<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="">Hi!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lee was very gracious in describing my new book project…and he pretty much nailed it. I’m hoping to use a selection of books published after 1945 as windows into the histories of computing, technology, publishing. The project’s under contract with MIT Press and, with archives slowly opening up, I’m hoping to do a few final research trips and polish it off. We’ll see…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Patrick</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 Mar 17, 2022, at 10:12 AM, Lee Vinsel <<a href="mailto:lee.vinsel@gmail.com" class="">lee.vinsel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hey, bud. I doubt you'll learn anything from the various responses this email has received, but I wanted to make you aware of it in case you miss it otherwise. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Evan Koblentz</strong> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" class="">evank@njit.edu</a>></span><br class="">Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM<br class="">Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:members@SIGCIS.org" class="">members@SIGCIS.org</a> <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" class="">members@sigcis.org</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class="">
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<div class="m_383981992845317914WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p>
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<li class="m_383981992845317914MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></li><li class="m_383981992845317914MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Are there existing papers on this subject?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p>
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