<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><br></div><div>Depending on how liberal a definition of software industry one uses, another example is:</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Massie, now a Representative from Kentucky, invented PHANTOM while at MIT (he won the Lemelson Student Prize for this) and founded SensAbleTechnologies. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/thomas-massie">http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/thomas-massie</a></div><div><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/05/17/from-mit-entrepreneur-to-tea-party-leader-the-thomas-massie-story/">http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/05/17/from-mit-entrepreneur-to-tea-party-leader-the-thomas-massie-story/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/11/meet-representative-thomas-massie-constitutional-conservative-mit-pedigree">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/11/meet-representative-thomas-massie-constitutional-conservative-mit-pedigree</a></div><div><a href="https://massie.house.gov/about">https://massie.house.gov/about</a></div><div><br></div><div>Debbie Douglas</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:41 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <<a href="mailto:amm5ae@virginia.edu">amm5ae@virginia.edu</a>></div><div> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">As a follow up to Ayyadurai's candidacy -- have there been any previous instances of people who identify with the software industry running for major political office in the United states or internationally? <div><br></div><div>--Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --<br>Andrew Meade McGee<br>Corcoran Department of History<br>University of Virginia<br>PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall<br>Charlottesville, VA 22904</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Meade McGee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amm5ae@virginia.edu" target="_blank">amm5ae@virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Continuing with the ongoing saga of V. A. Shiva and his claims regarding the invention of e-mail, that gentleman has just announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/835420061993218048" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/va_shiva/<wbr>status/835420061993218048</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As several SIGCIS contributors noted earlier this month, this nicely parallels the upcoming SHOT themes of technology and democracy. "Alternate facts" about the history of technology will play a major public element of this campaign next year. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--Andrew</div></font></span></div>
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