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Designing and Using NSF's FastLane: Lessons from History for Cyberinfrastructure

Monday, February 07, 2011 Presenter: Thomas J. Misa Affiliation: University of Minnesota, Charles Babbage Institute Website: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/misa.html Time: 11:15 - 12:15 Location: Keller...

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2011-2012 Tomash Fellowship & Norberg Travel Grants Awarded!

CBI is happy to present Andrew McGee as our 2011-2012 Erwin & Adelle Tomash Fellow. Andrew is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and his project, entitled "Mainframing America:...

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The IEEE Life Members' Prize

The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the...

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Misa Giving a Talk at U of M-Rochester

Next Tuesday, June 14, from 7:00-8:30pm, CBI director Tom Misa will be giving a talk on IBM-Rochester at the University of Minnesota's Rochester campus. If you are in the Rochester region, please...

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Congratulations to ACM History Committee Fellowship Winners!

Congratulations to the three winners of 2011 ACM History Committee Fellowships: Inna Kouper (Indiana University--Bloomington) for a project on "History of ACM SIGWEB as a framework for a conceptual...

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2011-12 Andersen Library Research Scholars Program

The application deadline for the 2011-12 Andersen Library Research Scholars travel fellowship is September 30, 2011. Feel free to email me for more information or application details. Fellowship...

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Staffing changes

Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know that I will, sadly, be leaving CBI after this week. It has been a great pleasure working here, and I will very much miss the people and the collections. Taking...

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CBI Oral Histories Temporarily Unavailable

Oops! CBI Oral History database is currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience but our oral history database is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. We are working to make...

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Review of Misa's Gender Codes

Check out this great review, How Computing Became a Man's World, of Misa's book Gender Codes in the journal Sex Roles. The IEEE Computer Society is singled out as having "performed a real service with...

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CBI Archives will provide limited services in January

The Department of Archives and Special Collections will be providing limited service the first week of January 2012. January 3-6 ASC will not be registering new researchers or pulling any materials for...

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Applications due January 17th for 2012 Norberg Travel Grants!

The Arthur L. Norberg Travel Fund provides short-term grants-in-aid to help scholars with travel expenses to use archival collections at the Charles Babbage Institute. Each year we plan to award two...

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Applications for Tomash Fellowship due January 17th!

The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation...

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Four 2012 Norberg Travel Grants Awarded!

A strong pool of candidates applied for the Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grant this year, resulting in an exceptional four awards! Congratulations to Mara Mills an assistant professor of Media, Culture,...

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Ksenia Tatarchenko Awarded 2012-2013 Tomash Fellowship

Ksenia Tatarchenko doctoral candidate at Princeton University has been named the 2013-2013 Erwin & Adelle Tomash Fellow. Ksenia's project entitled "A House with the Window to the West: The...

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The IEEE Life Members' Prize

The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the...

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