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The SIGCIS “Michael Mahoney And The Histories of Computing(s)” workshop will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on Sunday, October 18, 2009. Please register with SHOT if you have not already done so. The costs of the workshop are included in the standard SHOT registration. If you are attending just the SIGCIS workshop and not any other part of the SHOT meeting there is a $30.00 registration fee, payable to SHOT.

Due to the large quantity of quality submissions we anticipate a full and exciting day. Therefore time limits on papers will be strictly enforced. Traditional paper presenters should plan to speak for 20 minutes and address questions from the SIGCIS community for 5-10 minutes. Participants in the dissertation and works-in-progress workshops will each have 5 to 10 minutes to introduce the material, leaving the bulk of time available for discussion. Dissertation and works-in-progress participants will also need to supply the draft for discussion by October 1, 2009 for inclusion in the electronic program for the workshop.

Details about lunch and dinner plans will be posted here when they become available.

Conference Papers

• Goodwin and Johnson, DEC: The mistakes that led to its downfall
• Henriksson, A brief history of the stack
• Hsu, Connections between the Software Crisis and Object-Oriented Programming
• McDonald, The Computer Democracy: The Politics of the Computer-Communications Infrastructure from the Computer Utility to the Internet
• Turdean, Betting on Computers: Digital Technologies and the Rise of the Casino Industry (1950-2000)
• Slayton, The Contrary Networking of Software Engineering