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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Las month, with deep regret, I missed my first in person SHOT meeting since 2002. A combination of other travel, family commitments and logistical and financial hurdles caused by the last minute relocation combined to keep me at home. So I did not get a chance to revive the old tradition of an open dinner call for historians of computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, thanks to an invite for a preconference workshop I do find myself attending 4S for the first time since Rotterdam in 2008. Looking through the program, it seems that there’s even less history on the spectacularly large program than there was fifteen years ago, so an initial skim through its many pages did not turn up a huge number of familiar SIGCIS names. Though there is, as you might expect, a lot of CHAT GPT and AI.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But if anyone on the list is attending and would like to join a group meeting for dinner or drinks on one of the days then let me know. I’ll not send any more messages to the main list, but one we identify who, if anyone, is interested we can exchange emails among that group to fix a time and place that works.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>