Packing a tiny room for the Materiality Meets Practice session…..as Jeff Tang discusses the material constraints of the RCA jack interface.David Alan Grier intones splendidly on materiality as Jim Cortada looks on…Â …and jaws drop.Stephen Patnode receives a travel award at the SIGCIS lunch……where Christophe Lecuyer was awarded the inagural Computer History Museum prize.Haigh hosted the event……but David Anderson showed star quality as the book auctioneer.Our session on Paths Not Taken and Paths Retraced attracted another sizable audience.Paul Ceruzzi’s paper on technological trajectories……proved equally fascinating……as did Peter Meyer’s comments.At the workshop, Bill Aspray delivered a moving discussion of Mahoney’s life and work in the opening plenary……followed by Gerard Alberts on Mahoney’s historiography……to a crowd of around 45 people.Our lunch party at Priamati Bros was seated outside…..which was a little cold……but the food was seized on with gusto.The lucky few sat inside……this famed establishment.Returning from lunch……we stopped for a photograph.Paul Ceruzzi asked a question in an afternoon session.Irina Nikiforova and Corinna Schlombs talked intently during a break……as David Nofre joked with Helena Durnova…..before giving us all a shadowy fright.Larry Owens commanded a crowd with his visualization of computer history, even after his projector was taken away!After a short rest we headed out for dinner and across the bridge……to Buca di Beppo, once recommended by Mahoney for SIGCIS.Pierre Mounier Kuhn enjoyed flamboyant American desert……as it rotated past……in a tasteful setting dominated by a tabletop Pope.Chigusa Kita chatted with Paul Ceruzzi over coffee……and Stephen Patnode spoke with Irina Nikiforova.Gerard Alberts discovered a stylish sign on the way back to the Hilton, following a successful end to our first workshop.
