Archives par mot-clé : Informatique
Embodied Software
Le numéro de juillet – septembre 2015 de IEEE Annals of the History of Computing a été coordonné par Nathan Ensemenger.
This issue features articles on software in the context of the history of intellectual property, the first in a two-part series on the challenge of writing contemporary history by James Cortada, an exploration of the transition from analog to digital methods in the modeling of electrical power distribution networks, an article on computing prime numbers on the ENIAC and EDSAC, and a firsthand account of the IBM Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) project of the mid-to-late 1960s by Brian Randell.
Nathan Ensmenger, “From the Editor’s Desk”, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.37, no. 3, pp. 2-3, July-Sept. 2015, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2015.63
Computer Chronicles
The Computer Chronicles from 1983 is like a spoof of a 1980s program, but real. Complete with Ghost Box-esque audio. https://t.co/Qn5l6sddJv
— Simon Webster (@TiredHippo) November 22, 2015
Les informaticiennes, de la dominance de classe aux discriminations de sexe (Isabelle Collet)
Après avoir beaucoup travaillé sur la question du genre dans les sciences et techniques, elle explore maintenant les questions de mixité à l’école, en particulier la mise en œuvre d’une co-éducation entre garçons et filles dans toutes les disciplines scolaires.
Organisé dans le cadre du Colloquium d’informatique de l’UPMC Sorbonne Universités cet exposé aura lieu :
Amphi 25
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Campus Jussieu)
4, place Jussieu
Paris Vème (métro Jussieu)Un cocktail ouvert à tous est prévu à 17h15 en prélude à la conférence.
In response to endless Barbie debacle Meet #FeministHackerBarbie http://t.co/9hk2KYLvfn http://t.co/AfKBdiXx3z via @BoingBoing
— Soraya Chemaly (@schemaly) November 23, 2014
Séminaire 2015-2016 : “Image du savoir pratique. L’informaticien et le médecin dans les récits de fiction populaires contemporains”.
Le thème de l’année est ” Institutions et déviances.” Programme 2015/2016
Les séminaires ont lieu à la MISHA, 5, rue de Général Rouvillois, 67000 Strasbourg.
Pour tout renseignement : catherine.allamelraffin@unistra.fr
Le Geek, Le Nerd et la Geekette (Geektionnerd) CC BY-SA 3.0, Simon « Gee » Giraudot http://geektionnerd/net/
Time(s) and materiality of the Internet discussed at IR16 Phoenix / Part 2

Old Thinkpad with 3Com Ethernet / modem PCMCIA card sticking out
Jim Henderson, travail personnel, CC0
The second panel, “Material”, held on Thursday 23 October, provided some very interesting perspectives on the ‘mundane’ devices that are such an integral part of how we interact with, and indeed, define, our relation to the digital. James Allen-Robertson (University of Essex, UK) focused on the Hard Disk drive as a material foundation for contemporary digital media, providing a historical perspective drawing elements from the development of the Gramophone and Phonograph, Magnetic Tape and Optical Media – a perspective that leveraged Foucault’s concept of ‘descent’ to provide a historical perspective on the way in which fundamental material factors constrain, influence and encourage particular uses of digital media. In the case of the Hard Disk, according to Allen-Robertson, the descent demonstrates how this device’s operation plays a role in the affordances of digital media and how these affordances are prefigured in older media technologies. In his piece “Singing Data Over the Phone”, Kevin Driscoll (Microsoft Research) focused on the modem instead, as a “singularly powerful symbol of late-20th century personal computer networking”. Operating at the junction of computing and communication, he argued, the modem was a device that both defined and defied boundaries during the early history of the net. First, during the period of rapid deregulation of U.S. telecommunications during the 1970s, when modems enabled thousands of microcomputer enthusiasts to exchange data and ideas over standard telephone wires. Second, as PC ownership grew more commonplace during the 1980s, when the modem became a mark of distinction, differentiating the everyday home computer owner from the small but growing telecomputing vanguard. As “a meeting point between the novel and legacy systems of personal computing and telephony”, at the intersection of “virtual and translocal imaginaires”, the modem, Driscoll argued, is deserving of a “social history” of its own. Lindsay Ems, from Butler University, presented an ethnography-based analysis of the socio-technical innovations, including professional artifacts and arrangements, which reflect and protect Amish religious and cultural values in our increasingly digital economy. Wireless ad-hoc arrangements, double screens, were presented as mundane and everyday devices and professional practices that have profound political implications for the empowerment of Amish communities to resist the assimilation of their culture in mainstream society in an increasingly globally networked world. In her award-winning paper “The Digital Not-so-imaginary Behind Genderless Online Discourse”, Jenny Korn adopted a perspective grounded in muted group theory and analytical feminism to examine online discourse within users of the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system in the United States, PLATO. She explored how gender manifested within computer-mediated communication in PLATO as an early originator of online social computing. She exposed gendered muting processes that have persisted from that time, and showed that to attain voice, women have had to present themselves in stereotypical ways that are aligned with men’s discourse.
Francesca Musiani (ISCC)
Computer programs on paper
Did you used to write computer programs on paper? This exhibition wants your paper: http://t.co/XHp1UE02PT
— James Sumner (@JamesBSumner) September 2, 2015
Séminaire Codes Sources
Organisateurs
Raphaël Fournier (CNAM)
Baptiste Mélès (CNRS, Archives Henri-Poincaré)
Lionel Tabourier (LIP6).
Découvrir le carnet de recherche
Programme 2015/2016
1ère séance
Mercredi 14 octobre 2015
Georges Gonthier (Microsoft Research/INRIA), « Le génie logiciel des mathématiques formelles »
Cfp International Communities of Invention and Innovation (IFIP Working Group 9.7 Conference)
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
25-29 May 2016
Analog and digital computers were developed by individuals aware of an international scientific community. Likewise, although sometimes thought of as solely national projects, the first computer networks were built in an age of growing interconnectivity among nations. This meeting of IFIP Working Group 9.7 in New York City gathers historians and other professionals to reflect on histories that foreground the international community. Participants with an interest in this historical context for computers and computer networks may present academic papers or join in roundtable discussions.
In accordance with this theme, we hope to blur the dichotomy between core and periphery and complicate simplistic notions of linear technological progress. Far from a deterministic view that computers and computer networks were developed in isolation and according to their own technical imperatives, we will show the history of pre-existing relationships and communities that led to the triumphs (and dead ends) in the history of computing. This broad perspective will help us to tell a more accurate story of important developments like the Internet, to be sure, but also it will provide us with a better understanding of how to sponsor future invention and innovation.
SIGCIS Workshop 2015: Infrastructures
Computer security
CfP SIGCIS Workshop 2015: Infrastructures
SIGCIS Workshop 2015: Infrastructures
Sunday, October 11, 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- the maintenance of legacy hardware and software
- the training and treatment of labor and workforces
- the lived realities of computers and IT
- digital archives and their sustainability
- cyberinfrastructures for bureaucratic and scientific collaboration
- materiality of computing, media, and information technologies
- specific infrastructural technologies such as cables, fiber-optics, switching, and wireless
- political and economic aspects of infrastructure maintenance and development
- tensions between local or national legal regimes and global information infrastructures
Conférence de Boris Beaude le 23 juin 2015
Retour du cycle culture numérique au Lavoir Public (à Lyon), le mardi 23 juin de 19h à 21h, entrée libre: INTERNET VA-T-IL DISPARAITRE? REPONSE DE BORIS BEAUDE
Boris Beaude, chercheur au laboratoire Chôros de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, auteur du livre Les fins d’internet paru chez FYP en 2014, analysera le renversement de l’idéologie qui a prévalu à l’essor d’Internet, les raisons qui en font préfigurer la disparition, et fournira quelques clés qui permettraient de le sauver.
Un nouveau site pour le Computer Society History Commitee
https://twitter.com/RussellProf/status/585181713220902913