Climate change & digitalization - what are the connections? Most often, digitalization is seen as the solution for problems caused by industrial age. But both are more entangled than you might think. History of computing in the Anthropocene www.uni-paderborn.de/en/lehre/leh... #digitalgeschichte

»Die Partitur wurde in die Computersprache übersetzt, das heißt: ein Lochstreifen dirigiert die komplizierte Maschinerie.« www.srf.ch/kultur/der-a...

„Digitalisierung ist Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher, politischer und akademischer Reflexionen. Oft erfolgen diese aus der Perspektive der technologisch hochentwickelten Zentren. Wir wollen die globalen Entwicklungen der Digitalisierung aus der Perspektive des Globalen Südens in den Blick nehmen“

CFP: Umwelten der KI http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-141866 Munich, 06.06.2024-07.06.2024, Liliia Zemnukhova, Helen Piel and Rudolf Seising, Bewerbungsschluss: 29.02.2024

New essay I just published (Jan. 2024). On cypherpunk/Bitcoin religion/cult, fraud/scams, recent developments & hype (ETFs & halving) & placing in longer historical contexts--channeling my best Carl Becker. #BTC #ETH #BlackRockETF #halving #ai #history z.umn.edu/BTCbaptism

Debates in the Digital Humanities is looking for guest editors for its next general volume. Inquiries due 1/31. More info: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/ddh-cal...

Books on one specific year were a thing lately: 1979, by Frank Bösch, 1977 by Philipp Sarasin, Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937. Eventually, we have one for the history of computing: William Aspray’s 1920 focusing on the history of information in one particular year in the US #digitalgeschichte

Tune in to C-SPAN today at 4:35 PM ET for the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on historical perspectives on AI. Moderator Matthew L. Jones & Janet Abbate, Matthew Connelly, & @justcodeculture.bsky.social placed the current conversations on AI into historical context. www.c-span.org/video/?53128...

The Web and the historian: in my seminar introduction to digital history at Paderborn University, I’m discussing the possibilities of the web both as source & as medium for science comm. We’re reading texts by Mareike König on blogging and by Nils Brügger on Web Source critique #teachingDH

Today we celebrate the completion of our IGGI project on the history of #AI in West Germany. Great keynote by Stephanie Dick! Now Helen Piel and Rudi Seising present approaches, methods and results in the hallowed halls of the Deutsches Museum! #histtech #AIhistory

And now the team entered the stage: impressive results of 4 years of research on history of AI! Some early findings & an insight into how to do research on that. All the best for the books! @dinp.bsky.social, Helen Piel, Rudi Seising, Jakob Tschandl & Florian Müller #Digitalgeschichte

„Castles in the Sky”: Reflections on the Mechanical Inexhaustibility of Mathematics, Keynote by @mysdick.bsky.social So impressive! MACSYMA as an early expert system in automated mathematics. She made a convincing argument basing on Mahoney's how the world got into computer: Math was transformed!

Now starting: The final conference of the wonderful project on the "History of AI in Germany" (IGGI: Ingenieure des Geistes – Geistesingenieure) at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Looking back to four years of research on #historyofcomputing #Digitalgeschichte @dinp.bsky.social #historyoftechnology

Morgen beginnt der Workshop „Eigensinnige Objekte“ im SFB1567. Die Teilnehmenden loten aus, wie sich durch den Umgang mit zunehmend eigensinnigen Objekten die Mensch-Technik-Beziehung verändert. Organisiert wird der Workshop von Teilprojekt C02 „Virtuelle Körper“.

50 years since Brian Randell’s “the origins of digital computers”. A seminal work of the #historyofcomputing and technology. Not only the history of digitalization is already going on since a while but also its historiography. #digitalgeschichte blog.hnf.de/die-urspruen...

BEHIND THE FACADE OF POTSDAM Our international group was invited today by Rechenzentrum Potsdam and ZZF Potsdam on a historic tour organised by me. The highlight was a view from the roof of the old data center - today a vibrant place of art and culture. www.instagram.com/p/Cz6gd58M6W... #digineq

Tim Schinschick asking for the regional history of computing in education in Baden-Württemberg: was it a front runner, or just as the others? How did computer education change? Schinschick citing @maltethiessen.bsky.social and his programmatic article on a regional history of computing. #digineq

DIGITAL INEQUALITIES - historicising the changes in the digital age. Do we need #DH for writing about #historyofcomputing? I would say definitively yes! Today starts the workshop of the ZZF project #digineq Looking forward to interesting talks about schools, women and migration/borders in Germany

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Call for Papers für die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (2.-4.5.2024 in Berlin) zum Thema „Explorationstechnik und extreme Umwelten“ Frist für die Einreichung von Vorschlägen für Einzelbeiträge oder Sektionen : 14.1.2024 #histtech #envhist #history

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

Joseph Weizenbaum and left wing criticism of capitalism, war, bureaucracy in Berlin in 1979/80 - one other legacy of the prominent AI scientist @ultrabeige.bsky.social hold an amazing talk about a this certain scene #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing #histscitech @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Honghong Tinn shares her thoughts on the “Global Histories of Electronics” panel and asks the audience if they have any questions for the speakers… #SHOT2023 ⚙️

Schirvar: Although there were solid economic reasons for tribes to invest in electronics manufacturing, firms like Cherokee Nation Industries (CNI) were not typical business ventures. Most notably, indigenous leaders tended to prioritize employment over profit. #SHOT2023 ⚙️

Published today: I created a dataset on the sales and distribution of 19 (German) gaming magazines 1980-2000 and published it together with an accompanying blogpost (including some rough findings) on the Confoederatio Ludens research blog! 🥳 #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/1228

📢 Join our team! We have an opening for a *Research Software Engineer* at our #MethodsInnovationLab (NFDI4memory), at HU Berlin. The position is for a full-time scientific researcher (E13, 100% - flexible) and will initially be until 02/2028. Details: dhistory.hypotheses.org/6211 (DE & EN).

Please spread the word! 🐢MPIWG Dept🐢"Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow with experience in long-term or deep-time studies of Animal-Plant-Human interactions, spanning ancient history to the age of encounter and the recent past🐢 #HistSci www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/job-position...

the struggle is real

Peripheral? About the structural changes in regional settings: start to a conference on contemporary regional history at the HNF in #paderborn What an amazing location at the former headquarter of the Nixdorf Computer company. #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing

Looking forward to @Jessica Marie Johnson's talk “Race, Imagination, and Black Digital Practice on Social Media” and learning more about #blackdigitalpractice and #communityengagement: ou.edu/disc/news-ev... #socialmediastudies #digitalblackstudies #blackcodestudies

What better way to start than with an interruption? #LivingHistory #HistoryofComputing #HisTech

ERROR! About non-functioning and mistakes in digital societies. Check out the program of this semesters lecture series by Martina Heßler at TU Darmstadt! #digitalgeschichte #historiesofcomputing

CFP: Spielgeschichte(n) – Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-139451 Innsbruck, 11.04.2024-13.04.2024, Forschungsgruppe Game Studies, Bewerbungsschluss: 11.12.2023

good news yall the microsoft data storage tech is going to store data for 10,000 years, just like CDs used to before we figured out they don't www.tomshardware.com/news/microso...

Out now! The CFP for the GHI Washington's next digital history/digital humanities conference, “Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices,” with C2DH, (RRCHNM), and DIJ Tokyo taking place in March 2024 in Luxembourg. Abstracts due December 1: ghi-dc.org/events/event...

„Wert/Value/Valeur“ – Widerstreit zwischen Moral und Preis So lautet der Titel der Ringvorlesung / Citizen Lecture, die ab dem 18.10. mittwochs um 18:05 Uhr statfindet. Heute mit Petra Gehring zu dem Thema "Werte zur Einführung". #CitizenLecture #TUDarmstadt #Werte #efin&demokratie

Huge honor to be a part of this new case study looking at climate impact of videogame development. Thanks Ben Abraham and the @gutefabrik.bsky.social team for all this work 👇🏻 gutefabrik.com/climate-repo...

Floppy disk covers as cultural symbols: what a nice find! #digitalgeschichte

Interesting source and an example for private engagement to get access to historical documents deemed as secret by the state. The case itself is a bit more to differentiate. Sparkassen are missing in this document; The customer data gathered was not used further in digital format, but renewed; …

“It’s mobile, emerges with every context” - In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Pujita Guha speaks for the Forest Curriculum, an ever-evolving platform for conversations about forests, Indigeneity, and politics in South and Southeast Asia atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/puj...

Just joined. Here is a book just out in July 2023. It is a 4th edition, a major rev. over 3rd w/ 3 new chapters & many updates on the digital world. Thrilled to co-author it w/ my colleagues Honghong Tinn, Gerardo Con Diaz, M. Campbell-Kelly, & Bill Aspray. z.umn.edu/Computer4E

Or poisoning it further/faster. One of the many obvious risks & realities of LLMs/bots. What I like is it discusses an accidental experiment by web scholar Dr. Daniel Griffin--his blog, Claude Shannon's information theory, & misinformation/false history on search! www.wired.com/story/fast-f...

Wir fordern in unserer Petition den Kreis Gütersloh auf, die Gedenkstätte #stalag326 (VI K) Senne dauerhaft finanziell grundabzusichern. Es ermöglicht die Vermittlung freiheitlich-demokratischer Werte in #Ostwestfalen. Unterschreiben und Teilen erwünscht! www.change.org/p/sichert-di...

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Last touches on this semesters‘ classes starting mid-October. One is an essay-based seminar on „Hidden Figures“, women in computer history, and the other is an ANT-Research seminar on Cryptobros and their networks. Love to have these two back-to-back.

Jetzt, wo twitter X heißt, könnte man das hier doch einfach auch twitter nennen.

Always pay attention to the right work-sheep balance!

Hello World! The sky is blue here - let’s keep it like that.