<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Thank you Elizabeth. Please permit me to share below the statement drafted by her friend, volume coeditor, and my colleague, Mar Hicks: <br><br>Ben <br>--<br><br><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Computer Fire Collaborators and Supporters,</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is with heavy hearts, shock, and sadness that we observe the passing of our colleague and friend Dr. Halcyon Lawrence on October 29, 2023.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Halcyon was an Associate Professor at Towson University at the time of her death, having earned tenure early, and had been excited to put down roots in Maryland while keeping a strong connection to her original home, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to being an incredible scholar whose work on accent bias in automated technologies opened up new questions and areas of study, she was well known and loved in her field, and many other fields, for her kindness and generosity of spirit, her intellectual fearlessness, and her willingness to mentor, help, and support her fellow scholars.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Halcyon's razor sharp insights and her dedication to building more inclusive communities and technologies, especially speech technologies, impacted multiple disciplines. Her contributions to the Computer Fire volume powerfully influenced how we thought about the relationships between speech, empire, and the technical disciplines of sound. All of her colleagues, friends, and especially her students have lost a truly special person with her untimely passing, as the many tributes pouring in on social media show. We four feel--as surely many of you do too--honored to have known her.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Her funeral service will take place in Maryland on November 8, details here:</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://vaughncgreene.com/tribute/details/7087/Halcyon-Lawrence/obituary.html#tribute-start" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://vaughncgreene.com/tribute/details/7087/Halcyon-Lawrence/obituary.html#tribute-start</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In lieu of sending flowers, her family has asked people to contribute to a scholarship fund for a student in need:</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://gofund.me/f8043a8a" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://gofund.me/f8043a8a</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Safiya Noble has also noted that, despite her groundbreaking work, Dr. Lawrence did not have a Wikipedia page at the time of her death. If anyone here regularly edits Wikipedia and would be willing to start a page for her, or to contact a group like WikiWomenInRed who might assist with this, that would be a powerful way to help ensure that her scholarship and legacy live on and continue to reach new audiences. Please share as appropriate.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We are very sorry to be the bearers of such awful news.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Signed,</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Mar, Kavita, Ben, and Tom</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Your Computer is on Fire Editorial Collective<br></span><br><img src="cid:ii_lonhvavv1" alt="ProfHalcyonLawrenceComputerFireConference.jpg" width="472" height="266"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 2:11 PM Elizabeth Petrick via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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I am very sad to report that Halcyon Lawrence has passed away. Some of you may remember her fantastic talk on voice recognition technology and accent bias at the SIGCIS conference at the CHM in 2017 or may know her essay in
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Benjamin Peters</font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small"><font color="#666666">Hazel Rogers Assoc. Prof., Media Studies, U of Tulsa (<a href="https://utulsa.edu/university-of-tulsa-land-acknowledgment/" target="_blank">land acknowledgment</a>) </font></span></div><div><div><font color="#666666"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Affiliated Fellow, the Information Society Project, Yale Law School<br></span></font><font face="times new roman, serif" size="2" style="font-size:12.8px">Book: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-computer-fire" target="_blank">Your Computer is on Fire</a>,</font></font><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif" style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Network-Nation-Information/dp/0262034182/" target="_blank">Soviet Internet</a>, and</font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/1ToHD4v" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank">Digital Keywords</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"times new roman",serif">More: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/current" target="_blank">farm media</a>, </span><font color="#666666" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/11/smart-media-is-a-pain/" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small" target="_blank">smart tech</a>,<span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small"> <a href="https://hackersinitiative.yale.edu/" target="_blank">Russian hackers</a>, <a href="https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/infinity-could-not-be-smaller" target="_blank">small </a></span></font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/infinity-could-not-be-smaller" target="_blank">∞</a>, </span><a href="http://Benjaminpeters.org" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank">Benjaminpeters.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>