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. eCheers,

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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.

eCheers,

Eileen Buckholtz

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Professor Gerardo Con Díaz has recently been promoted to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology Studies at UC, Davis! 

Additionally, his new book Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World 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!

Please join me in congratulating Con!!!

Best, Jeff

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Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. 

Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture

Research Professor, University of Minnesota

        

Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz) 

Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)

Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)

PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."

Blockchain & Society (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader)

Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)

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