Special Int. Group for History of Computing

#sigcis2023 keynote is about to begin, with Tung-Hui Hu!

#sigcis2023 is in just a few days! Join us online! meetings.sigcis.org

#sigcis2023 is coming up Sept 21-23. Register here! meetings.sigcis.org/registration.h…

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!

Happy Pride everyone from the Computer History Museum! Today we celebrate 2012 CHM Fellow Sophie Wilson, co-inventor of the BBC Micro and the ARM microprocessor architecture. @Computerhistory @SocHistTech @IEEESpectrum @SIGCIS @HRC @Arm

A reminder that proposals for #sigcis2023, Online Edition 2.0, are due June 1st. The virtual conference will be held September 21-23, 2023. meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-parti…

A new essay/review published in Interfaces, "From a Teapot to Toy Story..." on symposia in Utah in March '23. @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb @siggraph @sigchi #graphics #vr #ai #pixar #atari #softwarehistory z.umn.edu/TeapottoToySto…

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. sigcis.org/mahoneyprize

2023 Computer History Museum Prize, nominations now open and due by April 30th. More information on the website. sigcis.org/chmprize

SIGCIS 2023 Call for Papers. We will be having an online conference this year, Sept 21-23. Proposals due June 1. Spread the word! meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-parti…

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 blog: computerhistory.org/blog/50-years-… @ComputerHistory @SIGCIS @vcfederation

Legendary computer architect Fred Brooks passed away today. Brooks led the team creating the timeless IBM System/360 mainframe architecture as well as development of OS/360. Hear Brooks @ComputerHistory computerhistory.org/revolution/mai… @SIGCIS @IEEESpectrum @TheOfficialACM @ibm @unc

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. sigcis.org/node/637

Happy to announce Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics as the winner of the 2022 Computer History Museum book prize! sigcis.org/node/638

I hope everyone had a good #sigcis2022! We'll see you next year, at @SocHistTech or at our virtual #sigcis2023.

The final sessions today will be on: "Exploring Data: Meaning, Ethics, Law, and Computation" and "Constructing Global Systems." #sigcis2022

Afternoon sessions beginning on: "Infrastructure, Internets, Switches, and Standards," "Embodiment, Education, Expression," and "Computing Beyond Carbon." #sigcis2022

Just about time for #sigcis2022 lunch and the famous SIGCIS book auction!

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

These are big methodological questions about how we understand a technological world as it's under construction.

Collective histories to make sense of technologies under construction. How we use history to understand technology as it's unfolding and being hidden from us. The role of speculation as technology is evolving/changing, as a form of knowledge-making.

Keynote starting with Lilly Irani (@gleemie), on "Telling Histories for the Future." #sigcis2022