Hi! Lee was very gracious in describing my new book project…and he pretty much nailed it. I’m hoping to use a selection of books published after 1945 as windows into the histories of computing, technology, publishing. The project’s under contract with MIT Press and, with archives slowly opening up, I’m hoping to do a few final research trips and polish it off. We’ll see… Patrick -- W. Patrick McCray Professor, Department of History COORDINATES: Department of History University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410 Phone (office): (805) 893-2665 Web (official): http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=14 Web (personal): http://www.patrickmccray.com <http://www.patrickmccray.com/> Twitter: @LeapingRobot <https://twitter.com/leapingrobot?lang=en> My new book - Making Art Work <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-art-work> - is out with The MIT Press

On Mar 17, 2022, at 10:12 AM, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, bud. I doubt you'll learn anything from the various responses this email has received, but I wanted to make you aware of it in case you miss it otherwise.

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I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.

Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.

Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.) Are there existing papers on this subject?

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