Dear All, 1. I am pleased to announced that Nathan Ensmenger has been appointed editor-in-chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. He will take office on January 1. Until then, feel free to send Annals ideas to both him and me. In any case, please continue to think of the Annals as a possible place for publication of your computing history research, either for peer-reviewed papers or for submissions to the departments (biographies, anecdotes, events & sightings, interviews, ...). 2. Walter Isaacson is in the Boston area promoting his Innovators book. He will be at a Harvard Book Store event (held in the Brattle Theater, I think). He was on WGBH radio today. On the radio, he said there would be a Grace Hopper Day at Harvard tomorrow (Saturday) and a panel on women in computing; see the introduction in italics at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/grace-hopper-computing-pioneer... 3. Edgar Daylight has published a new (100interview booklet of Knuth. It is available from Amazon. I read it last night and enjoyed it. There is a bit more in it about his debate with Martin Campbell-Kelly and a good bit more on his ideas about computing history, the definition of computer science, plenty of computing history to which he has been neear, etc. It is available from amazon.com. Best regards, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537 home ph=508-888-7655; cell ph = 503-757-3137 (often don't carry it) email address: dave@walden-family.com; website: <http://www.walden-family.com/bbn/>http://www.walden-family.com/