Jeffrey Yost

@justcode.bsky.social

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Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE

Cover of Decentralised Digital Security hooded faceless figure
I School at Berkeley/South Hall building facade.
Cover image of new issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Portrait images of Andra Sonia Petrutiu, Jordan Ali, and Max Kwass Mason
Flyer for Andrew Lison's Book Launch talk, his photo and book design elements.
From Edward Higgs' book. A composite image of faces and the pseudoscience of facial traits/biometrics and associations with certain maladies such as Tuberculosis, as well as social characterizations such as criminality.
Flyer for event
Book cover Architectural Intelligence, yellow, gray, distributed network
Flyer with Molly Steenson's photo and design and text on the event.
Aaron Mendon-Plasek presenting.
Talk flyer with Burcu Baykurt image and text on the May 5th event.
CBI's MOSAICS logo, basic information on the MOSAICS Symposium, and list of the members of the Program Committee.
Molly Steenson presenting at the front of an auditorium classroom with slide on AI history above.
Inventor Nathan Ramasarma demonstrates his formsense smart leggings, which create a real-time virtual avatar of the athlete with data overlaps to help improve performance. Credit: Nathan Ramasarma.
The PARAM Pravega supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (image by Andra Sonia Petrutiu). Glass enclosed raised floor computer room with double glass door entrance.
Flyer with portrait photo of Sam Franz for his CBI Tomash Lecture
Unseen Signals exhibit photo
Cover of the book The Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work, teal with white lettering
Portrait photo of Indiana U. Prof. Rachel Plotnick in front of blurred background setting of grass and trees.
Cover of Automation by Design special issue of IEEE Annals. The image is the US Census' FOSDIC installation with three professionals at a desk and two behind by the mainframe computer in the background. B&W image.
Book cover with watercolor or watercolor like red, blue, green and yellow design of two spheres on a surface but oriented horizontally.
UC Davis STS conf room and title slide
Prof. Lisa Messeri at podium giving a talk at UMN.
Flyer with elements from her book design and portrait photo of Lisa Messeri.
Guests (including the author, left) at the black-tie cocktail reception following the European OS Awards Ceremony. Photo courtesy of the European Open Source Academy, https://europeanopensource.academy/.
Rice U.'s Liz Petrick delivering a lecture holding a tablet.
Woman at EIES terminal (circa 1979), b & w photo, she is seated with her right hand on the keyboard looking at the screen. EIES was a pioneering bulletin board and conferencing networked system.
1960 Lucky Strike ad with woman smiling as she holds a lit cigarette--Wikimedia Commons
UMN HSTM group photo from the Pavek Museum today!
Flyer of talk w headshot
Cover of Island Tinkerers, which is an illustration of Taiwan on a map with cartoonish images of digital tech and people using digital tech.
Rochdale Canal Lock 91, industrial setting with lock and water flowing. David Dixon Wikimedia Commons
Cover of The Chinese Computer, blue and gray with a woman sitting at a keyboard/machine and QWERTY keys magnified above with smaller Chinese characters on the keys.
Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.
Cover of Brad A. Myers' book Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interactive Techniques. black colored book with purple, white and gray design elements and computer keyboard keys in the background.
Cover of Thomas Mullaney's book The Chinese Computer, blue book with gray image and lettering, a woman sits at a stenography machine and in the background a QWERTY keyboard with many Chinese Characters on each key.
Cover of Beyond the Facts book by James W Cortada. In pastel blue and green and white it shows a stack of books with a ladder up to a light bulb.
Group photo of "Shady Subjects" Workshop Cornell U. April 24-26, 2025
Radio Electronics with robot squirrel Squee 1951
Business History Conf. 2025 in Atlanta. Session on IBM and Work with left to right Corinna Schlombs, Jim Cortada, and David Stebenne.
Prof. Anita Say Chan delivering her talk on Predatory Data in MPLS for CBI & CWGPP at UMN.
Streaming shot of laptop with 1980s sitcom Family Ties playing--pictured is Alex and Mallory Keaton using an early personal computer in the family's living room.
Flyer with information on the talk and Anita Say Chan picture & short bio in the middle of the flyer. Coloring is U of Minnesota maroon and gold.
Screen shot of Island Tinkerers book lecture of Prof Honghong Tinn. Book cover and description.
JUST CODE book cover. Black text for title and subtitle with code design in lettering and trailing pastel colors.
Museum display of Blue Box used for phone phreaking. Keypad and small speaker/receiver.
Cobalt cover of book with three images of engineering, manufacturing, & devices, Including an artificial leg.
Photo of hills and Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
Image of Lisa Messeri
UMich Computer Center in the early 1980s two black and white photos of students at workstations using personal computers.
Cover of Bill Aspray's book Writing Computer and Information History. Light blue with maroon and navy blue lettering and navy blue spine.
Joanna Radin and her opening title slide, behind podium with UMN maroon and gold "M" sign.
Image of Baker Library of HBS, and Harvard Business School sign.
Prof. Mara Mills and Prof. Patrick McCray side-by-side photos left to right.
Image of Aaron Marcus and a maroon and gold event flyer.
ACM logo, blue background, different shades and white circle with acm in the middle.
A drawing that shows many different kinds of accidents, harms, and threats, from explosions to transportation accidents.
High rise building's computer room with a Control Data computer and floor to ceiling windows and lights of the city in the night sky. A scene in the movie Diehard.
A girl sits at an early PC in the early 1980s playing a video game as a boy looks on at her left. The cover image for Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture.