{"id":406,"date":"2019-05-03T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:13:19","slug":"please-welcome-our-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/2019\/05\/03\/please-welcome-our-new-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Please welcome our new Chair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After approximately a year as chair of the Historic Computing Committee, I have come to the hard decision that I must step down in order to give more time to my other endeavours, not least my family and my PhD. I will continue to be involved in historic computing but in a more diminished capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We are very lucky that <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk\/t.astarte\/\">Troy Astarte<\/a>, Research in the history of Computing, has agreed to take on the role of chair going forward. Troy&#8217;s academic interest and skills are a fantastic asset for the committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There are some exciting developments just around the corner, watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After approximately a year as chair of the Historic Computing Committee, I have come to the hard decision that I must step down in order to give more time to my other endeavours, not least my family and my PhD. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/2019\/05\/03\/please-welcome-our-new-chair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}