Following the successful June 2016 workshop “Beyond ENIAC: Early Digital Platforms & Practices” we are holding a followup event to lay the groundwork for a book with the provisional title Exploring the Early Digital. The book, intended as a reader suitable for classroom use and as an introduction to research in the field, will be a mixture of accessible new work by leading scholars and reprints/excerpts from existing works.

Most of the workshop will therefore be spent reviewing and discussing drafts/position papers circulated in advance by invited contributors to the book. There will also be two public lectures by scholars visiting from the United States, a panel discussion featuring the authors of the most influential overview histories of computing, and sessions spent planning out the content and structure of the book.

The workshop is open to all interested participants. To gain access to the precirculated documents, email thomas.haigh@gmail.com.