Dear Colleagues:

I’m pleased to share that Histories of Computing in Asia is out from Springer. This proceedings volume includes chapters on:

Pedagogical approaches to the history of computing
Soviet scientific assistance and early computing in China
The historiography of computing in India
Other regional and international perspectives

This volume began with the IFIP WG 9.7 Workshop on the History of Computing, which I organized in Phuket, Thailand, in September 2024. I hope the collection will be useful to colleagues interested in broadening the geography, sources, and methods of computing history. I am grateful to the authors and peer reviewers whose expertise made this volume possible.

The Working Group has always benefited from the synergies among historians, archivists, cultural studies scholars, and technical professionals. One thing I especially wanted to do was make the contributors more visible, so I created an online companion page with the paper titles and biographical information: https://chrisleslie.info/contributors/

With this work completed, I have turned over the reins of the working group to Kishor Satpathy. We are aiming for an upcoming workshop in Kolkata, India. More details will follow in due course.

Chris Leslie

Bibliographic information: Histories of Computing in Asia. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT), vol. 739. Cham: Springer, 2026. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0. Available from Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0