Ian S. King gave an invited talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Berlin. His talk titled, “Computer History From Below: Reading Human Values in Artifacts”, connected his hands-on experiences as a founder of the Living Computer Museum with the theoretical studies for his dissertation. He was invited by the German Museum of Technology.

Joe Tennis will soon travel to India to give his invited talk at the 2017 Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures. He originally got into his field of research after reading the Prolegomena to Library Classification, by Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan. And now he will give an invited talk titled, "Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research.” Congratulations on this milestone, Joe!

He has lots of other news to share as well:

• Facets accepted his refereed chapter titled, “Never Facets Alone: The Evolving Thought and Persistent Problems in Ranganathan’s Theories of Classification.”
• Advances in Classification Research accepted his refereed conference paper titled, “Perspective, Voice, Reference, and Warrant: A Sample of Ameliorations to the Multi-Perspective Design Requirement and Some Arguments Against It.”
• Memória, cultura e tecnologia na Organização do Conhecimento accepted his refereed conference paper titled, “The Concept of Epistemology in Knowledge Organization: O Conceito de Epistemologia na Organização do Conhecimento.”
• Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users: Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2017 accepted his refereed conference paper titled, “Facets and Change: Design Requirements for Analytio-Synthetic Schemes in Light of Subject Ontogeny Research.”
• Finally, he also gave an invited talk at the International UDC Seminar 2017 titled, “Facets and Change: Design Requirements for Analytico-Synthetic Schemes in Light of Subject Ontogeny Research.”

Adam Moore has been asked to present his views on the connections between privacy, moral value, and liberty at the 7th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty at the University of Illinois, Springfield, Nov. 30^th – Dec. 3^rd, 2017. Adam has also been asked to write the entry on “Privacy” for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (forthcoming 2019).

Jevin West has lots of exciting news to report!

• He has given five keynote talks at conferences this quarter that include:
  • SciX Chemistry Conference held in Reno, Nevada, which addresses a new vision of analytical science by the world. He delivered his talk, “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data.” (10/13/17).
  • UPCEA Conference held in Seattle, which addresses Data Reasoning in the 21st Century. He delivered his talk, “Calling BS in a Data-Driven World.” (9/26/17).
  • NSF ADVANCE Conference on Broadening Participation: Intersectionality held in Washington D.C. His talk was titled, “The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship.” (10/9/17).
  • Washington State Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting held in Edmonds, WA. He delivered his talk, “Calling BS in the Age of Big Data.” (10/7/17).
  • AUREO Conference held in Seattle. He and colleague Carl Bergstrom delivered their talk, “Calling BS in the Age of Big Data.” (9/18/17).
• He also served as one of the plenary speakers at the Geekwire Summit of more than 1,000 attendees in Seattle. In his talk he discussed Misinformation and Technology. It was also broadcast live on Bloomberg TV (10/11/17).

Annie Searle published her October column in ASA titled, “America as a Killing Field.”

Quinn DuPont had two pieces published:

• A post on the 4S Backchannels site titled, “Engendering Alice and Bob.”
• An article in Metaphilosophy titled, “Notational Technologies for Control and Management of Abstracted Entities.”

Katie Davis had a letter to the editor published in the forthcoming issue of The Atlantic in which she responds to its September article, Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation? The headline of her letter is “Getting Smart About Smartphones.”