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Studying computing's past to make sense of present. Special Interest Group Cmptrs, Info & Society in @sochisttech. Retweets not endorsements! Info: @liz_petrick
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Joined June 2012
Please join me in welcoming 3 new members to the SIGCIS Conference Organizing Committee! Katya Babintseva (@BabintsevaK), Gili Vidan, and Colette Perold (@coletteperold). Thank you for helping keep SIGCIS going strong!.
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RT @dag_spicer: Happy Pride everyone from the Computer History Museum! Today we celebrate 2012 CHM Fellow Sophie Wilson, co-inventor of the….
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A reminder that proposals for #sigcis2023, Online Edition 2.0, are due June 1st. The virtual conference will be held September 21-23, 2023.
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RT @JustCodeCulture: A new essay/review published in Interfaces, "From a Teapot to Toy Story. " on symposia in Utah in March '23. @SIGCIS….
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2023 Mahoney Prize for best article in the history of computing is now accepting nominations! Nominations are due by April 30th. More info on the website.
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2023 Computer History Museum Prize, nominations now open and due by April 30th. More information on the website.
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SIGCIS 2023 Call for Papers. We will be having an online conference this year, Sept 21-23. Proposals due June 1. Spread the word!.
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RT @dag_spicer: PONG is 50! From its origins in a smoke-filled Silicon Valley bar to neurons in a Petri dish, PONG is here to stay. Read my….
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RT @dag_spicer: Legendary computer architect Fred Brooks passed away today. Brooks led the team creating the timeless IBM System/360 mainfr….
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Also pleased to announce Theodora Vardouli and David Theodore's article, “Walking Instead of Working: Space Allocation, Automatic Architecture, and the Abstraction of Hospital Labor,” as winner of the 2022 Mahoney Prize.
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Happy to announce Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics as the winner of the 2022 Computer History Museum book prize!.
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I hope everyone had a good #sigcis2022! We'll see you next year, at @SocHistTech or at our virtual #sigcis2023.
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The final sessions today will be on: "Exploring Data: Meaning, Ethics, Law, and Computation" and "Constructing Global Systems." #sigcis2022.
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Afternoon sessions beginning on: "Infrastructure, Internets, Switches, and Standards," "Embodiment, Education, Expression," and "Computing Beyond Carbon." #sigcis2022.
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Next up will be sessions on: "Legal and Political Constructions of Computing," "Minds and Machines," and "Out of Sight / Out of Mind: The Limits of Historical Representation." #sigcis2022.
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These are big methodological questions about how we understand a technological world as it's under construction.
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