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Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, male computer experts were able to successfully transform the "routine and mechanical" (and therefore feminized) activity of computer programming into a highly valued, well-paying, and professionally respectable discipline. They did so by constructing for themselves a distinctively masculine identity in which individual artistic genius, personal eccentricity, anti-authoritarian behavior, and a characteristic "dislike of activities involving human interaction" were mobilized as sources of personal and professional authority. This article explores the history of masculine culture and practices in computer programming, with a particular focus on the role of university computer centers as key sites of cultural formation and dissemination.

Discusses various notes, events and conferences focusing on the history of computing. Progress report on the NCR archive; Information on the Evolution of Technoscience seminar held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool on March 29, 2003; Fire at Artificial Intelligence Library of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland; Information on the 2002 meeting for the Society for the History of Technology held in Toronto.

Presents news briefs related to computing as of January 2003. Information on the bombe rebuild project led by Johhn Harper and colleagues; Conference which focused on artificial intelligence; Tribute to Dutch scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra.

The article reports on historians of computing. According to the author, historians of this discipline have edges over the historians of other fields of study because computing has broad contemporary relevance. Moreover, computing historians have several means of effectively getting involved with the popular interest in the social aspects of computing. Situating the social entailments of electronic computing is one contribution that historians can give regarding its contemporary discussions. Giving the history of computer ethics in its discussion will help define what is extraordinary about the computer revolution.

Presents news briefs on several events and sightings in the computer industry as of April 2002. Anniversary celebration in business computing held by Lyons Electronic Office; Article on the introduction of a full-size electronic computer, reprinted by the online edition 'The Economist' from its March 12, 1954 issue; Information on the computing time line of Columbia University in New York City.