<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi, all … Although I have followed this list for years, I am now a new member and wanted to alert you to my new book: <i>Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting.</i><div><br></div><div> The book is both an account of what the title describes - including historical context, what followed, and a thought experiment about the way forward from the chaos on and after election night 2020 - plus what I’ve called the story of the story, an account of the treasure hunt that ranged all across the country for the primary source materials I needed to create this book. <div><br></div><div>There are more details on Amazon, of course - about me and the book - at https://a.co/d/cBHrvhp<div dir="ltr"></div></div><div><br></div><div>I have also engaged in a variety of activities to spread the word since the book has been written for a general audience:</div><div><br></div><div>— most recently I gave a talk at the Computer History Museum: </div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/eCw2_qFSNmo">https://youtu.be/eCw2_qFSNmo</a></div><div><br></div><div>— I was the guest on a Politico Tech podcast: <a href="https://go.umd.edu/PoliticoPodcast" rev="en_rl_none" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://go.umd.edu/PoliticoPodcast</a></div><div><br></div><div>— I was interviewed for a story about the book on a PBS website: <a href="https://www.nextavenue.org/predicting-the-president/" rev="en_rl_none" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://www.nextavenue.org/predicting-the-president/</a></div><div><br></div><div>— I wrote an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News: <a href="https://go.umd.edu/DallasOpEdpdf" rev="en_rl_none" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://go.umd.edu/DallasOpEdpdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>- And I gave the keynote address for the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference: <a href="https://ajha.wildapricot.org/https/ajha.wildapricot.org/page-18265/">https://ajha.wildapricot.org/https/ajha.wildapricot.org/page-18265/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The book built on a PhD dissertation that won the annual media history dissertation award from the American Journalism Historians Association. </div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for all the self promotion here. Since I am not known to those on this list - and since I come from the world of journalism rather than the world of computing (though in an earlier life I was director of data journalism at the Washington Post), I thought these details might be needed to attract your interest. There is even a blurb for this book by a notable member of this group, Paul Ceruzzi, who was helpful to me early on in my research.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your time,</div><div><br></div><div>Ira Chinoy, PhD</div><div>Associate Professor Emeritus</div><div>Philip Merrill College of Journalism</div><div>University of Maryland</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/ira-chinoy">https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/ira-chinoy</a></div><div><br></div><div>ichinoy@umd.edu</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>