[SIGCIS-Members] Eden Medina makes the New York Times - congratulations!

[Sheldon Hochheiser]

I believe that Times style is to refer to all physicians (and nobody else)
as Dr.

Sheldon

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Haigh <thaigh at computer.org> wrote:

> NY Times house style has everyone as Mr. or Ms. Including Mr. Obama.
> Although IIRC it was always Dr. Albright -- she hadn't spent six years in
> Evil Medical School to be called Ms., and insisted on it.
>
> Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-bounces at sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces at sigcis.org] On
> Behalf Of M. Hicks
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:43 AM
> To: Janet Abbate
> Cc: sigcis
> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Eden Medina makes the New York Times -
> congratulations!
>
> How terrific! I also like that the (1960s era, British) term "white heat"
> was used to describe "21st c. Technology."
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> One quibble: shouldn't they have referred to you as Dr. or Prof. Medina,
> rather than Ms.? Or is that how the NYT always does things?
>
> Congrats again!
>
> Marie
>
> ______________________
> Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
> Asst. Professor, History of Technology
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> Chicago, IL USA
> mariehicks.net | mhicks1 at iit.edu | @histoftech
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> On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:58, Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:
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> > Good going, Eden! I was also impressed by the journalist's accurate
> description of the technology and his understanding that the key
> "cybernetic" element has been lost in the newer systems, rather than simply
> assuming that the iPad version must be more sophisticated than something
> from the 1970s.
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> > Janet
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> > On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:
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> >> SIGCISters -
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> >> Eden Medina's great book, SIGCIS and SHOT prizewinner Cybernetic
> Revolutionaries, made the New York Times op-ed page yesterday!
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> >> Will Wiles compared Cybersyn to British PM David Cameron's iPad app —
> the "No. 10 Dashboard," with which he apparently now runs the British
> government.
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> >> Congratulations, Eden!
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> >> - Paul
> >> ___________________________
> >>
> >> Paul N. Edwards
> >> Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of
> >> Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine:
> >> Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
> >> (MIT Press, 2010)
> >>
> >> Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
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> >> Mailing address (2012-13):
> >> 82 rue Mouffetard
> >> 75005 Paris, France
> >> (206) 337-1523  (fax)
> >> pne.people.si.umich.edu
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> > Dr. Janet Abbate
> > Associate Professor
> > Science & Technology in Society
> > Virginia Tech
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