[SIGCIS-Members] A new(ish) book of potential interest from a software engineer on the original Google Android OS development team reflecting on the project.

[Jeffrey Yost]

Dear Colleagues,

A Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at UMN Gary Meyer reached out to
me about a former student of his while he was at U of Oregon. Gary brought
to my attention a relatively recent book by this former student Chet Hasse.
After his CS degrees, Hasse went on to work as a member of the team that
developed the Android operating system, and had a long career at Google.
Chet did many research interviews with colleagues and collected documents
and wrote the book *Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating
System* (
https://www.amazon.com/Androids-Built-Android-Operating-System/dp/1718502680).
It is an interesting examination of a development project from a
participating engineer, which makes it somewhat unusual, and Chet has
published several other books too--including humor. Thought it might be of
interest to some of you and also I promised Gary I would share it with
colleagues in the history and social study of computing. Chet wrote too and
he let me know that he is donating all royalties evenly split between two
nonprofit organizations advancing diversity in programming, Girls Who Code
and Black Girls Code.

Best, Jeff

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