Folks:

               Immediately below is a link to an interesting astrobiology seminar that the Library of Congress is sponsoring on September 12.  Below that is info about an unrelated cryptology history conference that may also be of interest to readers of this listserv.  Thanks,

               Steve Garber

 

Stephen Garber

NASA History Program Office

Room 2T72

NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
http://history.nasa.gov

 

 

Greetings,

http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/news/nasa-program-2013.html

The event will not be live-streamed but will be recorded, edited and posted on the Library of Congress web site.

 

 

 

The Center for Cryptologic History hosts a biennial international symposium in October during odd-numbered years. The speakers and audience are a mix of outside scholars, current practitioners, retired veterans, and interested members of the public. Past symposia have had presenters from over a dozen countries.

 

The theme for the 2013 symposium, to be held on October 17-18 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Kossiakoff Conference Center (just west of Laurel, Maryland) is "Technological Change and Cryptology: Meeting the Historical Challenges." The conference will include sessions on "A Tribute to Alan Turing," a "Roundtable on Cyber History," "Bletchley Park," "COMINT and the Civil War," "The Cryptologic Legacy of the Great War Era," "SIGINT and the Vietnam War Era," and "A Technological Advantage: Historical Perspectives on Cryptologic Research and Development."

 

In all there will be 21 separate sessions and over 70 presentations. Speakers will include scholars such as David Kahn and cryptologic pioneers such as Whitfield Diffie.

 

All symposium sessions are unclassified and open to the registered public. A complete agenda and registration information will be available at the website http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/center_crypt_history/news/index.shtml or by contacting the Center for Cryptologic History at 301-688-2336 or via email at history@nsa.gov.

 

Note also that the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation has an excellent program the day before ours at the same venue.  For more information, see: http://www.cryptologicfoundation.org/content/About-the-NCMF/comingEvents.shtml#gmm13.