Other Events

The web pages of the History of Science Society and the Society for History of Technology both keep calendars of events of their own meetings and those sponsored by others in the history of science and history of technology, respectively. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has events almost every month. For information about their events, see their online calendar of events. Below are some additional meetings and events of particular relevance to IT history.

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Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

The Adventure of Computer Science
In the new exhibition »The Adventure of Computer Science«, visitors can embark on a voyage of discovery though the fascinating world of computer science, which has now pervaded almost every aspect of our daily lives and yet remains mysterious at so many levels. They will have the opportunity to shed light on numerous mysteries at over 20 hands-on experimental stations – without the use of complex technical know-how. Puzzles involving monkeys and tortoises will demonstrate whether computers can really calculate everything. And the question of how a tiny smart card can accommodate so many digital images is answered. The Technical University of Darmstadt's interactive touring exhibition is on show at the HNF until 5 September.
June 06, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany
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Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

The Algorithmic Character of Our World
The photographic exhibition »The Algorithmic Character of Our World – Processes, Structure and Control in Nature and Everyday Life« will be showing 40 black-and-white photographs by Paderborn-based photographer and HNF curator Jochen Viehoff. He has been taking photographs of scenes and motifs from the natural world and daily life since 2006, with a view to illustrating the principles of programming in a fashion designed to entertain, surprise and inform those who behold them. The extensive analogies between computer science, nature and our familiar technological environment are simply astonishing.
June 06, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany
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University of Leiden, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), European Science Foundation

Workshop History of Software, European styles
In one of its more daring turns, history of computing is addressing the historical study of software. The project 'Software for Europe: constructing Europe through software' (SOFT-EU) is among the major efforts in this new direction, a project sponsored by the European Science Foundation as part of the EUROCORES program Inventing Europe. In September 2010, the workshop History of Software, European styles will bring the research results of SOFT-EU project to a synthesis. Hence SOFT-EU invites the science studies, history of computing, philosophy of computing and computing science communities to comment on our findings.
September 13, 2010 - September 17, 2010
Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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TBA

From Automation to Computerized Design: Industrial Engineering, Machine Tools, and Digital Frontiers
(from: Call for papers) To honor the centenary of Pierre Bézier
September 15, 2010 - September 17, 2010
Paris, France
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Dutch KRING

Slide Rule Collectors
In September 2010 the Dutch Circle will host the 16th International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors. For the fifth time in the 16-year history of IM's, this will be in The Netherlands. The organizing committee of the Dutch KRING has begun preparations for the meeting early this year. For your diary: the meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 17-18, 2010. The chosen location is the old city of Leiden, see map by Joan Blaeu from the 1640s:
September 17, 2010 - September 18, 2010
Leiden, Holland
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IFIP World Computer Congress 2010

International Federation for Information Processing
September 20, 2010 - September 23, 2010
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia
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Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting

SHOT Annual Meeting
The Society will hold its 2010 annual meeting from the 30 September to 3 October, in the city of Tacoma, Washington. Over the course of four days, the meeting will feature dozens of sessions on a variety of scholarly topics within the discipline, the Society's annual awards banquet, and tours of historic sites around the region. Information about the conference theme and the call for papers will be forthcoming.
September 29, 2010 - October 04, 2010
Tacoma, WA
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SIGCIS

Workshop: Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing
The Society for the History of Technology’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS – www.sigcis.org) welcomes submissions for its latest one day scholarly workshop on Materiality and Immateriality in the History of Computing. The workshop will be held in Tacoma Washington all day on Sunday, October 3 2010. This is the final day of the annual SHOT meeting. SHOT has reserved that day for SIG events and therefore the symposium will not overlap scheduled sessions in the main program. For details on the main SHOT meeting see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html. In keeping with the conference theme contributions that consider material aspects of the history of information technology (people, things, places, physical technologies and their relationship to work, practice, users, standards, and so on), immaterial aspects of the history of computing (logical standards, program code, theory, virtual technologies/environments/communities) or the relationship between the two are particularly welcome. However our practice is to welcome contributions on all topics related to the history of computing whether or not there is an explicit connection with the annual theme. Our membership is interdisciplinary and proposals are expected from the perspectives of business history, labor history, social history, science studies and the history of science as well as from historians of technology. Proposals for entire sessions and individual presenters are both welcome. We hope to run special sessions featuring dissertations in progress and other works in progress. The workshop is a great opportunity to get helpful feedback on your projects in a relaxed and supportive environment. All proposals will be subject to a peer review process. All submissions should be made via the web by 1 July, 2010. Limited travel assistance for graduate students is available. For full information including detailed submission requirements please go to http://www.sigcis.org/?q=workshop10. Questions should be addressed to Jeffrey Tang who is serving as chair of the workshop organizing committee. Email tangjd@jmu.edu
October 03, 2010
Tacoma, Washington
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National Security Agency

Cryptologic History Symposium
The National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic History sponsors the Cryptologic History Symposium every two years. The next one will be held 6-7 October 2011. Historians from the Center, the Intelligence Community, the defense establishment, and the military services, as well as distinguished scholars from American and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the profession, and the interested public all will gather for two days of reflection and debate on topics from the cryptologic past. The theme for the upcoming conference will be: “Cryptology in War and Peace: Crisis Points in History.” This topical approach is especially relevant as the year 2011 is an important anniversary marking the start of many seminal events in our nation’s military history. The events that can be commemorated are many.
October 06, 2010 - October 07, 2010
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel, Maryland
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IFIP WG 9.7

History of Nordic Computing
The first and second conferences on the history of Nordic computing, organized in Trondheim (2003) and Turku (2007) respectively, were very successful and acquired a great deal of interest from information and communication technology (ICT) professionals and academics as well as from historians of technology. Therefore, these conferences will now be followed by a third one, which will take place in Stockholm, October 2010. The conference will also honour the successful completion of a project on Swedish ICT history. Called “From Computing Machines to IT”, the Swedish Computer Society initiated the project with the support of the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the National Museum of Science and Technology.
October 18, 2010 - October 20, 2010
Stockholm, Sweden
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