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Milan, Italy | October 27, 2019
The Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]
Keynote
Gerardo Con Díaz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
The Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]
Keynote
Gerardo Con Díaz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
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8:00am | Registration
8:45am | Opening Remarks and SIGCIS Awards
Jason Gallo, Researcher, Society and Technology Policy Institute, SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Operations
Laine Nooney, Assistant Professor, New York University, SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings
9:00am-10:15am | Keynote
What is Software?: Patent Law and the Many Natures of Software
Gerardo Con Díaz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
10:15am-10:30am | Break
10:30am-12:15pm: Session A
Panel A.1: Collectives, Publics, Politics
Unavoidable Computer Futures and How to Avoid Them: Fear and Politics in Italian Cold War Computer Imaginaries
Ginevra Sanvitale // Doctoral Candidate // Eindhoven University of Technology
Routing Around the Exception: Mesh Networks as Infrastructure Sacer
Rory Solomon // Doctoral Candidate // New York University
Sanctions and Software: The U.S. Embargo on Cuba and Code
Sam Kellogg // Doctoral Student // New York University
The Paper Labyrinth: Cryptographic Imaginaries and Enclave Futures
Sarah Myers West // Postdoctoral Researchers // AI Now Institute, New York University
Chaired by Gili Vidan // Doctoral Candidate // Harvard University
Panel A.2: Making Digital Banks Work: A European Perspective
Reliability, Security, Errors, and Other Evils at the Dawn of Electronic Bank Transfers in the 1970s-1980s
J. Carles Maixé-Altés // Professor // University of A Coruña, Spain
Centralized Computing and Errors in the Financial Sector of East-and-West Germany, 1957-1975
Martin Schmitt // Research Fellow // Technical University Darmstadt
Studying Users of Digital Banking Services in Europe
Florian Vetter // Doctoral Student // University of Luxemoburg
Chaired by Valérie Schafer, Professor // Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg
Panel A.3: Creative Logics
Canonizing Failure: Turing Machines and the Narrative Coupling of Logic and Computing
David Dunning // Doctoral Candidate // Princeton University
The Romantic Agon of the MIDI Protocol
Jessica Feldman // Assistant Professor // American University of Paris
Martin Scherzinger // Associate Professor // New York University
Listening to Computer History: Max Mathews, Laurie Spiegel, and Electronic Sound Synthesis at Bell Labs, 1957-1986
Charles Allan Eppley // Visiting Assistant Professor // Oberlin College
Fragmentation and Discontinuity in Access to the USPTO Full Text and Image Database
Simon Rowberry // Lecturer // University of Stirling
Chaired by Jacob Gaboury // Assistant Professor // University of California, Berkeley
12:30pm–2:00pm | LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm–3:45pm: SESSION B
Panel B.1: Carceral Computing
From Parent to CLNT: The “Faulty Family” and the Technical System of Child Support Enforcement
Marc Aidnoff // Doctoral Candidate // MIT
Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as both Reflection and Refraction of California’s Carceral State
Cierra Robson // Doctoral Student // Harvard University
All Eyez on Me: Carceral Citizen’s Feelings Toward Punishment, Surveillance, and Data Extraction
Kaneesha Johnson // Doctoral Candidate // Harvard University
ShotSpotter, Automated Enrollment of Policed Publics, and the Long History of Police Intelligence Schemes in Chicago’s Black Communities
Sarah T. Hamid // Community Organizer // Prison Tech Research Group
Chaired by Stephanie Dick // Assistant Professor // University of Pennsylvania
Panel B.2: Roundtable: Breaking the Limits of American-Centered Historiography: Gaming the Iron Curtain and From Russia with Code
Ksenia Tatarchenko // Assistant Professor // Singapore Management University
Vincent Antonon Lépinay // Associate Professor // Paris Institute of Political Studies
Zinaida Vasilyeva // Postdoctoral Researcher // Technical University of Munich
Jaroslav Švelch // Assistant Professor // Charles University
Moderated by Gleb J. Albert // Postdoctoral Researcher // University of Zürich
Works in Progress B.4 (Closed Door Peer Review Session)
A Question of Capacity: Academic Experts and the Creation of Centers and Peripheries in International Satellite Governance, 1959-1965
Sarah Nelson // Doctoral Student // Vanderbilt University
Programmers, Clerks, and Children. Exploring Computer Users and the Emergence of ‘Software Psychology’ in the 1970s
Markus Schmid // Doctoral Student // Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Information: Signal Economies, Communicative Materialism, and the Order of Discourse
Bernard Geoghegan // Senior Lecturer // King’s College London
How to Deal with Failure: Performativity, Uncertainty and Goodhart’s Law through Crises in Monetary Policy and Macroeconomics 1979-1995
Susannah Glickman // Doctoral Student // Columbia University
Works-in-Progress is facilitated by Con Díaz // Assistant Professor // University of California, Davis
3:45pm–4:00pm | BREAK
4:00pm–5:45pm: SESSION C
Panel C.1: The Digital as Material: Encounters with Space, Physicality, and Objects in Computer History
Rebuilding the Office around the Mainframe: IBM’s S/360 in Context
Sytze Van Herck // Doctoral Student // University of Luxembourg
Dirt, Silicon, Waste: The Earth as an Archive of Computing
Corinna Kirsch // Lecturer // Stony Brook University
Informal Networks of Awesomeness: Researching the Material Culture of Personal Computing
Kimon Keramidas // Associate Professor // New York University
Living in the Material World: Bridging the Analog/Digital Divide in Bulletin Board System Communities in the 1980s
Kyle Riismandel // Senior University Lecture // New Jersey Institute of Technology
Moderated by Alana Staiti // Curator of the History of Computers and Information Sciences // National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Andrew Meade McGee // Visiting Assistant Professor, CLIR Fellow // Carnegie Mellon University
Panel C.2: Roundtable: “If I Don’t Write This Down, It Will Be Lost”: Resurfacing and Popularizing the History of the Olivetti ELEA 9003
Franco Filippazzi // Computer Scientist // Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica e il Calcolo [Italian Association for Information Technology and Automatic Calculation]
Elisabetta Mori // Doctoral Candidate // Middlesex University
Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte // Illustrators, Graphic Novelists, Videographers // La Lettura
Simona Casonato // Historian and Visual Documentation Specialist // Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Renato Betti // Professor and former Olivetti employee // Polytechnic University of Milan
Wladimir Zaniewski // Computer Engineer // ISIS Enrico Fermi
Moderated by Jean Kumagai // Senior Editor // IEEE Spectrum
Panel C.3: Exclusion by Design
Beyond Fixing: Algorithmic Identity-making and Facial Detectability Problems of Selfie Software
Yue Zhao // Independent Scholar
The Trojan Horse Machine: One Laptop per Child and Cultures of Disruption
Morgan G. Ames // Assistant Adjunct Professor // University of California, Berkeley
Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk, and Children’s Education with Computers
Elizabeth Petrick // Associate Professor // Rice University
Resistance Is Futile: The Museum Sector’s Struggle Against Digital Obsolescence
Petrina Foti // Adjunct Faculty // Rochester Institute of Technology
Chaired by Ramesh Subramanian // Professor // Quinnipiac University
8:45am | Opening Remarks and SIGCIS Awards
Jason Gallo, Researcher, Society and Technology Policy Institute, SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Operations
Laine Nooney, Assistant Professor, New York University, SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings
9:00am-10:15am | Keynote
What is Software?: Patent Law and the Many Natures of Software
Gerardo Con Díaz, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
10:15am-10:30am | Break
10:30am-12:15pm: Session A
Panel A.1: Collectives, Publics, Politics
Unavoidable Computer Futures and How to Avoid Them: Fear and Politics in Italian Cold War Computer Imaginaries
Ginevra Sanvitale // Doctoral Candidate // Eindhoven University of Technology
Routing Around the Exception: Mesh Networks as Infrastructure Sacer
Rory Solomon // Doctoral Candidate // New York University
Sanctions and Software: The U.S. Embargo on Cuba and Code
Sam Kellogg // Doctoral Student // New York University
The Paper Labyrinth: Cryptographic Imaginaries and Enclave Futures
Sarah Myers West // Postdoctoral Researchers // AI Now Institute, New York University
Chaired by Gili Vidan // Doctoral Candidate // Harvard University
Panel A.2: Making Digital Banks Work: A European Perspective
Reliability, Security, Errors, and Other Evils at the Dawn of Electronic Bank Transfers in the 1970s-1980s
J. Carles Maixé-Altés // Professor // University of A Coruña, Spain
Centralized Computing and Errors in the Financial Sector of East-and-West Germany, 1957-1975
Martin Schmitt // Research Fellow // Technical University Darmstadt
Studying Users of Digital Banking Services in Europe
Florian Vetter // Doctoral Student // University of Luxemoburg
Chaired by Valérie Schafer, Professor // Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg
Panel A.3: Creative Logics
Canonizing Failure: Turing Machines and the Narrative Coupling of Logic and Computing
David Dunning // Doctoral Candidate // Princeton University
The Romantic Agon of the MIDI Protocol
Jessica Feldman // Assistant Professor // American University of Paris
Martin Scherzinger // Associate Professor // New York University
Listening to Computer History: Max Mathews, Laurie Spiegel, and Electronic Sound Synthesis at Bell Labs, 1957-1986
Charles Allan Eppley // Visiting Assistant Professor // Oberlin College
Fragmentation and Discontinuity in Access to the USPTO Full Text and Image Database
Simon Rowberry // Lecturer // University of Stirling
Chaired by Jacob Gaboury // Assistant Professor // University of California, Berkeley
12:30pm–2:00pm | LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm–3:45pm: SESSION B
Panel B.1: Carceral Computing
From Parent to CLNT: The “Faulty Family” and the Technical System of Child Support Enforcement
Marc Aidnoff // Doctoral Candidate // MIT
Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as both Reflection and Refraction of California’s Carceral State
Cierra Robson // Doctoral Student // Harvard University
All Eyez on Me: Carceral Citizen’s Feelings Toward Punishment, Surveillance, and Data Extraction
Kaneesha Johnson // Doctoral Candidate // Harvard University
ShotSpotter, Automated Enrollment of Policed Publics, and the Long History of Police Intelligence Schemes in Chicago’s Black Communities
Sarah T. Hamid // Community Organizer // Prison Tech Research Group
Chaired by Stephanie Dick // Assistant Professor // University of Pennsylvania
Panel B.2: Roundtable: Breaking the Limits of American-Centered Historiography: Gaming the Iron Curtain and From Russia with Code
Ksenia Tatarchenko // Assistant Professor // Singapore Management University
Vincent Antonon Lépinay // Associate Professor // Paris Institute of Political Studies
Zinaida Vasilyeva // Postdoctoral Researcher // Technical University of Munich
Jaroslav Švelch // Assistant Professor // Charles University
Moderated by Gleb J. Albert // Postdoctoral Researcher // University of Zürich
Works in Progress B.4 (Closed Door Peer Review Session)
A Question of Capacity: Academic Experts and the Creation of Centers and Peripheries in International Satellite Governance, 1959-1965
Sarah Nelson // Doctoral Student // Vanderbilt University
Programmers, Clerks, and Children. Exploring Computer Users and the Emergence of ‘Software Psychology’ in the 1970s
Markus Schmid // Doctoral Student // Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Information: Signal Economies, Communicative Materialism, and the Order of Discourse
Bernard Geoghegan // Senior Lecturer // King’s College London
How to Deal with Failure: Performativity, Uncertainty and Goodhart’s Law through Crises in Monetary Policy and Macroeconomics 1979-1995
Susannah Glickman // Doctoral Student // Columbia University
Works-in-Progress is facilitated by Con Díaz // Assistant Professor // University of California, Davis
3:45pm–4:00pm | BREAK
4:00pm–5:45pm: SESSION C
Panel C.1: The Digital as Material: Encounters with Space, Physicality, and Objects in Computer History
Rebuilding the Office around the Mainframe: IBM’s S/360 in Context
Sytze Van Herck // Doctoral Student // University of Luxembourg
Dirt, Silicon, Waste: The Earth as an Archive of Computing
Corinna Kirsch // Lecturer // Stony Brook University
Informal Networks of Awesomeness: Researching the Material Culture of Personal Computing
Kimon Keramidas // Associate Professor // New York University
Living in the Material World: Bridging the Analog/Digital Divide in Bulletin Board System Communities in the 1980s
Kyle Riismandel // Senior University Lecture // New Jersey Institute of Technology
Moderated by Alana Staiti // Curator of the History of Computers and Information Sciences // National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Andrew Meade McGee // Visiting Assistant Professor, CLIR Fellow // Carnegie Mellon University
Panel C.2: Roundtable: “If I Don’t Write This Down, It Will Be Lost”: Resurfacing and Popularizing the History of the Olivetti ELEA 9003
Franco Filippazzi // Computer Scientist // Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica e il Calcolo [Italian Association for Information Technology and Automatic Calculation]
Elisabetta Mori // Doctoral Candidate // Middlesex University
Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte // Illustrators, Graphic Novelists, Videographers // La Lettura
Simona Casonato // Historian and Visual Documentation Specialist // Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Renato Betti // Professor and former Olivetti employee // Polytechnic University of Milan
Wladimir Zaniewski // Computer Engineer // ISIS Enrico Fermi
Moderated by Jean Kumagai // Senior Editor // IEEE Spectrum
Panel C.3: Exclusion by Design
Beyond Fixing: Algorithmic Identity-making and Facial Detectability Problems of Selfie Software
Yue Zhao // Independent Scholar
The Trojan Horse Machine: One Laptop per Child and Cultures of Disruption
Morgan G. Ames // Assistant Adjunct Professor // University of California, Berkeley
Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk, and Children’s Education with Computers
Elizabeth Petrick // Associate Professor // Rice University
Resistance Is Futile: The Museum Sector’s Struggle Against Digital Obsolescence
Petrina Foti // Adjunct Faculty // Rochester Institute of Technology
Chaired by Ramesh Subramanian // Professor // Quinnipiac University
SIGCIS CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Laine Nooney, New York University (SIGCIS Vice-Chair of Meetings)
Andrew Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SIGCIS Chair)
Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania
Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis
Kera Allen, Georgia Institute of Technology (Conference Assistant)
Andrew Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SIGCIS Chair)
Stephanie Dick, University of Pennsylvania
Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis
Kera Allen, Georgia Institute of Technology (Conference Assistant)