<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Dear friends & colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">After two decades of stockpiling photos, ads, data, texts </font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">and</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> ideas, a year of friendly collaboration between a historian and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">a computer scientist</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> yielded</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> a richly illustrated</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">History of Computing</i><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> (</span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14px;">in French in its initial version)*. It embraces computing and data processing over a long period, ranging from Sumerian tables to the internet of things, and tries to embrace the worldwide scene – as far as</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> is </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">allowed in</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> 260 pages. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">It even appeals to a non-French readership as most of its content is iconographic, which makes it as inherently international as old silent movies!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The next step will be to produce an English version of the book. Therefore (this is the second part of my ad) we are looking for a volunteer to translate it. The ideal person would be a native Anglophone knowledgeable in the history of computing, able to read French and to write proper English – and willing to devote several weeks to this work, duly paid by our publisher.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Best regards – and hopefully see you in Singapore. </span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<br><br>CNRS & Universite Paris-Sorbonne</font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><a href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn</font></a></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><a href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;">http://koyre.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/1203/mounier_kuhn_cv_anglais.pdf</font></a></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><font face="Times New Roman" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); cursor: pointer;"><br></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Emmanuel Lazard et Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, <i>Histoire illustree de l’informatique</i>, EDP Sciences, 2016.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1004_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1029_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://laboutique.edpsciences.fr/produit/846/9782759818198/Histoire%20illustree%20de%20linformatique" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://laboutique.edpsciences.fr/produit/846/9782759818198/Histoire%20illustree%20de%20linformatique</a></span></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><font face="Times New Roman" style="color: rgb(0, 90, 149); cursor: pointer;"></font></div></body></html>