@justcode
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
I am so grateful and honoured to receive this fellowship! Thanks to CBI for helping me get access to the materials needed during such a volatile period. I wish my research on computation and containment would somehow contribute to the discussion on historical and political alternatives.
We at CBI are delighted to announce Simon Fraser University School of Comm. ABD Jiaqi Wen is the incoming CBI Tomash Fellow!!! Read about her & her creative & insightful (interdisciplinary) historical research in the article linked below! #histtech #histsci
cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/jia...
2 Days Left! Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due F. 28th '26 The ACM History Committee plans to support up to five research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Graduate students through senior researchers eligible. #histsci
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2 Days Left! Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due F. 28th '26 The ACM History Committee plans to support up to five research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Graduate students through senior researchers eligible. #histsci
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The PARAM Pravega supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (image by Andra Sonia Petrutiu). Glass enclosed raised floor computer room with double glass door entrance.
New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India." #histsci #supercomputing #india #history
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
2 Days Left! Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due F. 28th '26 The ACM History Committee plans to support up to five research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. #histtech #histsci #sts
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CBI Research Fellow Cornell's Rebecca Slayton, Past CBI Tomash Fellows @babintsevak.bsky.social & Aaron Mendon-Plasek, & Vanderbilt's Sarah Igo are giving an @historians.org Congressional Briefing on AI, security & privacy. F. 27th 9am E.
#histtech #ai #history
www.historians.org/event/histor...
Flyer with portrait photo of Sam Franz for his CBI Tomash Lecture
Join us for UPenn ABD & CBI Tomash Fellow @samfranz.bsky.social for the Tomash Fellow Lecture. Sam's talk "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945-1990." March 10th 1pm C. Register today (free) at link below. #Histtech #Capitalism
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Compuseum's (@American Helicopter Museum in Philly metro & online for free) ENIAC at 80 Event. Feb 15 '26 2 to 4pm Eastern. Historians Kathy Kleiman, Paul Ceruzzi, & I; & daughters & sons of John Mauchly, J. Pres. Eckert, Jean Bartik; are speaking. #histsci
www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-detail...
Today!! At 1pm Central!
I've got a new article out with @theconversation.com, which debunks common myths about water resistance and consumer technologies - building on my new book, License to Spill! theconversation.com/debunking-5-...
Portrait photo of Indiana U. Prof. Rachel Plotnick in front of blurred background setting of grass and trees.
Thrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow @rachelplotnick.bsky.social entitled, "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.
Via Zoom #histsci #histtech
Register:
umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Unseen Signals exhibit photo
Tremendous Twin Cities Pavek Museum of Electronic Communication opening gala/event this evening for the visiting IEEE exhibit "Unseen Signals" on E. Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio!! #histtech
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
Cover of the book The Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work, teal with white lettering
New Interfaces article by CBI Senior Research Fellow William Aspray & Union College Prof. Emeritus David Hemmendinger "Using Reference Works to Study the Intellectual and Cultural History of Computing." It reflects on their new book pictured below #histsci
Interfaces:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
I haven't had words to capture what i've been feeling, so i've just been reading others' words. The Boss reminds: just say the names and describe the acts of the people who are evil. that's enough for now. Get Noem and Miller and anyone who was even close to this out of power. ICE out now.
Very important insights contained within. Please read in its entirety.
www.404media.co/police-told-...
Portrait photo of Indiana U. Prof. Rachel Plotnick in front of blurred background setting of grass and trees.
Thrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow @rachelplotnick.bsky.social entitled, "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.
Via Zoom #histsci #histtech
Register:
umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
👇👇!!
Yet another atrocious act by ICE locally in the Twin Cities' metro.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Book cover with watercolor or watercolor like red, blue, green and yellow design of two spheres on a surface but oriented horizontally.
New Interfaces essay! Toni Weller et al.'s rich & insightful historiographical essay on information history...
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
"Reflections on The Routledge Handbook on Information History." Framing the Field: Reflections on The Routledge Handbook of Information History" #HistSci
Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .
Cover of Automation by Design special issue of IEEE Annals. The image is the US Census' FOSDIC installation with three professionals at a desk and two behind by the mainframe computer in the background. B&W image.
Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
Deadline 1/15/2026 The Tomash Fellowship in History of IT
CBI for Computing, Information & Culture
No residency requirement. Beyond the stipend...access to our vast archives, knoweledgeable staff, talented
& diverse research fellows, mentoring resources.... #histsci
cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-a...
In this just published article "Blockchain 2026..." in Blockchain & Society, I draw on history to inform on technology, hype, & inequalities, as well as underlying politics, power, & corruption. #histsci
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He concentrated on a very different type of history than my focus on the social history of 20th and 21st information technology... He was a Renaissance and Reformation historian.
Congrats on the Award and on this super important topic in DH!! (BTW-My first UNL connection on here I think. My father was a historian and later a central administrator there. I grew up in Lincoln before moving to Minnesota).
Cover of Automation by Design special issue of IEEE Annals. The image is the US Census' FOSDIC installation with three professionals at a desk and two behind by the mainframe computer in the background. B&W image.
Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
Book cover with watercolor or watercolor like red, blue, green and yellow design of two spheres on a surface but oriented horizontally.
New Interfaces essay! Toni Weller et al.'s rich & insightful historiographical essay on information history...
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
"Reflections on The Routledge Handbook on Information History." Framing the Field: Reflections on The Routledge Handbook of Information History" #HistSci
