<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Dag! Doing that book talk at CHM last year was great fun, and I loved how engaged the audience was - including the live callers! So thanks again for having me.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ira </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 15, 2025, at 6:42 PM, Dag Spicer via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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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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<div>Dag</div>
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Dag Spicer<br>
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Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing<br>
ACM History Committee<br>
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