Subject: [Nethistory] Deadlines and dinner; networking history within major software conference (SIGCIS) at the Computer History Museum

From: Marc Weber <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 01:22:31 +0100

The Computer History Museum is hosting and co-organizing a special conference of SIGCIS <http://meetings.sigcis.org/> the weekend of March 17-18; this group has become a major forum in the US for historians of computing. In that same week we will also host several private meetings (ACM history committee, IEEE editorial board, etc.), so a lot of key folks in the field will be around and also attend some or all SIGCIS events.

The theme of the event is software, as part of our general software initiative including the opening of our major new exhibition <http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/makesoftware/> on the social role of software and its increasingly connected nature. 

The conference welcomes papers around Web, net, and online history; I would encourage you and colleagues to submit and the deadline is December 30(!). The Call for Papers is here <http://meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-papers.html>. 

Within the conference the CHM Internet History Program <http://computerhistory.org/nethistory> is presenting a roundtable on cyberspace history and connected software, focused on how software is steadily moving online and heading for the kind of preservation issues that have affected the online world. 

The Internet History Program will also also be hosting a Cyberspace History Dinner to bring together people involved in Web, net, and mobile computing history on the Saturday evening following the general reception. One agenda item is to ask people to contribute knowledge to the expanded timeline of online history. Please let me know if you are interested in attending. 

As part of the conference we will have tours of both the new exhibition and all of our old ones, including our permanent exhibition with its Web <http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20>, Networking <http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19>, and Mobile Computing <http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18> galleries. The new Center for Software History and the Internet History Program will describe the various resources at CHM for researchers, including documents, video, software, images, etc.; we have one of the most important collections of networking history materials including the archives of the Networking Information Center at SRI. There will also be a field trip to our new offsite archive and research facility including the greatly expanding Digital Repository. 

I hope to welcome you in March! 

Best regards,

Marc

Marc Weber <http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/>
Curatorial Director, Internet History Program <http://computerhistory.org/nethistory>
Computer History Museum

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