Originally posted on July 17, 2019. The ACM History Committee held a successful workshop to stimulate ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to document and preserve their history from May 20th, 2019 to May 21st, 2019. The workshop had broad participation from the following dozen ACM SIGs: ACM SIG on Multimedia (SIGMM) ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) ACM SIG on […]

The ACM History Committee held a successful workshop to stimulate ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to document and preserve their history from May 20th, 2019 to May 21st, 2019. The workshop had broad participation from the following dozen ACM SIGs: ACM SIG on Multimedia (SIGMM) ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) ACM SIG on High […]

The ACM History Committee is sponsoring a SIG Heritage workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into ACM's membership and to others with an active interest in preserving our computer heritage. Applications are invited to 1.5 day workshop to be held 20-21 May 2019 at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. […]

By Mary Whitton and Carol Hutchins A group of 16 individuals, each interested in preserving some aspect of computing history, met May 12 and 13 in Chapel Hill (NC) for the ACM History Committee sponsored workshop on Doing Oral History. In addition to being of diverse age, gender, and national origin, the attendees were interested […]

The ACM History Committee is sponsoring an oral history workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional oral history practices into ACM’s membership and others with an active interest in preserving our computing heritage through the medium of oral histories. Applications are invited to a 1.5 day oral history workshop, to be held Thursday and Friday, […]

The ACM History Committee”s archiving workshop met for two days at the University of Minnesota”s Andersen Library, with Charles Babbage Institute archivist-curator R. Arvid Nelsen leading the sessions. The workshop brought together a diverse group of people from computer science, libraries, archives, national laboratories, and museums. Hands-on exercises, lectures, discussions, tours, and social time contributed […]

The ACM History Committee is sponsoring a two-day archiving workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into ACM”s membership and others with an active interest in preserving our computer heritage. Applications are invited to a two-day archiving workshop, to be held 21-22 May 2014 at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. […]

In this upcoming Friday, November 16, 2012 in Cary, NC, USA, there will be a SIGSOFT event in conjunction with SIGSOFT 2012 / FSE-20: Symposium on Learning from Experiences in Software Engineering (SLESE 2012), co-organized by Barbara G. Ryder (Virginia Tech), Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research), and Tao Xie (North Carolina State University). The goal of […]