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Final CFP: International Communities of Invention and Innovation (25-28 May 2016)

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    • March 30, 2016 at 10:38 pm #1751
      Chris Leslie
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      Dear Colleagues,

      I am hoping that you might consider participating in our upcoming
      conference and also that you might know someone in the area who is working
      on one of these themes. Please circulate as appropriate.

      Chris Leslie

      —–

      CFP: International Communities of Invention and Innovation (25-28 May 2016)

      This next meeting of IFIP Working Group 9.7 will gather historians and
      other professionals with an interest in this historical context for
      computers and computer networks. We seek to round out the program of papers
      from IFIP members with participants from the academic and professional
      community around New York City.

      At the conference, we hope to blur the dichotomy between core and periphery
      and complicate simplistic notions of linear technological progress. Analog
      and digital computers were developed in the context of an international
      scientific community, and the first computer networks were built in an age
      of growing interconnectivity between nations. 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
      preexisting 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 the development of the Internet, to be
      sure, but also it will provide us with a better understanding of how better
      to sponsor invention and innovation in the future.

      In accordance with this theme, we seek papers related to internationalism
      in the history of computers and computer networks. For example:

      – communities where analog computers were developed
      – communication about and competition for early devices
      – trade and treaties supporting computers and networks
      – antecedents (Wells’s World Brain) and visions (Human-Nets’s WorldNet)
      – organizations like IFIP with a mission to promote collaboration
      – innovations brought in from the supposed periphery
      – individuals who championed connections between nations
      – communication and data networks before the Internet
      – development and diffusion of TCP/IP
      – connectivity efforts before NSFnet
      – resistance to and success of the WorldWideWeb
      – failed or thwarted efforts to develop networks or industries
      – long trajectories of digital divides
      – case studies revealing ethical considerations
      – historiography of internationalism in computing

      The conference will be hosted at New York University’s Tandon School of
      Engineering in MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York 11201. MetroTech
      Center, about 20 minutes away by subway from NYU’s Greenwich Village
      location, is located in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn and within walking
      distance of the Brooklyn Bridge as well as the iconic neighborhoods of
      DUMBO, Fort Greene, and Brooklyn Heights.

      As part of the conference program, we are arranging tours for those with an
      interest in the history of computing. These will include sites like Bell
      Labs, Google’s New York headquarters, and possibly IBM Watson.

      It is hoped that the conference will be of interest of a broad range of
      people with an interest in computing and computer networks, including
      academic scholars and graduate students, but also those who are not
      historians but have a professional or technical interest in computing. For
      consideration, please submit a title, an abstract of 300-500 words, and
      your institutional affiliation before April 15 by email (
      wg9.7conference@nyu.edu). Inquires are welcome in advance of your
      submission.

      More information is available on the conference website:
      http://wp.nyu.edu/ifip_wg97/

      —
      Christopher S. Leslie, Ph.D.
      Co-Director and Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies
      Faculty Fellow in Residence for Othmer Hall and Clark Street
      Vice Chair, IFIP History of Computing Working Group 9.7

      NYU Tandon School of Engineering
      5 MetroTech Center, LC 131
      Brooklyn, NY 11201
      (646) 997-3130

      —
      Christopher S. Leslie, Ph.D.
      Co-Director and Lecturer, Science and Technology Studies
      Faculty Fellow in Residence for Othmer Hall and Clark Street
      Vice Chair, IFIP History of Computing Working Group 9.7

      NYU Tandon School of Engineering
      5 MetroTech Center, LC 131
      Brooklyn, NY 11201
      (646) 997-3130

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