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Computer industry pioneer and visionary cofounder (with his wife Adelle Tomash) of the Charles Babbage Foundation (CBF) and the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Erwin Tomash passed away on 10 December 2012. In the late 1940s, Tomash was an engineer at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), one of two firms that launched the US computer industry. He later founded and led Dataproducts Corporation, a Fortune 500 computer peripherals and core memory firm. Erwin and Adelle Tomash's insights and generosity in founding, supporting, and advising CBF and CBI have had a profound and continuing impact on the infrastructure for research and publication of scholarship on computer and software history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Events & Sightings installment covers a range of recent events focusing on the history of computing. Luanne Johnson gives a brief obituary of Lawrence A. (Larry) Welke, who in the mid-1960s became the world's first publisher dedicated to the newborn software industry and was dubbed by early software industry leaders "the father of the software industry." Akihiko Yamada also recaps the work of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NMHS), IEEE, Japanese academic societies, and governmental organizations to recognize and commemorate important historical artifacts as part of Japan's technological heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article highlights the events at the Computer History Museum of Mountain View, California, for the winter quarter of 2008. Finding aids for the papers of authors including Harwood Kolsky, Gene Amdahl, and Edmund Berkeley were added to the Online Archive of California by the Museum. Also, the SAP collection was rescued from destruction by the Museum staff, and were catalogued and placed at the new offsite storage facility in Milpitas, California. An obituary for Donald Lee Stevens was also presented.

This issue of Events & Sightings recaps the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and History of Science Society (HSS) collocated annual meetings in Cleveland, Ohio, on 2–6 November 2011. It also includes an obituaries of Patrick C. Fischer, Steve Jobs, Dennis M. Ritchie, and John McCarthy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This issue of Events & Sightings covers the 50th Anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). It also includes an obituary of Jean Carteron, an influential actor in the development of computing in France. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Events & Sightings installment covers a range of recent events focusing on the history of computing. Dave Walden recaps a Who Is Who in the Internet World (WiWiW) project Internet pioneers meeting in Washington D.C. Akihiko Yamada describes the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) ELIS Revival Festival. The department also includes current events and offerings at the Computer History Museum and an obituary of Herb Grosch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]