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Preliminary Program (31 May 2015) ICOHTEC 2015, Tel Aviv 1 Preliminary Program ICOHTEC & HISTELCON 2015 Tel Aviv (31 May 2015) Sunday, 16 th August 2015 .......................................................................................... 4 18.1521.00 ............................................................................................................ 4 Opening Ceremony & Kranzberg Lecture & Reception ....................................... 4 Kranzberg Lecture & Reception .......................................................................... 4 Monday, 17 th August 2015 .......................................................................................... 4 09.3011.00 ............................................................................................................ 4 A. Session: Digitalization and Its Cultural Impact on Humans ........................ 4 B. Session: Encoding and Decoding the Communication of Technological Invention .............................................................................................................. 4 C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of Military Technology (1) ........................................................................................ 4 11.0011.30: Coffee Break ..................................................................................... 5 11.3013.00 ............................................................................................................ 5 A. Session: Environment: Climate Change and the Communication of Information .......................................................................................................... 5 B. Session: Methods for Increasing Production and Consumption ................. 5 C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of Military Technology (2) ........................................................................................ 5 D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (1) ........................... 5 13.0014.30: Lunch Break ...................................................................................... 6 14.3016.00 ............................................................................................................ 6 A. Plenary Session: Alternative Concepts of Mobility ..................................... 6 16.0016.30: Coffee Break ..................................................................................... 6 16.3018.00 ............................................................................................................ 6 A. Session: National Security, Databases, and Privacy .................................. 6 B. Session: Knowledge, Creativity & Engineering .......................................... 6 C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of Military Technology (3) ........................................................................................ 7 D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (2) ........................... 7

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    Preliminary Program

    ICOHTEC & HISTELCON 2015

    Tel Aviv

    (31 May 2015)

    Sunday, 16th August 2015 .......................................................................................... 4

    18.15–21.00 ............................................................................................................ 4

    Opening Ceremony & Kranzberg Lecture & Reception ....................................... 4

    Kranzberg Lecture & Reception .......................................................................... 4

    Monday, 17th August 2015 .......................................................................................... 4

    09.30–11.00 ............................................................................................................ 4

    A. Session: Digitalization and Its Cultural Impact on Humans ........................ 4

    B. Session: Encoding and Decoding – the Communication of Technological

    Invention .............................................................................................................. 4

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (1) ........................................................................................ 4

    11.00–11.30: Coffee Break ..................................................................................... 5

    11.30–13.00 ............................................................................................................ 5

    A. Session: Environment: Climate Change and the Communication of

    Information .......................................................................................................... 5

    B. Session: Methods for Increasing Production and Consumption ................. 5

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (2) ........................................................................................ 5

    D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the

    Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (1) ........................... 5

    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break ...................................................................................... 6

    14.30–16.00 ............................................................................................................ 6

    A. Plenary Session: Alternative Concepts of Mobility ..................................... 6

    16.00–16.30: Coffee Break ..................................................................................... 6

    16.30–18.00 ............................................................................................................ 6

    A. Session: National Security, Databases, and Privacy .................................. 6

    B. Session: Knowledge, Creativity & Engineering .......................................... 6

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (3) ........................................................................................ 7

    D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the

    Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (2) ........................... 7

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    Tuesday, 18th August 2015 ......................................................................................... 8

    09.30–11.00 ............................................................................................................ 8

    A. Session: The Quest for Energy – Policy, Production, and Measuring ........ 8

    B. Session: Different Angles on Mobility in Modernity .................................... 8

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (4) ........................................................................................ 8

    D. Session: Labour-Power: Shifting Perspectives ........................................... 8

    E. Regional History Studies I—Japan (HISTELCON) ..................................... 9

    11.00-11.30: Coffee Break ...................................................................................... 9

    11.30–13.00 ............................................................................................................ 9

    A. Plenary Session: Computer Meets Human ................................................ 9

    13.00–14.00: Lunch Break ...................................................................................... 9

    14.00–19.00 ............................................................................................................ 9

    Tour ..................................................................................................................... 9

    Wednesday, 19th August 2015 .................................................................................. 10

    09.30–11.00 .......................................................................................................... 10

    A. Keynote Lecture ....................................................................................... 10

    11.00–11.30: Coffee Break ................................................................................... 10

    11.30–13.00 .......................................................................................................... 10

    A. Session: Designs on Medical Technology and Its Application .................. 10

    B. Session: Different Approaches to Innovation ........................................... 10

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (5) ...................................................................................... 11

    D. Session: Making Music, Creating New Sounds ........................................ 11

    E. Regional Studies II —Europe (HISTELCON) ........................................... 11

    F. Human Factors in the History of Technology (HISTELCON) .................... 11

    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break .................................................................................... 12

    14.30–16.00 .......................................................................................................... 12

    A. Session: Structured Invention and Structuring Innovation ........................ 12

    B. Session: Innovation in the Wake of War ................................................... 12

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (6) ...................................................................................... 12

    D. Session: High Technology in Long-Term Perspective and Cultural Practice

    – Lessons from the History of Infrastructure ...................................................... 13

    E. History of Computing and Related Components (HISTELCON) .............. 13

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    F. History of Telecom (HISTELCON) ........................................................... 13

    16.00–16.30: Coffee Break ................................................................................... 13

    16.30–18.30 .......................................................................................................... 13

    Prize Winners’ Sessions .................................................................................... 13

    G. Daumas Prize Winner’s Session .............................................................. 13

    20.00–22.00 .......................................................................................................... 14

    Jazz Night .......................................................................................................... 14

    Thursday, 20th August 2015 ...................................................................................... 15

    09.15–11.00 .......................................................................................................... 15

    A. Session: Universality in Computational Theory ........................................ 15

    B. Session: Mathematics, Science-Fiction and Technology ......................... 15

    C. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015: The

    Origins (HISTELCON) ....................................................................................... 15

    11.00–11.15: Coffee Break ................................................................................... 15

    11.15–13.00 .......................................................................................................... 16

    A. Session: Presence and Evolution of Air Pollution Damage on Vegetation in

    the Valley of Mexico: Historical Summary ......................................................... 16

    B. Session: Conceptualizing Modernity in Architecture ................................ 16

    C. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015: The

    Origins: Achievements (HISTELCON) ............................................................... 16

    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break .................................................................................... 17

    14.30–17.00 .......................................................................................................... 17

    A. ICOHTEC General Assembly ................................................................... 17

    B. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015:

    Homage to Founders – Presentation of Certificates and Lectures of Recipients

    (HISTELCON) ................................................................................................... 17

    18.30–19.30 .......................................................................................................... 17

    Cocktail Offered by IEEE Israel Section ............................................................ 17

    20.00–22.00 .......................................................................................................... 17

    Gala Dinner ....................................................................................................... 17

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    Sunday, 16th August 2015

    18.15–21.00

    Opening Ceremony & Kranzberg Lecture & Reception

    Kranzberg Lecture & Reception

    - Robert Fox (University of Oxford): Mentality or Circumstance? The Dilemmas of

    Science-Based Industry in France, 1870–1920

    Monday, 17th August 2015

    09.30–11.00

    A. Session: Digitalization and Its Cultural Impact on Humans

    - Galit Wellner (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): The Cellular Age: History of

    the Cellphone as a Memory Prosthesis

    - Mathias Mutz (RWTH Aachen University): The Computer as Time Machine.

    Changing Concepts of the Computer and its Effect on Time-Keeping Since the

    1960s

    - Olga Vyacheslavovna Sergeyeva (Russian Academy of Science): Poeticization vs

    Demonization: Images of Computer Programmer and Computer Technology in

    the Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema

    B. Session: Encoding and Decoding – the Communication of Technological

    Invention

    - Ido Ramati (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Coding Hebrew: Archaeology

    of Hebrew Mores Code

    - Elena Helerea / Dănuț Puiu Serban (Transilvania University of Brasov): Dragomir

    Hurmuzescu (1865-1954) – Promoter of High-Communication Technique in

    Romania

    - Omer Keynan (Bar-Ilan University/ Tel Aviv University): Therapeutic Dimension in

    Virtual Discourse

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (1)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - Sandy Kuttler (Independent scholar, Israel) / Hadas Marcus (Tel Aviv University):

    The Sling: An Overlooked “Poor Man’s Weapon”

    - David Zimmerman (University of Vancouver): Technological Determinism and

    Military History: A Post-Industrial Revolution Perspective

    - Seymour E. Goodman (Georgia Tech): Absorbing Information Technologies into

    the Field Armies of the American Civil War

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    11.00–11.30: Coffee Break

    11.30–13.00

    A. Session: Environment: Climate Change and the Communication of

    Information

    - Anthony Nicholas Stranges (Texas A&M): Guy Callendar and Gilbert Plass,

    Pioneering Proponents of Global Warming

    - Petter Wulff (Swedish Defence Research Agency): Climate Change – a Role for

    History?

    - Hadas Marcus (Tel Aviv University): Ecocinema: Portraying Technological

    Encroachment and Alienation from Nature

    B. Session: Methods for Increasing Production and Consumption

    - Dick van Lente (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The Philips Electronics

    Company as a Popularizer of High Tech

    - Timo Myllyntaus (University of Turku): Learning by Experience: Reconsidering the

    Horndal Effect on Productivity

    - Wolfgang König (TU Berlin): On the Co-Construction of Technology and Culture:

    The Condom’s Difficult Path to Become a High-Tech Product

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (2)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - William Dean (US Air Command and Staff College, Alabama): Technology and

    French Colonial Warfare 1871-1914

    - Ciro Paoletti (Italian Commission of Military History): A Problem of Weight and

    Speed: Italian Bombing from Airships to Airplanes, 1911–1916

    - Esat Arslan (Cag University, Turkey): The Military Foundation of Turkish Airlines

    D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the

    Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (1)

    Organizer: Eldar Movsumzade (Ufa State Petroleum Technological University)

    - Eldar Movsumzade / Poletaeva Olga / Borodin Artem / Latypova Dinara (Ufa

    State Petroleum Technological University): The Influence of the Political and

    Economic Situation on the Development of Alternative Source of Hydrocarbons

    - Mastobaev Boris / Bahtizin Ramil' (Ufa State Petroleum Technical University):

    Development of Techniques and Technologies of Ensuring Stable Operation of

    Oil Pipelines

    - Teregulov Rim / Dorozhkin Vsevolod (Ufa State Petroleum Technical University):

    Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Market in the Perspective of the Present and Future

    World Gas Supply

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    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break

    14.30–16.00

    A. Plenary Session: Alternative Concepts of Mobility

    - Alexander Konrad (Technical University of Berlin): Passengers’ Influence on

    London’s and Berlin’s Urban Transit Systems Around 1900

    - Maria Elvira Callapez (CIUHCT-FCUL) / Maria Luisa Sousa (CIUHCT-FCT/UNL-

    NOVA): Disciplining the Poor’s Mobilities during Portuguese Dictatorship:

    Discourses on Professional Drivers and on Pedestrians (1930s–1950s)

    - Christopher Neumaier (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam): At the

    Crossroads: the Cultural Perception of Cars and its U-Turn in Europe and the

    USA, 1970s–1980s

    16.00–16.30: Coffee Break

    16.30–18.00

    A. Session: National Security, Databases, and Privacy

    - Alla Lytvynko (NAS of Ukraine): Historic Experience of Scientists and Engineers

    from the National Academy of Science of Ukraine in the Sphere of National

    Security

    - Boaz Miller / Stav Kaufman / Ehud Lamm (The Hebrew University of

    Jerusalem/Bar Ilan University): From Market-Basket Analysis to Individual

    Profiling: Big Data, Association Rules, and Privacy, 1989–2001

    B. Session: Knowledge, Creativity & Engineering

    - Hans Joachim Braun (Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg): Modeling Invention:

    Cognitive Science, Invention, and Engineering Design

    - Avner Molcho Molcho (NYU): Israel’s Shift Towards Knowledge-Based Industries

    - Shaul Katzir (Tel-Aviv University): Differences Between Commercial and

    Academic Drawings in Research Notebooks

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    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (3)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - Anna Turza (University of Rzeszow, Poland): For the Country, for Their Rights:

    Polish Women in Military Training before World War Two

    - Francesco Gerali (University of Western Australia): Squeezing Coal to Fill the

    Tank. The German Scientific Endeavor for Synthetic Fuel Production between the

    Two Wars

    - Yoel Bergman (Associate Researcher at the Cohn Institute, Tel-Aviv

    University/Independent Scholar): Closing US Gaps in Propellant Production for

    Rockets, at the Beginning of WWII

    D. Session: Development of Oil and Gas Technologies for Improving the

    Economic and Political Situation of Countries and Regions (2)

    Organizer: Eldar Movsumzade (Ufa State Petroleum Technological University)

    - Revel-Muroz Pavel (JSC «TRANSNEFT»): Development of Energy Saving

    Technologies in Oil Pipeline Transportation

    - Belyaeva Albina (Bashkir State Agrarian University): European Experience of

    Processing of Acid Tars to the Secondary Fuel

    - Adigozalova Vafa / Mamedyarova Kamila / Polyakova Lyudmila (Azerbaijan State

    Academy of Physical Culture and Sport): Unique Ancient Oil from Azerbaijan

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    Tuesday, 18th August 2015

    09.30–11.00

    A. Session: The Quest for Energy – Policy, Production, and Measuring

    - Robert Belot (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard): The Atom as a

    Utopia and a Theophany for France After the Second World War

    - Vahur Mägi (Tallinn University of Technology): First Steps to the High-

    Technologies in Estonian Oil Shale Industry

    - Catalin Nicolae Mihai (Transilvania University of Brasov): Electrical Measuring

    Equipment Development in Romania

    B. Session: Different Angles on Mobility in Modernity

    - John Laurence Busch (Independent Historian): Liberté et Mobilité pour Humanité:

    The Exponential Transformation of Political Freedom by the First High

    Technology in History

    - Daniel Uziel (Haifa University/Ben Gurion University): The German Aviation

    Industry of the Third Reich as a High-Tech Industry

    - Bartosz Wiesław Zakrzewski (Motor Transport Institute): Electric Van from

    Stalowa Wola – Stal 158

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (4)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - Philipp Aumann (Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum, Germany): Vision

    and Tradition: Rocket Development as a Cultural Revolution in the History of

    German Armaments

    - Brian E. Crim (Lynchburg College, Virginia): From Peenemünde to Huntsville:

    German Specialists and the Culture of Cold War Science

    - Vasily Borisov (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow): Russian Electronics

    between the Military-Industrial Complex and the Market.

    D. Session: Labour-Power: Shifting Perspectives

    - Eike-Christian Heine (Universität Stuttgart): Shovel Work: The Production Process

    of Earthwork and the Body of the Navvy in the 19th Century

    - Marina Cionca (Transilvania University of Brasov): Losing Skilled Labor in the

    Strive for New Technologies. A Case Study

    - Liliia Zemnukhova (Russian Academy of Sciences): When Professional

    Community Changes the Rules: the Case of Russian IT Sphere

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    E. Regional History Studies I—Japan (HISTELCON)

    Chair: Geselowitz

    - Geselowitz / Baal-Schem: Welcome to HISTELCON 2015

    - Nagata: A systematization of Industrial Technologies and Features of Technology

    development of Japan

    - Imura / Uno / Tasaki / Shirakawa: History of Japan’s First Commercial

    Hydroelectric Generation at Keage Power Station

    - Arai / Nakamura / Shirakawa: History of Development of Map-Based Automotive

    Navigation System ‘Honda Electro Gyrocator’

    - Kawamoto: Battle on the Right to the Invention of TN Mode in LCD

    11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

    11.30–13.00

    A. Plenary Session: Computer Meets Human

    - Janine Noack (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam): The Role of Cold War

    Computer Technology in East and West German Militaries (1960s–1980s)

    - Julie Wosk (State University of New York, Maritime College): Female Robots and

    Androids: Changing Technologies and Cultural Views

    - Matthias Heymann / Dania Achermann (Aarhus University): When High Tech

    Meets Science: How the Computer Challenged Climatologists

    13.00–14.00: Lunch Break

    14.00–19.00

    Tour

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    Wednesday, 19th August 2015

    09.30–11.00

    A. Keynote Lecture

    - Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University): From the Universal Turing Machine to Turing’s

    Analog Computer: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited

    11.00–11.30: Coffee Break

    11.30–13.00

    A. Session: Designs on Medical Technology and Its Application

    - Andrei Kalinitchev (University of Turku): Saving Human Lives: the Appliance of

    New Medical Technology in Fighting Lethal Diseases in the Governorate of

    St. Petersburg (Before WWI)

    - Slawomir Lotysz (NIAS): “We Need to Think of What Exactly We Need to Plan”:

    Designing Pharmaceutical Consumption in Poland’s Centrally Controlled

    Economy, 1945–1989

    - Miroslaw Andrzej Sikora (The Institute of National Remembrance, Katowice): Pro

    Publico Bono? Intelligence in Service of Pharmaceutical Industry in People's

    Republic of Poland in 1973–1989

    B. Session: Different Approaches to Innovation

    - Jürgen Poesche / Ilkka Kauranen (Aalto University): Complex and Recursive

    Recombination: Legitimization of Technology and Technological Innovation in the

    Occident from Antiquity to 1789

    - Irina Gouzevitch / Dmitri Gouzevitch (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences

    Sociales, Paris): The High-Tech in the 18th century: Compound Steam Engine by

    a Spanish French-Trained Engineer Maid in England for the Cuban Sugar

    Industry

    - Dikla Bytner (Tel-Aviv University): The History of Modern Technology and the

    History of Modern Invention

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    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (5)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - Richard A. Ruth (US Naval Academy, Maryland): The Secret of Seeing Charlie in

    the Dark: The Starlight Scope, Techno-Anxiety, and the Spectral Mediation of the

    Enemy in the Vietnam War

    - Olufikayo Kunle Oyelade (University of Ibadan, Nigeria): The Nigerian Civil War

    and the Sociocultural Context of the ‘Ogbunigwe’ Missile

    - Virginie Wanyaka Bonguen Oyongmen (Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon):

    L’Armee Camerounaise et les Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et de la

    Communication

    D. Session: Making Music, Creating New Sounds

    - Sonja Neumann (Deutsches Museum München): From Electronic Musical

    Instruments to Lethal Weapons and Back Again – Oskar Vierling (1904–1986)

    and High-Frequency Technology in 20th Century Germany

    - Susan Schmidt Horning (St. John's University, NYC): Yesterday’s High Tech Is

    Tomorrow’s Retro Tech: The Changing Fortunes of the Material Culture of Music-

    Making

    E. Regional Studies II —Europe (HISTELCON)

    - Vardalas / Geselowitz: The Trireme—High-Tech Weapon of the Ancient European

    Seas

    - Kádár: Metro Line No. 1 (Budapest, Hungary)

    - Sharygin / Sharygina: Siberian Electronic and Cultural Progress in the East

    Russia During the Last Century

    - Rocchelli / Savini: The History of Electronics Reviewed Through the Study of the

    Life and Activities of the FIVRE-Marelli Company in Pavia

    F. Human Factors in the History of Technology (HISTELCON)

    - Guarnieri: The Rise of Light

    - Jovanovic: Nikola Tesla and the problem of Human Energy

    - Brewer / Geselowitz: The Engineering & Technology History Network (ETHN)

    - Hasegawa/ Katsukawa / Suzuki: Japanese Innovation History from ‘One Step on

    ElectroTechnology’

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    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break

    14.30–16.00

    A. Session: Structured Invention and Structuring Innovation

    - Peter Koval (Humboldt University Berlin): Obstacle Design and the Historiography

    of Technology

    - Eduardo Perez-Molina (TCB-UPM): The Role of Patent Citations as a Historical

    Footprint of Technology

    - Elitsa Stoilova (Plovdiv University): Education in Technology: New High-

    Technological Channels for Transfer of “Old” Technological Knowledge

    B. Session: Innovation in the Wake of War

    - Anthony Travis (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Capturing Nitrogen with

    Electrochemistry and High-Pressure Chemistry: New Chemical Technologies in

    the Early 20th Century

    - Louise Karlskov Skyggebjerg (The Danish Museum of Science and Technology):

    World War I and Cross-Country Transfer of High Technologies

    - Emily Brock (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): The

    Development of Marine Grade Plywood and the Environmental Impact of World

    War II Naval Small Craft

    C. Session: Tenth Annual ICOHTEC Symposium on the Social History of

    Military Technology (6)

    Organizer: Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution); Co-Organizer: Ciro Paoletti (Italian

    Commission of Military History)

    - Paul J. Hoffman (US Air Command and Staff College, Alabama): Explaining

    Organizational Variation in Suicide Attacks, 2004–2013

    - Paul J. Springer (US Air Command and Staff College, Alabama): War by Remote

    Control: The Strategic Costs of Drone Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

    - Krzysztof Kubiak (University of Jan Kochanowski, Poland): The Western Core of

    NATO: Between High Technology Armies and Post-Heroic Societies

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    D. Session: High Technology in Long-Term Perspective and Cultural

    Practice – Lessons from the History of Infrastructure

    Organizer: Andreas Marklund (The Danish Post & Tele Museum)

    Chair: Mogens Rüdiger (Aalborg University Denmark)

    - Andreas Marklund (The Danish Post & Tele Museum): Historicizing Infrastructure

    after the Material Turn

    - Sanne Aagaard Jensen (The Danish Post & Tele Museum, University of

    Copenhagen): Securing the Alliance With Infrastructure and Technology:

    Infrastructure Programs and Communications Security on the NATO Agenda in

    the 1950s

    - Zef Segal (Ben-Gurion University/the Hebrew University): The mid-19th century

    annihilation of space: The railway infrastructure delimitation of territorial identities

    in 19thcentury Germany

    - Comment

    E. History of Computing and Related Components (HISTELCON)

    - Bencic / Hanzek / Fajt: The First Remote Recording of Gramophone Records in

    Europe (Zagreb, 1927)

    - Shilov / Silantiev: Logical Mmachines: Predecessors of Modern Intellectual

    Technologies

    - Okuda: Vicissitude of Magnetic Tape Data Storage: Comparison with Video Tape

    Recording

    - Savini / Savini: Short History of 3D Printing, a Technological Revolution Just

    Started

    F. History of Telecom (HISTELCON)

    - Makhrovskiy: The 120th Anniversary of the Invention of Radio by A. S. Popov:

    From Telegraph Apparatus to Future Communications Technologies

    - Borisova: Beginning of Soviet Broadcasting and First Soviet Radar Projects as

    Example of State Influence on Innovations

    - Hochheiser: The Telephone in America to 1970: from High Technology to a Part

    of Everyday Life

    - MacRae / Noll: Bell Laboratories, Incorporated: 1925–1984—New Jersey’s

    Innovation Factory

    16.00–16.30: Coffee Break

    16.30–18.30

    Prize Winners’ Sessions

    G. Daumas Prize Winner’s Session

    Stefan Krebs: Dial Gauge Versus Senses 1-0: German Car Mechanics and the

    Introduction of New Diagnostic Equipment, 1950-1980

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    Chair: Susan Schmidt Horning (St. John's University, NYC)

    - Hans Joachim Braun (Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg)

    - Christopher Neumaier (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)

    20.00–22.00

    Jazz Night

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    Thursday, 20th August 2015

    09.15–11.00

    A. Session: Universality in Computational Theory

    Organizer: Arie John Mor-Wurm (Achva Academic College)

    - Arie John Mor-Wurm (Achva Academic College): Universality in Leibnitz Theory

    - Oded Koren (Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art): From Charles Babbage’s

    Analytical Engine to Turing Imitation Game

    - Boaz Tamir (Bar Ilan University): Universal Circuits in Classical and Modern

    Computers

    - Israel Belfer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): From Mathesis Universalis to

    Universal Information

    B. Session: Mathematics, Science-Fiction and Technology

    - Heiko Schmid (Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne): Shaping Science-Fiction

    Universes. The Hidden Relations Between Machine Phantasies and Fine Art

    - Emiliya Todorova Karaboeva (Plovidv University/Eindhoven Technological

    University): Pathfinders of the Future (Technological Future in Socialist Science

    Fiction)

    - Eufrosina Otlacan (CRIFST, Romanian Committee for History of Science and

    Technics): About Theoretical Hydrodynamics and Professor Victor Valcovici

    (1885–1970)

    - Special Poster Presentation: Lilia Ponomarenko (National Technical University of

    Ukraine): Up-to-date State of Information Technologies Formation: Contribution of

    Academician V.E. Lashkarev to Discovery of p-n junction

    C. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015: The

    Origins (HISTELCON)

    Moderator: Arie Braunstein (Tel-Aviv University) – IEEE Israel Past Chair.

    - Jacob Baal-Schem (Tel-Aviv University): Enablers of Israel Technology

    - Raya Leviathan (Tel Aviv University), The Golem: First Israeli Computer

    - Elisha Yanay (Association of Electronics & Software Industries): Motorola Israel:

    An industrial pioneer

    - Yael Nemirovsky (Technion, Haifa): Fist steps in Microelectronics

    11.00–11.15: Coffee Break

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    11.15–13.00

    A. Session: Presence and Evolution of Air Pollution Damage on Vegetation

    in the Valley of Mexico: Historical Summary

    Chair: María de Lourdes de la Isla de Bauer (Colegio de Postgraduados. Teaching

    and Research in Agricultural Science)

    - María de Lourdes de la Isla de Bauer (Colegio de Postgraduados. Teaching and

    Research in Agricultural Science): Detecting the Consequences of Air Pollution in

    Plants: The Mexico City Area

    - Abel Quevedo Nolasco (Colegio de Postgraduados. Teaching and Research in

    Agricultural Science): Wind Patterns and Ozone Concentrations Southern Mexico

    City

    - Tomás Hernández Tejeda (National Institute for Forestry, agricultural and Animal

    Husbandry Research): Ozone Sensitivity and Damage of Evolution in Pine Trees

    of the Mexican Valley

    - Dionicio Alvarado Rosales (Colegio de Postgraduados. Teaching and Research in

    Agricultural Science): Fir Forest Decline and Death at the Desierto de los Leones

    Park, Distrito Federal

    B. Session: Conceptualizing Modernity in Architecture

    - Piotr Marciniak (Poznan University of Technology): In Pursuit of Modernity:

    Architecture and Computers in Communist Poland (1945–1989)

    - Agnieszka Rumież (Poznan University of Technology): How to Tame

    Mathematical Methods in Architectural Design

    - Bartha Biborka (Transilvania University of Brasov): Integration of Vernacular

    Concepts in the Development of Romanian High-Tech Rural Communities

    - Victoria V. Cotorobai (Technical University Gheorghe Asachi from Iasi): High Tech

    & Paradigms Shift in Buildings Area

    C. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015: The

    Origins: Achievements (HISTELCON)

    Moderator: Ezra Zeheb (Technion, Haifa)

    - Simon Litsyn (Tel-Aviv University): Flash Technology-Extreme Science

    - Yossi Shaham (Tel-Aviv University): Nanotechnology in Israel – an Overview

    - Daniel Rosenne (Tadiran Telecom): Israel’s Defense Telecommunications

    Network: Insight into a late-70s/early 80s major project

    - Danny Gold (Gold R&D Technology and Innovation): Iron Dome

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    13.00–14.30: Lunch Break

    14.30–17.00

    A. ICOHTEC General Assembly

    B. The History of Israeli Hi-Tec from a Personal Perspective 1955–2015:

    Homage to Founders – Presentation of Certificates and Lectures of

    Recipients (HISTELCON)

    Moderator: Peli Peled

    18.30–19.30

    Cocktail Offered by IEEE Israel Section

    20.00–22.00

    Gala Dinner