From bbl4 at btinternet.com Mon Mar 2 12:19:46 2009 From: bbl4 at btinternet.com (Bernardo Batiz-Lazo) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:19:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Opportinities at Leicester's School of Management References: <20090302094031.2734.qmail@servidor4.servidores.unam.mx> Message-ID: <480669.75940.qm@web86609.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Could you kindly inform any business or economic historian in the disciplines below as we welcome people with that research profile. We are particularly interested in attracting an accounting historian. The School has a strong "critical management" inclination so that profile would also be attractive. The University is ranked solid as 20th in the UK and the School had a higher research profile than the average return in the last REA. 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See also http://www.ieee.nl/milestone.html for all details and the registration form. It is also my pleasure to announce the newly elected members of the 2009 IEEE Benelux Section Executive Committee : Chair: Georges Gielen, K.U.Leuven Vice Chair: Wim van Etten, retired from U Twente Secretary: Dirk Van Hertem, K.U.Leuven Treasurers: Dirk Rabaey, Alcatel-Lucent & Jan Bergmans, TU Eindhoven We will update you regularly about upcoming events within the Benelux. You can also find this information on our website : www.ieee.be or www.ieee.nl If you have not re-registered yet as IEEE member for 2009, please do so before the end of February 2009 ! Sincerely, Georges Gielen Benelux Section Chair 2009-2010 benelux at ieee.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090312/b3c5730e/attachment.htm From tmisa at umn.edu Thu Mar 12 17:57:27 2009 From: tmisa at umn.edu (tmisa at umn.edu) Date: 12 Mar 2009 16:57:27 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] "pre-announcement" of new ACM short-term history fellowship --> 30 April deadline Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The ACM History Committee has created a new source of support for computer history, aimed naturally enough at research on activities in which ACM played some important role. The announcement will formally be launched when the site is updated, but the basic information is all here (see the announcement text below). The "back story" is this: ACM has devoted substantial resources in recent years to creating historical documentation (about its members, its prize winners, and about its organization -- both its central HQ and its three dozen SIG's). The ACM History Committee (which I recently joined) wants to make sure that these research materials actually get USED. As an experiment, ACM-HC created this "short term fellowship" to attract historians' attention to these materials as well as to support two projects directly. The awards are modest, $2,500; but the conditions are rather wide-open. You might travel to Stanford and use ACM-relevant materials there, or to Hagley, or anywhere (even CBI). There are also on-line materials, including some organizational records, conference proceedings, and a growing set of oral histories with ACM luminaries. (For some of these, you'll need access to the ACM Digital Library.) The deadline for proposals is SOON -- 30 April. Please have a look at the announcement below, or the formal announcement soon to appear on . Then, please frame a research project that has *some* significant ACM angle: for instance, you might investigate how an ACM conference sparked interest in a particular set of computing developments; or investigate one of the ACM Turing Award winners; or even examine some organizational aspect of ACM's universe of SIGS). Merely mentioning that someone was an ACM member is likely under-the-bar for significance. We hope to get a solid out-pouring of proposals. Especially if there are a good number of high-quality proposals, it's more likely that future funding would be continued -- possibly even expanded. Thanks for your attention! Best, Tom Misa ==================================== ACM History Committee Short-term Fellowships in ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has members in more than 100 countries. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee announces a new program of short-term fellowships in ACM history. This year we plan to make up to two $2,500 awards to support historical research on the wide variety of ACM related activities, including ACM members, officers, and prize winners, as well as ACM as an organization. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. To Apply: Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 750-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research project; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); and [c] discusses the project's planned outcome (e.g. conference paper, journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, etc.). In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the extensive list of ACM historical resources posted at (click on ?Links? and choose ?ACM Research Materials?). Other research materials relating to ACM's rich history may also be used. Applications should include a letter of endorsement from their home department or institution. Proposals are due by 30 April 2009. Proposals should be submitted as .pdf documents to . Notification of awards will be made within six weeks. ============================================ From anker at itu.dk Mon Mar 16 11:03:12 2009 From: anker at itu.dk (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anker_Helms_J=F8rgensen?=) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:03:12 +0100 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Ph.D. scholarships in history of User Interfaces at IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: Dear Colleagues. Please pass this announcement to relevant parties. Thanks ? Anker Helms Jorgensen, IT University of Copenhagen. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A n n o u n c e m e n t - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) a considerable number of Ph.D. study scholarships are offered in a broad range of areas within IT, among these User Interface History. The PhD will last three years and will commence in the fall 2009. The scholarships are fully funded. The applicants are expected to submit a max. 5 page research proposal. The application deadline is April 16. For further detail see below. User interface history To the best of my knowledge, no historians have yet embarked on user interface history, although user interfaces are as old as digital, electronic computers. So far only researchers from Human-Computer Interaction and Media Studies have addressed their history. This PhD call aims at attracting applicants with a degree in history of techology or history of computing. ITU and history ITU offers the PhD scholarships although ITU does not have a study program in technology history. The reputation of ITU in this area is limited, but history is considered important at the ITU. The PhD student will be supervised by me (Anker Helms Jorgensen) who in recent years has done research in history of user interfaces. Although being a relative newcomer in history of computing, I have substantial experience in PhD supervision as I have supervised 11 PhDs - at the ITU and University of Copenhagen - in HCI, virtual worlds, and video games. My approach to user interface history The background to my interest in user interface history interest is threefold. Firstly, my activities in HCI as researcher, teacher and practitioner for three decades. As time passes, interest in the past often surfaces. Secondly, user interfaces are coming of age and I find that the time is ripe to address their history ? just like the history of computers and computing has been addressed for several decades. Many papers and books address selected aspects of HCI history and user interface history ? some in great depth ? but only a handful of papers address user interface/HCI history in general. Written mostly by HCI scholars, their historiographic genre must be considered internalistic - with a few exceptions. Thirdly, the generation growing up seems to have very little knowledge about historical aspects of user interfaces - and computing for that matter. I would like to help remedy this by creating more focus on user interface history. My aim is to adopt a contextual approach as this seems timely and most beneficial. My recent paper ?Context and Driving Forces in the Development of the Early Computer Game Nimbi?, appearing in the July issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, illustrates this approach. The key point is that early gaming was far more than entertainment and invoved organisational and social aspects such as educating the general public about the potential of computers. In addition, my approach to user interface history is ?history from below?. This contrasts current studies, most of which address the development of the predominant graphical user interface and the influence of early visionaries such as Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay, i.e. a ?history from above? approach. Examples of ?from below? projects are plugboard programming, portraits of user interface designers of the 1960s, the role of the pervasive IBM 3270 display protocol, and the user interface of WordPerfect (a loved and hated word processor of the 1980s). Further detail Applicants are expected to submit a maximum 5 page project proposal. I?m more than willing to help potential applicants write a convincing project proposal. We expect that successful applicants have earned a MA in Technology History, History, or similar. The deadline is April 16 at noon Danish time. For further detail please visit http://www1.itu.dk/sw65235.asp http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/ Stillingsopslag/TAP/Stillingsopslag%202009/PhDSpring%202009-2.pdf Please don?t hesitate to contact me for further information: anker at itu.dk, phone: +45 72 18 50 20. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o- Anker Helms Jorgensen Associate Professor, PhD IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaardsvej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark anker at itu.dk http://www1.itu.dk/sw4489.asp +45 72 18 50 00 From tmisa at umn.edu Tue Mar 24 09:42:18 2009 From: tmisa at umn.edu (tmisa at umn.edu) Date: 24 Mar 2009 08:42:18 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] ACM-HC: Short-term Fellowships in ACM History (deadline 30 April) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please think seriously about developing a proposal for this new fellowship opportunity. As I mentioned in the "early" version, this is an experiment. If there are numerous, high-quality proposals it's more likely that the experiment will continue. The 'fine print' is true: there are not extensive requirements or restrictions; the intent is to cultivate ACM history -- and to draw attention -- and use -- to the ACM research materials. Best, Tom Misa ===================================================== website: ACM History Committee Short-term Fellowships in ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has members in more than 100 countries. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee announces a new program of short-term fellowships in ACM history. This year we plan to make up to two $2,500 awards to support historical research on the wide variety of ACM related activities, including ACM members, officers, and prize winners, as well as ACM as an organization. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. To Apply: Applicants should send 2-page CV as well as a 750-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research project; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); and [c] discusses the project's planned outcome (e.g. conference paper, journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, etc.). In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the extensive list of ACM historical resources posted at . Other research materials relating to ACM's rich history may also be used. Applications should include a letter of endorsement from their home department or institution. Proposals are due by 30 April 2009. Proposals should be submitted as .pdf documents to . Notification of awards will be made within six weeks. From jwcorta at us.ibm.com Wed Mar 25 16:07:17 2009 From: jwcorta at us.ibm.com (James Cortada) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:07:17 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Technology Exhibit Prize In-Reply-To: <20090131230046.577C19FB9AF@athena.union.edu> References: <000001c9838d$850fea90$0301a8c0@evan> <498489AC.3020204@umn.edu> <8bc235380901311249u26f384ccyd77b7f1347384378@mail.gmail.com> <20090131230046.577C19FB9AF@athena.union.edu> Message-ID: As many of you are probably aware, one of SHOT's prizes is for a technology exhibit at a museum. I just joined the prize committee and want to make sure that if any really great exhibits that you have seen that have been opened to the public anywhere in the world in the past two years gets a chance to compete. If you are aware of a potential candidate, would you let me know? Here is a description of the award: http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/dibner.html I would like to move on this fairly quickly as the deadline is looming. Thanks! Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 3001 West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta at us.ibm.com 608-270-4462 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090325/429f8df2/attachment-0001.htm From thaigh at computer.org Wed Mar 25 16:53:47 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:53:47 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] CFP - Conference on History of Records and Archives, London, July 2010 Message-ID: <002f01c9ad8b$cccd5d40$666817c0$@org> Hello everyone, You'll find below a call from a related group whose existence I was previously unaware of. The themes given appear to have a business history focus that would be relevant to people studying the history of data processing, accounting, office management, etc. Note the early deadline - 14 months before the meeting! Tom From: Barbara Craig [mailto:] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:25 AM To: Matthew Gilmore; HTECH-L-request at SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU; thaigh at computer.org; info at archimuse.com; devorsey at amnh.org; rozov at nsu.ru; millarj at lib.muohio.edu; digicult at cec.eu.int; susanmclinney at mail.ogc.umn.edu; ANTHRO-L-request at listserv.buffalo.edu Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on History of Records and Archives Good morning Moderators: I enclose and attach a call for papers which we think will appeal to you readers. Many thanks in advance for posting this call for I-CHORA 5 and we hope many of you members will consider submitting proposals. blc ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ........................................................................ *Apologies for cross-posting* CALL FOR PAPERS I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on History of Records and Archives 'Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time' Following previously successful I-CHORA conferences in Toronto (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Boston (2007) and Perth (2008), The National Archives, University College London and University of Liverpool are delighted to announce the forthcoming I-CHORA to be held in London from Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 July 2010. Proposals are now invited for papers, which may address (but are not restricted to) issues in the following themes: 1. Early technologies and the origins of recordkeeping 2. Technology, records and the growth of bureaucracy 3. Creating and using records in the workplace 4. Responding to technological change Please submit 500-word abstract by 30 April 2009 For more information please visit our website at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ichora5 I-CHORA5 at nationalarchives.gov.uk Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time -- Barbara L. Craig Faculty of Information 140 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6 Canada Tel: 416-978-7093 Fax: 416-971-1399 (Not a Private Fax) E-Mail: Barbara.Craig at utoronto.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20090325/f4c5d2fe/attachment.htm From thaigh at computer.org Wed Mar 25 19:02:17 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:02:17 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] ACM-HC: Short-term Fellowships in ACM History (deadline 30 April) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <006e01c9ad9d$bfe6bb50$3fb431f0$@org> Hello everyone, Let me just encourage you to follow up on Tom's call to ensure a good supply high grade proposals. As far as I know CBI has not yet issued a finding aid for its new ACM collection, so taking advantage of existing collections with published finding aids could be a valuable complement. In working out a proposal you may find useful my article "Sources for ACM History: What, Where, Why" (with Elizabeth Kaplan and Carrie Seib), Communications of the ACM 50:5 (May 2007):36-41. http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ACMHistorySources.pdf This includes discussion (mostly by the coauthors, who are formed CBI archivists) of ACM related materials in archival centers across the country. There are really an enormous number of topics that could be fitted into this call. According to the CBI blog at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/horow021/cbi/ you can email horow021 at umn.edu if you want to know more about the new collection. If you're interested in seeing what else the ACM History Committee has been doing its website at http://history.acm.org/ includes links and minutes. Back in 2003/4 as an original member of the ACM History Committee I did my best to convince its non-historian members that the three most effective and cost effective investments the association could make to ensure that its own history and the history of its field were told would be (1) get its papers archived at a major center, (2) set up grants in aid, and (3) sponsor a SHOT prize. I'm thrilled to see that the ACM (prompted I'm sure by Tom Misa's and Bill Aspray's skills of charm and persuasion rather than any influence of my own long ago suggestions) has now acted on the two most important of these. Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On Behalf Of tmisa at umn.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:42 AM To: SIGCIS special interest group Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] ACM-HC: Short-term Fellowships in ACM History (deadline 30 April) Dear colleagues, Please think seriously about developing a proposal for this new fellowship opportunity. As I mentioned in the "early" version, this is an experiment. If there are numerous, high-quality proposals it's more likely that the experiment will continue. The 'fine print' is true: there are not extensive requirements or restrictions; the intent is to cultivate ACM history -- and to draw attention -- and use -- to the ACM research materials. Best, Tom Misa ===================================================== website: ACM History Committee Short-term Fellowships in ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has members in more than 100 countries. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee announces a new program of short-term fellowships in ACM history. This year we plan to make up to two $2,500 awards to support historical research on the wide variety of ACM related activities, including ACM members, officers, and prize winners, as well as ACM as an organization. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. To Apply: Applicants should send 2-page CV as well as a 750-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research project; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); and [c] discusses the project's planned outcome (e.g. conference paper, journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, etc.). In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the extensive list of ACM historical resources posted at . Other research materials relating to ACM's rich history may also be used. Applications should include a letter of endorsement from their home department or institution. Proposals are due by 30 April 2009. Proposals should be submitted as .pdf documents to . Notification of awards will be made within six weeks. _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members From tmisa at umn.edu Fri Mar 27 09:33:02 2009 From: tmisa at umn.edu (tmisa at umn.edu) Date: 27 Mar 2009 08:33:02 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] follow-up: Short-term Fellowships in ACM History (deadline 30 April) In-Reply-To: <006e01c9ad9d$bfe6bb50$3fb431f0$@org> References: <006e01c9ad9d$bfe6bb50$3fb431f0$@org> Message-ID: Hi all, Just a "follow-up" to Tom Haigh's suggestion -- he is exactly right: "There are really an enormous number of topics that could be fitted into this call." See the detailed listing of possible ACM Research materials, linked to: 1. GOOD proposals are what ACM's History Committee is looking for -- and needs to see. Please don't send in incomplete, poorly done attempts. That will do no one credit. 2. The ACM headquarters papers are still being processed at CBI as we speak. For questions about possible access, prior to the archiving project's completion, please contact Loralee Bloom . 3. The HC wants to draw attention to the entire range of historical materials that the ACM has devoted resources to. In addition to traditional paper-based archives, there are also on-line "raw materials" for a possible project: oral histories, ACM Turing prize websites, and a treasure-trove of historical material in ACM's immense "Digital Library." For the latter, you'll need to get access through your university/institution (or by joining ACM including Digital Library access). You can find there full text of most ACM journals and proceedings since 1950 . . . publications of affiliated organization (24 journals, including ALGOL Bulletin [1959-84], Computational Linguistics [1980--], Very Large Data Bases [1975--], etc.) . . . AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences 1951-84 . . . . Many thanks, Tom Misa On Mar 25 2009, Thomas Haigh wrote: >Hello everyone, > > Let me just encourage you to follow up on Tom's call to ensure a good > supply high grade proposals. > > As far as I know CBI has not yet issued a finding aid for its new ACM > collection, so taking advantage of existing collections with published > finding aids could be a valuable complement. In working out a proposal > you may find useful my article "Sources for ACM History: What, Where, > Why" (with Elizabeth Kaplan and Carrie Seib), Communications of the ACM > 50:5 (May > 2007):36-41. http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ACMHistorySources.pdf > This includes discussion (mostly by the coauthors, who are formed CBI > archivists) of ACM related materials in archival centers across the > country. There are really an enormous number of topics that could be > fitted into this call. > >According to the CBI blog at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/horow021/cbi/ you can >email horow021 at umn.edu if you want to know more about the new collection. > > If you're interested in seeing what else the ACM History Committee has > been doing its website at http://history.acm.org/ includes links and > minutes. Back in 2003/4 as an original member of the ACM History > Committee I did my best to convince its non-historian members that the > three most effective and cost effective investments the association could > make to ensure that its own history and the history of its field were > told would be (1) get its papers archived at a major center, (2) set up > grants in aid, and (3) sponsor a SHOT prize. I'm thrilled to see that the > ACM (prompted I'm sure by Tom Misa's and Bill Aspray's skills of charm > and persuasion rather than any influence of my own long ago suggestions) > has now acted on the two most important of these. > >Tom > >-----Original Message----- >From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On >Behalf Of tmisa at umn.edu >Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:42 AM >To: SIGCIS special interest group >Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] ACM-HC: Short-term Fellowships in ACM History >(deadline 30 April) > >Dear colleagues, > > Please think seriously about developing a proposal for this new > fellowship opportunity. As I mentioned in the "early" version, this is an > experiment. If there are numerous, high-quality proposals it's more > likely that the experiment will continue. The 'fine print' is true: there > are not extensive requirements or restrictions; the intent is to > cultivate ACM history -- and to draw attention -- and use -- to the ACM > research materials. > >Best, Tom Misa > >===================================================== > >website: > >ACM History Committee >Short-term Fellowships in ACM History > > The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest > and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing > profession, and today has members in more than 100 countries. To > encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee announces a new > program of short-term fellowships in ACM history. This year we plan to > make up to two $2,500 awards to support historical research on the wide > variety of ACM related activities, including ACM members, officers, and > prize winners, as well as ACM as an organization. Successful candidates > may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. > >To Apply: > >Applicants should send 2-page CV as well as a 750-word project description >that [a] describes the proposed research project; [b] identifies the >importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional >archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, >digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); and [c] >discusses the project's planned outcome (e.g. conference paper, journal >article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, >etc.). > >In preparing a proposal, applicants should examine the extensive list of >ACM historical resources posted at >. Other research materials >relating to ACM's rich history may also be used. Applications should >include a letter of endorsement from their home department or institution. > >Proposals are due by 30 April 2009. Proposals should be submitted as .pdf >documents to . Notification of awards will be >made within six weeks. > >_______________________________________________ >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 > > _______________________________________________ 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 > -- Thomas J. Misa Director, Charles Babbage Institute 211 Andersen Library 222 - 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624.5050 tel 612 625.8054 fax http://www.cbi.umn.edu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program for History of Science, Technology & Medicine =========================================================== From CeruzziP at si.edu Fri Mar 27 10:16:30 2009 From: CeruzziP at si.edu (Ceruzzi, Paul) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:16:30 -0400 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Free to good home -- AFIPS Fall & Spring JCC proceedings. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <39E881CB59D4454295FDDDA5605EE7FC01762539@SI-ECL01.US.SINET.SI.EDU> Fellow SIG members: I have a semi-complete set of AFIPS Fall and Spring Joint Computer Conference proceedings, which I would like to give to a good home. I offered them to CBI, which already has most of them (I sent them a few to fill in gaps), to J.F. Ptak, who no longer deals much in this subject, and to the Smithsonian Archives, which is not interested. I don't have time to do an exact inventory, but I estimate about 30 volumes. If you've ever used them you know they are quite heavy, so I will have to ship them in multiple mailings. I don't think I can handle an international shipment. The ideal recipient would be a library where they would be appreciated. I would love to keep them myself but I am really hurting for space, both at work and at home. Paul E. Ceruzzi, MRC 311, National Air and Space Museum, PO Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012. phone: 202-633-2414. -----Original Message----- From thaigh at computer.org Sun Mar 29 01:42:10 2009 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:42:10 -0500 Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Chairs and commentators needed for SHOT panels Message-ID: <000f01c9b031$3ab6bbb0$b0243310$@org> Hello everyone, We're putting the finishing touches on two new SIGCIS panel proposals for the SHOT 2009 meeting. These are (provisionally) entitled . Paths Not Taken in the History of Information Technology . Materiality Meets Practice Each needs a chair and a commentator. Volunteers are sought. You are allowed to chair a session and present in another one. I'm not sure whether you can comment and present at the same meeting. 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