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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m pleased to share that <i>Histories of Computing in Asia</i> is out from Springer.
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The historiography of computing in India</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other regional and international perspectives</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This volume began with the IFIP WG 9.7 Workshop on the History of Computing, which I organized in Phuket, Thailand, in September 2024.
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hope the collection will be useful to colleagues interested in broadening the geography, sources, and methods of computing history. I
</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">am grateful to the authors and peer reviewers whose expertise made this volume possible. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Working Group has always benefited from the synergies among
</span>historians, archivists, cultural studies scholars, and technical professionals.
<span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One thing I especially wanted to do was make the contributors more visible, so I created an online companion page with the paper titles and biographical information:
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://chrisleslie.info/contributors/">https://chrisleslie.info/contributors/</a></span></div>
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With this work completed, I have turned over the reins of the working group to Kishor Satpathy. We are aiming for an upcoming workshop in Kolkata, India. More details will follow in due course.</div>
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Bibliographic information: <i>Histories of Computing in Asia.</i> IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT), vol. 739. Cham: Springer, 2026. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0. Available from Springer:
<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0</a></div>
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