Williams, Chair Michael Buckland, Vice Chair Trudi B. Hahn Ben-Ami Lipetz Samantha Hastings _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 _______________________________________________ Sighfis-l mailing list Sighfis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sighfis-l From jwcorta at us.ibm.com Sun Jun 7 12:30:51 2009 From: jwcorta at us.ibm.com (James Cortada) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:30:51 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography In-Reply-To: <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of books and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty assembling a good bibliographic list for my own work. The British story seems to have made it into many bibliographies, but publications from the Continent are more difficult to find on lists. Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good online bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the history of ICT? I would especially like to know of those that carry books from multiple European countries. Cheers! Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta at us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090607/ffa2d226/attachment.htm From G.Alberts at uva.nl Sun Jun 7 13:23:02 2009 From: G.Alberts at uva.nl (Alberts, G.) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:23:02 +0200 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65EF6@kwek.ic.uva.nl> Dear Jim, here (below) is the reference to the 2 volume bibliography by the Dutch "Studiecentrum" I showed you before. It virtually coincided with the center's library, which has since been lost. Still this institute was very active in collecting literature in all languages and may well have been among the better informed in Europe. Kind regards, Gerard International computer bibliography : a guide to books on the use, application and effect of computers in scientific, commercial, industrial and social environments / [vol. 2.] ed. [by] H. J. van der Aa Place of publ., Publisher, Publication year: Amsterdam, Nederlands Studiecentrum voor Informatica, 1968-1971 ________________________________ Van: members-bounces at sigcis.org namens James Cortada Verzonden: zo 7-6-2009 18:30 Aan: Thomas Haigh CC: members-bounces at sigcis.org; members at sigcis.org Onderwerp: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of books and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty assembling a good bibliographic list for my own work. The British story seems to have made it into many bibliographies, but publications from the Continent are more difficult to find on lists. Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good online bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the history of ICT? I would especially like to know of those that carry books from multiple European countries. Cheers! Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta at us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090607/79bc4975/attachment.htm From G.Alberts at uva.nl Mon Jun 8 10:56:05 2009 From: G.Alberts at uva.nl (Alberts, G.) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:56:05 +0200 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> Dear Jim, I would not know, never saw the synopsis bibliography for sale, but libraries may also hold the abstract journal it was based on (a reference journal with three lives): Literature on automation = ISSN 0377-1067 (1961-1968 published by Dutch PTT) New literature on automation = ISSN 0028-6095 (1968-1983 published by SSAA/NOVI Studiecentrum ) Excerpta informatica : an abstract journal of recent literature on automation = ISSN 0169-5509 (1985-1998 published by Tilburg University Press) Kind regards, Gerard Alberts -------------- Excellent. If I wanted to buy a copy of this who should I go to in Europe to find this? Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada ________________________________ Dear Jim, here (below) is the reference to the 2 volume bibliography by the Dutch "Studiecentrum" I showed you before. It virtually coincided with the center's library, which has since been lost. Still this institute was very active in collecting literature in all languages and may well have been among the better informed in Europe. Kind regards, Gerard International computer bibliography : a guide to books on the use, application and effect of computers in scientific, commercial, industrial and social environments Place of publ., Publisher, Publication year: Amsterdam, Nederlands Studiecentrum voor Informatica, 1968-1971 ________________________________ From: members-bounces at sigcis.org on behalf of James Cortada Sent: Sun 7-6-2009 18:30 To: Thomas Haigh Cc: members-bounces at sigcis.org; members at sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of books and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty assembling a good bibliographic list for my own work. The British story seems to have made it into many bibliographies, but publications from the Continent are more difficult to find on lists. Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good online bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the history of ICT? I would especially like to know of those that carry books from multiple European countries. Cheers! Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta at us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090608/07d66414/attachment.htm From petpaju at utu.fi Mon Jun 8 14:48:28 2009 From: petpaju at utu.fi (Petri Paju) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:48:28 +0300 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography In-Reply-To: <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> Message-ID: Jim, my answer to your original question would be that no-one has done that, covered the whole of Europe (in any of its possible, different compilation of countries). Sorry. I would say it's a ridiculously difficult task anyway but could be done as a well-coordinated international effort. The present Softeu-project won't have time to do it but it could help show the right way. (For Softeu, see http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/inventing-europe/projects/list-of-projects.html#c14520) For the Nordic or Scandinavian countries the book History of Nordic Computing (2005, and there's a second volume to be published later this year) is a good entry point to the different literatures. It's a collection of academic articles and source articles by the actors themselves. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/t74p87474518/ or Google books. In some cases 'where to buy them' is another complex question to answer. Bookfinder.com seems to find many of them quite nice. But: Gerard's "International computer bibliography" isn't there and many others (particularly of less central countries, so to speak, like pretty much all of the Nordic ones) are not there. We need to find and search national bookstores and hope they have them and that they deliver abroad -- I have had difficulties ordering sort of rare history books from German web-stores. In this sense, (too), Europe is a mess, or doesn't really exist as one category. Best, Petri > Dear Jim, > > I would not know, never saw the synopsis bibliography for sale, but > libraries may also hold the abstract journal it was based on (a > reference journal with three lives): > > Literature on automation < = ISSN 0377-1067 (1961-1968 published by > Dutch PTT) > > New literature on automation < = ISSN 0028-6095 (1968-1983 published > by SSAA/NOVI Studiecentrum ) > > Excerpta informatica : an abstract journal of recent literature on > automation < = ISSN 0169-5509 (1985-1998 published by Tilburg > University Press) > > Kind regards, > > Gerard Alberts > > > > -------------- > > Excellent. If I wanted to buy a copy of this who should I go to in > Europe to find this? > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > > ________________________________ > > > Dear Jim, > here (below) is the reference to the 2 volume bibliography by the > Dutch "Studiecentrum" I showed you before. It virtually coincided with > the center's library, which has since been lost. Still this institute > was very active in collecting literature in all languages and may well > have been among the better informed in Europe. > Kind regards, > Gerard > > > International computer bibliography : a guide to books on the use, > application and effect of computers in scientific, commercial, > industrial and social environments > Place of publ., Publisher, Publication year: Amsterdam, Nederlands > Studiecentrum voor Informatica, 1968-1971 > > > > ________________________________ > > From: members-bounces at sigcis.org on behalf of James Cortada > Sent: Sun 7-6-2009 18:30 > To: Thomas Haigh > Cc: members-bounces at sigcis.org; members at sigcis.org > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography > > > > Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of > books and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty > assembling a good bibliographic list for my own work. The British > story seems to have made it into many bibliographies, but publications > from the Continent are more difficult to find on lists. > > Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good > online bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the > history of ICT? I would especially like to know of those that carry > books from multiple European countries. > > Cheers! > > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > IBM Institute for Business Value > 2917 Irvington Way > Madison, WI 53713 USA > jwcorta at us.ibm.com > 608-270-4462 > > _______________________________________________ > This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion > list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members From jwcorta at us.ibm.com Mon Jun 8 18:55:52 2009 From: jwcorta at us.ibm.com (James Cortada) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:55:52 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography In-Reply-To: References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> Message-ID: Petri, I agree with your comments and you and I have had the same experience in finding materials. Ultimately, I am more interested in collecting the materials than simply having a nice bibliography. As a community we all share the same problem so it might make sense at some point for the entire sigcis membership to launch a coordinated assault on the problem, select one or more university libraries in Europe--not the US--and build the collection, methodically and completely. By the way, we have not done that in the US, although CBI is moving aggressively to start that process. We really need a half dozen such collections around the world. Perhaps when the several research projects underway in Europe are completed we can go to the EU and propose a serious project. I like collections of 30,000-100,000 publications on a subject; justifies the price of an airplane ticket to see them. :--)) Cheers, Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta at us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 From: Petri Paju To: "Alberts, G." Cc: James Cortada/Madison/IBM at IBMUS, members at sigcis.org Date: 06/08/09 01:48 PM Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography Jim, my answer to your original question would be that no-one has done that, covered the whole of Europe (in any of its possible, different compilation of countries). Sorry. I would say it's a ridiculously difficult task anyway but could be done as a well-coordinated international effort. The present Softeu-project won't have time to do it but it could help show the right way. (For Softeu, see http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/inventing-europe/projects/list-of-projects.html#c14520 ) For the Nordic or Scandinavian countries the book History of Nordic Computing (2005, and there's a second volume to be published later this year) is a good entry point to the different literatures. It's a collection of academic articles and source articles by the actors themselves. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/t74p87474518/ or Google books. In some cases 'where to buy them' is another complex question to answer. Bookfinder.com seems to find many of them quite nice. But: Gerard's "International computer bibliography" isn't there and many others (particularly of less central countries, so to speak, like pretty much all of the Nordic ones) are not there. We need to find and search national bookstores and hope they have them and that they deliver abroad -- I have had difficulties ordering sort of rare history books from German web-stores. In this sense, (too), Europe is a mess, or doesn't really exist as one category. Best, Petri > Dear Jim, > > I would not know, never saw the synopsis bibliography for sale, but > libraries may also hold the abstract journal it was based on (a > reference journal with three lives): > > Literature on automation < = ISSN 0377-1067 (1961-1968 published by > Dutch PTT) > > New literature on automation < = ISSN 0028-6095 (1968-1983 published > by SSAA/NOVI Studiecentrum ) > > Excerpta informatica : an abstract journal of recent literature on > automation < = ISSN 0169-5509 (1985-1998 published by Tilburg > University Press) > > Kind regards, > > Gerard Alberts > > > > -------------- > > Excellent. If I wanted to buy a copy of this who should I go to in > Europe to find this? > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > > ________________________________ > > > Dear Jim, > here (below) is the reference to the 2 volume bibliography by the > Dutch "Studiecentrum" I showed you before. It virtually coincided with > the center's library, which has since been lost. Still this institute > was very active in collecting literature in all languages and may well > have been among the better informed in Europe. > Kind regards, > Gerard > > > International computer bibliography : a guide to books on the use, > application and effect of computers in scientific, commercial, > industrial and social environments > Place of publ., Publisher, Publication year: Amsterdam, Nederlands > Studiecentrum voor Informatica, 1968-1971 > > > > ________________________________ > > From: members-bounces at sigcis.org on behalf of James Cortada > Sent: Sun 7-6-2009 18:30 > To: Thomas Haigh > Cc: members-bounces at sigcis.org; members at sigcis.org > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography > > > > Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of > books and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty > assembling a good bibliographic list for my own work. The British > story seems to have made it into many bibliographies, but publications > from the Continent are more difficult to find on lists. > > Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good > online bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the > history of ICT? I would especially like to know of those that carry > books from multiple European countries. > > Cheers! > > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > IBM Institute for Business Value > 2917 Irvington Way > Madison, WI 53713 USA > jwcorta at us.ibm.com > 608-270-4462 > > _______________________________________________ > This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion > list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For further information, please refer to Lena Soler (l_soler at club-internet.fr) Best regards, Sandra Mols ----------------- Peter Galison, Harvard University, is giving a conference in Paris entitled "Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Sight" this Saturday 13th of June 2009, 10h-12h. Ths talk will take place at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), grande salle, 13 rue du four, Paris. Abstract available at: http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/digitalAssets/51621_Galison-13mai09-Invitation-Paris.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090609/11f1d0cb/attachment-0001.htm From u.hashagen at deutsches-museum.de Tue Jun 9 05:35:36 2009 From: u.hashagen at deutsches-museum.de (Ulf Hashagen) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:35:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography In-Reply-To: <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> <153B413D3A9E054784CC218A3E719A51A65F12@kwek.ic.uva.nl> Message-ID: <63484.62.158.101.233.1244540136.squirrel@mail.deutsches-museum.de> Dear Jim, dear colleagues you might be interested in a German bibliography on computing funded by the German Science Foundation. From 1954 to 1966 the DFG published 73 reports on the "new" literature on computing (from all over the world). The idea behind this project was, that the DFG wanted to "make up ground" in the computing field and tried to be informed about the world wide progress in this field. (I am writing about this project in my new book on schientific computing in Germany.) The number of entrys in these report changed over the years, but it seems to me that the mean number of entries in a report is 200 to 400. Unfortunately these reports are relatively rare (even in German libraries) and I have never seen a copy on sale. Kind regards Ulf Hashagen > Dear Jim, > > I would not know, never saw the synopsis bibliography for sale, but > libraries may also hold the abstract journal it was based on (a reference > journal with three lives): > > Literature on automation > = > ISSN 0377-1067 (1961-1968 published by Dutch PTT) > > New literature on automation > = > ISSN 0028-6095 (1968-1983 published by SSAA/NOVI Studiecentrum ) > > Excerpta informatica : an abstract journal of recent literature on > automation > = > ISSN 0169-5509 (1985-1998 published by Tilburg University Press) > > Kind regards, > > Gerard Alberts > > > > -------------- > > Excellent. If I wanted to buy a copy of this who should I go to in Europe > to find this? > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > > ________________________________ > > > Dear Jim, > here (below) is the reference to the 2 volume bibliography by the Dutch > "Studiecentrum" I showed you before. It virtually coincided with the > center's library, which has since been lost. Still this institute was very > active in collecting literature in all languages and may well have been > among the better informed in Europe. > Kind regards, > Gerard > > > International computer bibliography : a guide to books on the use, > application and effect of computers in scientific, commercial, industrial > and social environments > Place of publ., Publisher, Publication year: Amsterdam, Nederlands > Studiecentrum voor Informatica, 1968-1971 > > > > ________________________________ > > From: members-bounces at sigcis.org on behalf of James Cortada > Sent: Sun 7-6-2009 18:30 > To: Thomas Haigh > Cc: members-bounces at sigcis.org; members at sigcis.org > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] European ICT Bibliography > > > > Has anyone published, or put together, a substantial bibliography of books > and articles concerning ICT in Europe? I am having difficulty assembling a > good bibliographic list for my own work. The British story seems to have > made it into many bibliographies, but publications from the Continent are > more difficult to find on lists. > > Second, a question for our European colleagues: What are some good online > bookdealers to go to for old and new books related to the history of ICT? > I would especially like to know of those that carry books from multiple > European countries. > > Cheers! > > > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada > IBM Institute for Business Value > 2917 Irvington Way > Madison, WI 53713 USA > jwcorta at us.ibm.com > 608-270-4462 > > _______________________________________________ > This email is relayed from members at 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 From CeruzziP at si.edu Tue Jun 16 10:35:24 2009 From: CeruzziP at si.edu (Ceruzzi, Paul) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:35:24 -0400 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] IFIP World Computer Congress, Call for Papers Message-ID: <39E881CB59D4454295FDDDA5605EE7FC01762670@SI-ECL01.US.SINET.SI.EDU> I see that the Call for Papers is just under the 100 KB limit for permissible attachments to this List, so I am attaching it here. If you have trouble opening the attachment, send me an e-mail. Paul E. Ceruzzi National Air & Space Museum MRC 311; PO Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 202-633-2414 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > > End of Members Digest, Vol 16, Issue 6 > ************************************** > From evan at snarc.net Tue Jun 16 15:13:18 2009 From: evan at snarc.net (Evan Koblentz) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:13:18 -0400 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 16, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <2e80e40d0906160821t2bd64ecev696e50becec26958@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e80e40d0906160821t2bd64ecev696e50becec26958@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A37EECE.2090203@snarc.net> http://www.wcc2010.org Wish I could afford to go! > This attachment didn't work - please could you resend or just send the URL? > thanks > >> I see that the Call for Papers is just under the 100 KB limit for >> permissible attachments to this List, so I am attaching it here. If you >> have trouble opening the attachment, send me an e-mail. >> From thaigh at computer.org Tue Jun 16 15:14:20 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:14:20 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Attachments are not so great for the list In-Reply-To: <2e80e40d0906160821t2bd64ecev696e50becec26958@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e80e40d0906160821t2bd64ecev696e50becec26958@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <008601c9eeb6$a80cf5d0$f826e170$@org> In general attachments are not a good idea because 1) They are not preserved in the list archives 2) They are slower to access and less convenient for recipients 3) They are not received by subscribers who selected digest mode 4) They may cause problems for people reading email on mobile devices It's better to cut and paste the most relevant information and include a link to an online location where the full version can be found. Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Sue Thomas Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:22 AM To: members at sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 16, Issue 6 This attachment didn't work - please could you resend or just send the URL? thanks 2009/6/16 : > Send Members mailing list submissions to > ? ? ? ?members at sigcis.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > ? ? ? ?http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ? ? ? ?members-request at sigcis.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ? ? ? ?members-owner at sigcis.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > ? 1. 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The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members From evan at snarc.net Wed Jun 17 00:24:53 2009 From: evan at snarc.net (Evan Koblentz) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:24:53 -0400 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Update -- Evans Signal Lab and computer development Message-ID: <4A387015.4020609@snarc.net> Here's something I think my fellow SIGCIS members will find interesting. At the D.C. conference in 2007 I talked about the InfoAge Science Center, which was a Marconi station before W.W. I, a Navy comms station during W.W. I, an Army Signal Corp R&D lab during and after W.W. II, and shut down in the late 1990s. Recently we at InfoAge made progress in understanding what happened here applicable to computer development. The site is already noteworthy for its Marconi-era achievements and its many radar and communications achievements, but until very recently its role in computer development was severely understated. Last night I made a simple poster outlining this work. It's intended for lay audiences, but it might also open some eyes here in SIGCIS. Feedback encouraged. Of course I'd be happy to provide more detail about each bullet point. http://snarc.net/posters/10_summary-poster.pdf - Evan From evan at snarc.net Thu Jun 18 01:49:08 2009 From: evan at snarc.net (Evan Koblentz) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:49:08 -0400 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Good books/articles on history of networking? Message-ID: <4A39D554.4030605@snarc.net> I'm looking for recommendations of good books/articles on the history of computer networking from before the ARPAnet era. From tmisa at umn.edu Fri Jun 19 16:35:32 2009 From: tmisa at umn.edu (tmisa at umn.edu) Date: 19 Jun 2009 15:35:32 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] ACM History Committee fellowships awarded Message-ID: Dear SIGCIS colleagues, The Association for Computer Machinery's History Committee is delighted to announce the two winners of its inaugural short-term fellowship in ACM history: Irina Nikiforova, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology and Society, for her dissertation project entitled "ACM, Turing Prize Scientists, and their Web of Affiliations." Nikiforova will examine archival materials held at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the Charles Babbage Institute as well as online ACM materials concerning the Turing Award. Bernard Geoghegan, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University and Bauhaus University--Weimar, for a specific project on "Staging the ACM Chess Championships" which will draw on archival materials presently in private hands. Geoghegan plans a journal article from this research as well as a museum exhibit. Each fellow will receive $2500 to support their project, which can be used for travel or other research expenses. An announcement of this year's (past) fellowship can be found at . The ACM History Committee hopes to sponsor another round of fellowship support next year as well. From thaigh at computer.org Sat Jun 20 13:09:55 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:09:55 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Reminder: SIGCIS Workshop Proposal Deadline is June 22 Message-ID: <00a601c9f1c9$efb1d7a0$cf1586e0$@org> Hello everyone, We're all looking forward to the very first SIGCIS workshop, held on Sunday 18 at the conclusion of the SHOT conference. (As you start to make your travel arrangements, please do your best to stay for Sunday afternoon so you get the whole thing. We'll also have a little dinner Sunday evening for those who can stick around). It's still not too late to submit an abstract for a paper or session, a work in progress, or a dissertation proposal. But Monday is the day we shut down the submission system and get to work reviewing. So hurry, hurry, hurry to http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop09. Tom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090620/b58d1697/attachment.htm From davidferro at gmail.com Tue Jun 30 16:51:32 2009 From: davidferro at gmail.com (David Ferro) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:51:32 -0600 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Call For Papers - Interdisciplinary Essays on Science Fiction and Computers Message-ID: David Ferro and Eric Swedin (both at Weber State University and members of sigcis) are editing a volume for McFarland & Company with a working title of "Canticle for the Machine: Interdisciplinary Essays on Science Fiction and Computers." In this volume we are bringing together voices from numerous disciplines, such as literature studies, history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, science and technology studies, and the other humanities and social science disciplines. In addition, we are bringing together voices from disciplines such as computer science, aeronautics, and physics, as well as pioneers in the computer industry. We are also looking to add the voices of some science fiction authors. The point of assembling these voices is to broadly explore the importance of science fiction as a body of literature that has, through various means, facilitated invention and discovery in computing. We also recognize that science fiction is not just stories and novels, but includes movies, television series, and graphic novels. Science fiction acts as a source of inspiration for invention and participation. It supplies metaphors and analogies. It facilitates communication within and outside a community of practitioners. It helps create world views and shape critical and reflective thinking. It plays a role in defining social relations and helps to determine who is inside and outside of the community of the creators of digital culture. It assists in imagining the implications of computing on society and ourselves, or, vice versa, the needs of a society that promotes computer development. Our intention is to gather those who are informed by experience and/or academic study, but who will communicate clearly across disciplinary boundaries. We are approaching this email list as some here have expressed an interest in science fiction and society. Please contact us via the contact information listed below. Currently we are looking for 6,000 word entries; however, we welcome email inquiries about possible essays of shorter length. The schedule for contributing to this work is as follows: ASAP: A response that you are interested. August 31, 2009: A 250 word abstract of the intended work November 30, 2009: Author First. February 28, 2010: Author Second. We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, David L. Ferro, PhD (Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech) Associate Professor of Computer Science at Weber State University dferro at weber.edu Eric G. Swedin, PhD (History of Science, Case Western Reserve) Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technologies at Weber State University eswedin at weber.edu or eswedin at gmail.com Physical address: Weber State University 2401 University Circle Weber State University Ogden, Utah 84408 -- David Ferro, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Chair of Faculty Senate, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090630/f566c180/attachment.htm