<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Good suggestion! Science fiction often tells us about the present, sometimes more than the future.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">----<div dir="auto">Evan Koblentz<br dir="auto"> <br dir="auto">Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications</div><div dir="auto">Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing<br dir="auto"> <br dir="auto"><a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="" dir="auto">evank@njit.edu</a><br dir="auto"><a href="tel:(973) 596-3065" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="" dir="auto">(973) 596-3065</a></div><div dir="auto">Https://web.njit.edu/~evank</div><div dir="auto">@TechnicallyEvan</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Adam Hyland <achyland@uw.edu> </div><div>Date: 3/17/22 11:15 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Jean Graham <jean.graham@stonybrook.edu> </div><div>Cc: Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu>, "members@SIGCIS.org" <members@sigcis.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">I wouldn't know how to begin writing about this, but Asimov comes immediately to mind for pre 1965. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 8:04 AM Jean Graham <<a href="mailto:jean.graham@stonybrook.edu">jean.graham@stonybrook.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Definitely the people who wrote hacker zines and bulletin boards, not least because they combined a political point of view with their technical writing</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu">evank@njit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Are there existing papers on this subject?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications<br>
Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing<br>
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