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<div dir="ltr">Congratulations, Ira!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Mar </div>
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<div style="text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Research Affiliate,<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.mctd.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mctd.ac.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1701903187642000&usg=AOvVaw1xbBY7LJQMXL0OkuwNnTUk" data-outlook-id="bc50fa58-4594-4c3d-abe0-9fe052c5c853" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px">Centre
for Democracy and Technology</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, University of Cambridge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Member, Scholars' Council,<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.c2i2.ucla.edu/&source=gmail&ust=1701903187642000&usg=AOvVaw2XZsF6oTE-6qpBcvq5hsWp" data-outlook-id="4bbd4ff7-ab44-4750-b07d-ea8681e61dd1" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">Center
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Associate Editor,<span> </span><i><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an" title="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an" data-outlook-id="d8a55e52-9e8a-407d-8745-d30024e9fdcd" data-linkindex="3">IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing</a></i> (feel free to ask me about submitting an article if you work on a topic related to computing history)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left;margin:0px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><i><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="1972bce9-5062-43da-983b-2978d60203c7" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px">Programmed
Inequality</a></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><i>: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing<span> </span></i>(MIT Press, 2017)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><i><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-computer-fire" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="87c03515-9e1f-498e-83b8-0ce094518b05" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px">Your
Computer Is On Fire</a></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><i> </i> (MIT Press, 2021)</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 15, 2025 6:41:53 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] AHA Book Prize Winner</font>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space">The <a href="https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/american-historical-association-announces-2025-prize-winners/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNdAD5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE1bFU0aDJiSWd3Nm1tSnpvAR4yXPTUqy7mvA3tB9JHY2NMM2W2_40Vw89cVuklAf831L_V4x5caumMyLKOCw_aem_-tyK8bHVDWbvzaE16QMfDA">American
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<div>Ira Chinoy (Univ. of Maryland) for <i>Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting</i> (Potomac Books, 2024).</div>
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<div>We had the immense good fortune to have Ira here at the Computer History Museum at CHM for a Member’s Reception and Book Talk back in July, 2024.</div>
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<div>CHM is the global home for high-quality history of computing scholarship, events and programs.</div>
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<div>Bravo Ira!</div>
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