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• Runner-up for Ray and Pat Browne Award - Best Single Work by 1+ Authors 2019 (United States)

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A fascinating story of personal and social computing long before the advent of personal computers, the internet, and social media. A compelling challenge to the traditional male-dominated narrative of the importance of personal computers and ARPANET in laying the groundwork for today's digital world.--Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College Digital computers were brought to us by their inventors, a story frequently told. The digital revolution, in contrast, was brought to us by computer users, and that story--as vividly narrated by Joy Rankin in A People's History of Computing in the United States--deserves to be better known.--George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

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Joy Lisi Rankin leads the research program in Gender, Race, and Power in Artificial Intelligence at the AI Now Institute at New York University. She was a Contributing Editor for Lady Science and a consultant for the television show Girls Code and the documentaries The Birth of BASIC and The Queen of Code. She worked at the intersection of technology and education for over a decade. Her website is joyrankin.com.

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