<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">dear thomas,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thank you!! having 3-6 minute topical clips of Turing winner interviews is a great resource for CS instruction!<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in my experience, it is absolutely the case that a short video gets more views. i'm pretty hardcore about computing history but i'd be hard pressed to watch all the full-length interviews - but i bet i'll watch a lot of the clips!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as it turns out, dave patterson and i just released the 2nd Edition of our software engineering <a href="http://www.saasbook.info" class="">textbook</a>, which features quotes and short profiles of Turing winners at the beginning of each chapter, related to that chapter's topic. i hope it's OK if i take the liberty to link out to some of these videos (or the subscription channel) while prominently crediting ACM and/or SIGCIS, and to proactively notify the many instructors who use the book.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">warm regards and thank you again for your work,</div><div class="">armando (longtime follower, first-time fan mail writer)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 2, 2021, at 09:32, <<a href="mailto:thomas.haigh@gmail.com" class="">thomas.haigh@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thomas.haigh@gmail.com" class="">thomas.haigh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hello SIGCIS,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">For some years I’ve had a little side job for the ACM as editor of the Turing Award website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://amturing.acm.org/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://amturing.acm.org/</a>. This centers on short biographical profiles of the awardees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Most of the heavy lifting to get those written, edited, and posted was carried out by the founding editor, Mike Williams.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">ACM has been running a major initiative to get video history interviews performed with as many of the living Turing awardees as possible. In some cases they have borrowed existing interviews performed by other organizations, but most of the featured interviews are newly conducted and range from one to four hours. The majority are conducted by fellow computer scientists or journalists with only a handful by historians, so there’s considerable variation in tone, interview strategy and topics covered from one interview to another. We have attached the full video interviews to the profiles, via “Video Interview’ icon near the top of the profile. All together, there are currently 35 video interviews, all available on YouTube:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.acm.org/turing-award-50/turing-laureate-interviews" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.acm.org/turing-award-50/turing-laureate-interviews</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">It turned out that not many people were clicking over from the profiles to watch the videos, and that YouTube is more excited by unboxing and cat videos than long interviews with eminent computer scientists. So the ACM History Committee sponsored me to edit down short (mostly 3 to 6 minute) clips from the long interviews and embed them in the biographical profiles. These clips might also be useful for those of you teaching computer science courses or history or STS courses that touch on the contributions of the awardees. You can browse the full list at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/turingawardeeclips/videos" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.youtube.com/c/TuringAwardeeClips/videos</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On the computer science side the relevance should be fairly obvious, as I tried to prepare at least one clip for each awardee focused on their most famous contributions. So you could show Hoare explaining quicksort or CSPs, Lamport on the bakery algorithm, Knuth on TeX or The Art of Computer Programming, Cook on why P=NP matters, Liskov on the Liskov Substitution Principle and so on.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here are some examples of videos that might be useful for certain history or STS courses:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Feigenbaum on editing Computers and Thought:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfr2GnWNYzg" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfr2GnWNYzg</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Kahan and Cerf on why the ARPANET was built:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXTuu7i4hEY" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXTuu7i4hEY</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Knuth on early compiler writing (and why he decided not to do it for a living):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlEQwB0m0I" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlEQwB0m0I</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Brooks on writing The Mythical Man Month:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhDvZ17f2nU" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhDvZ17f2nU</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hellman on the definition of public key encryption:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1Aao1hc8g&t=12s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1Aao1hc8g&t=12s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Rivest on the origins of RSA:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1I1LC1DpeA" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1I1LC1DpeA</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Allen on joining IBM and teaching FORTRAN:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcyOIkhDk1s&t=11s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcyOIkhDk1s&t=11s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Backus on the creation of FORTRAN:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpj84F9-io" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpj84F9-io</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Stonebraker on building INGRES:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da-1IJH2OQ" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da-1IJH2OQ</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Blum on creating CAPTCHA:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7FmOaLJfLw" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7FmOaLJfLw</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Goldwasser on Berkeley’s computer science department:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jP7aShw80&t=134s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jP7aShw80&t=134s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Bachman on IDS, the first database management system:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncvHOLg1bU&t=28s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncvHOLg1bU&t=28s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Kahan on the HP programmable calculators:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBw7tnRx1c&t=294s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBw7tnRx1c&t=294s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Reddy on Graduate School with John McCarthy:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pBxEL-N-o&t=22s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pBxEL-N-o&t=22s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Also, if you need cheering up, watch Micali on how he barely survived graduate school:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVt8S91P0g&t=80s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVt8S91P0g&t=80s</a>. Or if you want to despair at how the academic job market today is not like that in the early days of CS, hear Hopcroft explain how he was hired at Princeton without having published anything:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1SqHUdzk&t=19s" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1SqHUdzk&t=19s</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best wishes,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">Tom<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">This email is relayed from members at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://sigcis.org/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">sigcis.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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