
<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="">Congratulations! This looks great!<br class=""><div class="">

<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>_________________________<br class=""><br class=""></div><div>Nabeel Siddiqui, PhD<br class="">Assistant Professor of Digital Media<br class="">Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning<br class="">Susquehanna University<br class="">514 University Ave.<br class="">Selinsgrove, PA  17870</div></div>

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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 3, 2023, at 2:57 PM, Julie Cohn via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Congratulations, Dick! An excellent accomplishment!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Julie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">

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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 3, 2023, at 11:08 AM, Gerard Alberts via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Congratulations, Dick, on this major contributions to the cultural history of computing. Prophecies spread faster than machines.</span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Gerard</span></div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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; display: inline-block; width: 794.765625px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">Van:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> namens Dick van Lente via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Verzonden:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dinsdag 3 januari 2023 17:07<br class=""><b class="">Aan:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members@lists.sigcis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" class="">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Onderwerp:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[SIGCIS-Members] new book</font><div class=""> </div></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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=""><div class="x_elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear SIGCIS, </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt;">Some of you may be interested in a collection of essays that I edited and that just came out with Morgan & Claypool/ACM: </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" class=""><a href="https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morganclaypoolpublishers.com%2Fcatalog_Orig%2Findex.php%3FcPath%3D24%26sort%3D2d&data=05%7C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