This department article features stories about the following: History session at the annual conference of the Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico (the Italian Computer Society); the announcement of Thomas J. Misa as the new director of the Charles Babbage Institute; the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics; obituaries of Jerre D. Noe, William O. Baker, and Shigeru Takahashi; a notice about Computer History Museum events; and the reconstruction of a Greek planetarium.
Index Terms:
Italian Computer Society, Charles Babbage Institute, 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics, Jerre D. Noe, William O. Baker, Shigeru Takahashi, Computer History Museum, Antikythera Mechanism
Citation:
Chigusa Kita, "Events and Sightings," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 89-92, Jan.-Mar. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.9