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<div dir="ltr"><div>Congratulations Con on your promotion and the exciting new book. Back in 1998 while I was a Brookings Fellow for Sen John Kerry I had the opportunity to give input to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A lot has evolved since then.</div><div><br></div><div>eCheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Eileen Buckholtz</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jeffrey Yost 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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Professor <span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Roboto,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Gerardo Con Díaz</span> has recently been promoted to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology Studies at UC, Davis! </div><div><br></div><div>Additionally, his new book <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rDhmGzdXQ$" target="_blank">Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World</a> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!</div><div><br></div><div>Please join me in congratulating Con!!!</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b> </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rCsRJb_Dw$" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rDNmAED8A$" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rBMfUk0cw$" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.blockchainandsociety.com__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rCcL-cAbw$" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rABTmnqgQ$" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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