<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Congratulations, Joy! How very exciting. I'm enjoying my copy and looking forward to many more conversations! <br><br>Ben </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:45 PM M. Hicks <<a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu">mhicks1@iit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>So excited to read this--I already have my copy. Congratulations on the publication of this exciting and timely volume, Joy!</div><div id="m_-391972937588436364AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-391972937588436364AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="m_-391972937588436364AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-391972937588436364AppleMailSignature">Mar <br><br><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">______________________<br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Marie Hicks, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor, History of Technology<br>Illinois Institute of Technology<br>Chicago, IL USA<br><a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu" target="_blank">mhicks1@iit.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.mariehicks.net/" target="_blank">mariehicks.net</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/histoftech" target="_blank">@histoftech</a><br><i>Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing</i><br><a href="http://www.programmedinequality.com/" target="_blank">www.programmedinequality.com</a></span></div></div><div><br>On Nov 14, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Sweeney, Miriam <<a href="mailto:mesweeney1@ua.edu" target="_blank">mesweeney1@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div>
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I wrote a book!<br>
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<i>A People's History of Computing in the United States</i><span class="m_-391972937588436364Apple-converted-space"> </span>was published by<span class="m_-391972937588436364Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970977" target="_blank">Harvard
University Press</a><span class="m_-391972937588436364Apple-converted-space"> </span>last month. It's now available as a hardcover, e-book, and audiobook (also accessible via your Audible subscription) on<span class="m_-391972937588436364Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-Computing-United-States/dp/0674970977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542215629&sr=8-1&keywords=a+peoples+history+of+computing+in+the+united+states" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and
elsewhere. (Today it's just $20.04 on Amazon.) I hope you'll read it, assign it, and share it.<br>
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Here's my one-sentence summary: During the 1960s and 1970s American students and educators collaboratively created personal computing and social networking on the academic computing networks they built and used; although developed with a vision of computing
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Thank you for making the space for me to share, revise, and improve this work starting when I was a graduate student. I've greatly appreciated the support of the SIGCIS community, especially over the past year or so.<br>
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