[Air-l] CONF: The New Web Of History

[Karim R. Lakhani]

This conference may be of interest to some on our list.

THE NEW WEB OF HISTORY
A CONFERENCE ABOUT CRAFTING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON-LINE
MARCH 28 AND 29, 2003
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Dear Colleagues,

The Dibner/Sloan History of Recent Science and Technology Project (HRST)
and the Dibner Institute invite you to a conference on the novel
opportunities and challenges that the World Wide Web presents for
historians of science and technology. The conference has two goals:
first, to provide a snapshot of some of the most original projects that
use the Web to produce, present and disseminate scholarly and educational
materials; and second, to examine critically the challenges as well as the
opportunities that such projects face.

The conference will be held on March 28th and 29th in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. We plan three sessions, each of which includes
presentations concerning recent and on-going projects: New Methods, about
new tools and approaches for doing history on line; New Products, about
the use of new media and the production of content; and New Challenges
about issues faced by researchers, academia, and publishers. Each day will
conclude with a panel of historians, administrators and program officers
offering responses, reflections, and discussing future prospects.  The
confirmed speakers and commentators so far include:

Babak Ashrafi, HRST and MIT
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, HRST and Paris X University
Jed Z. Buchwald, HRST and CalTech
Daniel Cohen, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason
University
Gregory Crane, The Perseus Project, Tufts University
Michael Cusumano, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
Slava Gerovitch, HRST and MIT
Gerd Grassoff, University of Berne, Switzerland
Stephen M. Griffin, Directorate for Computer and Information Science
and Engineering, National Science Foundation
Rob Iliffe, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine
Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
Timothy Lenoir, HRST and Stanford University
David A. Mindell, HRST and MIT
Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College
London
Roy Rosenzweig, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason
University
Zick Rubin, Copyright Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts
Henning Schmidgen, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Harvey Shoolman, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine
George E. Smith, Dibner Institute and Tufts University
Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton University
Marney Smyth, MIT Press
James Sparrow, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason
University
John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia
Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics
Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University

We hope that you will join us for what promises to be an interesting
examination of new possibilities for our discipline.

This conference is organized the History of Recent Science and Technology
Project [http://hrst.mit.edu] and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation and the Dibner Fund.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND, PLEASE CONTACT CARLA
CHRISFELD AT CARLAC at MIT.EDU FOR 617-253-8721.

SPACE IS LIMITED