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Congrats, Kim! Looks Like a very useful book! I'll be sure to check it out for one of my graduate electives!</div>
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<span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">“</span><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”</span></font><i style="color:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit"><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif" style=""><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(50,50,50); font-family:Charter,Georgia,Times,serif; font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:inherit">-
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</span></font><span style="font-size:10pt">Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.<br>
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<div class="PlainText" style=""><span style="font-size:10pt">Email: ramesh.subramanian@qu.edu<br>
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</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-size:10pt">Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu<br>
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<div class="PlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Recent book:<span> </span></span><i style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" style="margin:0px">Mobile
Technology and Social Transformations</a></i><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">, Routledge, UK (2021)</span><br>
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SIGCIS,</p>
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I’m pleased announce my book on software history has been published with ACM Books. It is titled
<i>Software: A Technical History</i> and is a textbook for students of computing to understand the history of software. If you have access to the ACM Digital Library (DL), then you likely already have free access to it:
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3477339</a>. It is also available via <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F145038725X%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cramesh.subramanian%40quinnipiac.edu%7Cd8931dc4abf649a1027308d98761bd90%7C0940985869fb4de9987990db22b52eaf%7C0%7C1%7C637689676148473796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=G4LvweS3fhsFb9SitHMg%2FjvV3h3EcmgvBpGjIsWF5YY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145038725X/" shash="i/UdTz0f/k0UaknjkVDF5RKRhtdobn/ijMNGKa+Vzam6+hw23jzp42acrEewOttVA91ibZxOsNQgub+I+d/Hb2Cnob1o+mF0hMWvm2OXajUh1PvMwCswCVCDMYeT0DEryq7cbfMWLaDzwdOvbxymLh0l44zNNxQRmRfBwFJgxcs=">
Amazon</a> and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%2Fw%2Fsoftware-kim-w-tracy%2F1140205842%3Fean%3D9781450387255&data=04%7C01%7Cramesh.subramanian%40quinnipiac.edu%7Cd8931dc4abf649a1027308d98761bd90%7C0940985869fb4de9987990db22b52eaf%7C0%7C1%7C637689676148473796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=WW6Lxcv9Inw5ysX8rbsBc38OFIYVQ9%2BTTE%2FlDBsj%2BNQ%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/software-kim-w-tracy/1140205842?ean=9781450387255" shash="wHfICgmoPmJw5iZijAKZj+L/n6l5R6ZEx+dHJ84MGOMSyPLP8VL2vpqjTrMI32KC01yt8StkDHCDdnQG5vrEb4L/FuHqt52A9umBtl6VDfnxrGlJ2qMo8+sf4ztrb2mbaI7DSQ4V8k/Sf22UHEPOHWLNtCSalYFf7hpLdQvCb0s=">
Barnes and Noble</a>. It’s only $34.95 as a paperback, but I’m hoping most students studying computing will have free access through their institution’s ACM DL subscription.
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I wrote the book because I started teaching the history of computation as a special topics course and it became clear to me that much of the most important part, software, was barely covered in most texts from a technical point of view. I began developing
my own materials and it became clear that not only was this material not covered in most curricula, it was becoming increasingly important as students build on layers of pre-existing software without much understanding of how it was built or its design assumptions.
Students studying computer security are faced with these layers of pre-existing software that are often put to unpredicted uses which exposes new vulnerabilities. An intent is that students will be able to better reason about software as a technology and
better predict where it is going, why it succeeds, and why it fails. I include as many exercises as I could so that students can explore interesting corners of software history that I couldn’t cover in the book.</p>
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I’d appreciate any feedback on it, and, of course, any Amazon or Barnes and Noble reviews you’d be willing to write.
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SIGCIS has helped provide a lot of interesting examples over the years, some of which you may recognize as exercises. . . .</p>
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