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We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 7th symposium on the history and philosophy of programming (HaPoP) taking place at the University of Basel on November 13th, 2026. This year’s theme is “What is critical about programming?“. Once again, invite contributions on the history and philosophy of programming broadly understood, whether …
The General Assembly of the Division of History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) will convene on December 19 2025 in Aachen (co-hosted with the HaPoC conference) and elect its new Council. The call for candidacies is now open and will close on October 15th 2025. Any member of HaPoC can be a candidate as far …
We are pleased to announce that, through the auspices of the Commission for History and Philosophy of Computing (HAPOC), we will be convening the Working Group on Data Sharing starting this October. The new HAPOC working group will meet online to discuss (your!) work-in-progress, classic texts and recently published works. We invite researchers and curious …