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<div>Members may also find useful CHM curator Hansen Hsu’s blog on Bill from this January, based on several CHM oral histories of him.</div>
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<div>On Jun 16, 2025, at 5:52 PM, Elizabeth Petrick via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:</div>
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<div>I just read of Bill Atkinson's passing. John Markoff did a nice article on him for the NYT:</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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