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Dame Shirley was also a CHM Fellow and you can read a bit more about her here:
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<div>An amazing person!</div>
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Dag Spicer<br>
Senior Curator<br>
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Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<br>
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<div>On Sep 12, 2025, at 1:32 PM, Jonathan Coopersmith via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">another change agent</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/09/04/steve-shirley-countered-sexism-by-founding-her-own-company" originalsrc="https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/09/04/steve-shirley-countered-sexism-by-founding-her-own-company">https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/09/04/steve-shirley-countered-sexism-by-founding-her-own-company</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stay sane</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">,</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">with Arthur Daemmrich, “<a style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">The Road Not (Yet) Taken</a>. Historians As Policy Professionals<i>,” AHA Perspectives</i> May 2025, 18-20.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></div>
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<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed.,
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