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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Ok. It occurs to me that I should be willing to put my money where my mouth is. So my “money” is that I have been an editor of several volumes of collected papers by others. My “mouth” has been saying that we are a wonderfully insightful group of people who know a lot about stuff that the “citizenry” doesn’t no squat about. So, what if we were to put together a volume in which each of us (well, excepting me, of course) tries to explain, in citizen-talk, what s/he knows from programming that the world ought to know. My job will be, to the best of my ability, to defend the citizenry against your jargon. Each of you that writes a piece promises also to serve as a reviewer for one or two of your colleagues’ contributions. The job of “reviewer” will consist of protecting his or her author from over reach by the editor. I will write the “forward” and perhaps, with your help, a concluding chapter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What do you think. “Why on earth would I participate in this sort of academic bullshit?” Well, because you all have something interesting an important to say and this might be an occasion for you to say it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>