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Over the years, I've interviewed a lot of people from all walks of life who have had some connection to the PLATO phenomenon or the computer-based education (CBE) and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) fields. In fact I've gone back even further than that, to talk to people who built mechanical teaching machines and programmed instructional texts. As you'll no doubt note in the list below, I've also talked to many non-PLATO folk who have written about the future of education, computer-mediated communications (CMC), or business and technology, or who had some kind of involvement with computing, education, programmed instruction, or other field that's relevant to the overall PLATO story. Here's a list of some of the people I've been in contact with since 1985 for information for the book: Achenbach, Mike Adams, Sam Albert, Alix (Gaby) Alesandrini, Kathryn (Lutz) Alfille, Paul Alix, Chris Allen, David Allen, Mike Alpert, Daniel Anastasio, Ernest Anderson, John Anderson, David Anderson, Richard C. Anderson, Thomas H. Andrews, Tanner Anner, Amotz Annis, David Anthony, Andy Appel, Andrew Appleman, Don Arora, Brij Artman, Eric Asimov, Issac Ask, Tom Aspnes, Chip Atkinson, Richard Atkisson, M.S. Au, Wagner James Avner, Allen Aylward, Pat Baeder, Scott Baerg, Ron Bahnfleth, Bill Baker, Charles Baker, Cheryl (Eklund) Banks, Frederick Z. Barnes, Quentin Barnett, David Bartle, Richard A. Bartosh, Michael J. Bauer, Jeff Baum, Mark "Adam" Baumann, Kurt Baverman, Rhona Beckman, Marilyn Behmer, Carl Bell, Brian Benford, Gregory Bentley, Michael B. Benveniste, Mike Bentley, Michael Brian Berdahl, Robert Berg, Rudy Berger, Mike Bittner, John Bitzer, David Bitzer, Don Bitzer, Earle Bitzer, Maryann Bitzer, Mary Ruth Bitzer, Sandy Blackmore, Brian Blahut, Richard Blair, Doulas Laine Blomme, Rick Boeser, Mark Boland, Nick Bordelon, Eugene P. Booch, Grady Bork, Alfred Borowski, Ben Boros, Frank Borton, Lyle Boucher, Lisa Boudreaux, Martha Bowe, Marisa Bowery, Jim Boysen, Pete Brain, Jim Brannon, Craig Brennan, Mark Bressen, Andrew K. Brightbill, David Brinati, Tony Brock, Geoffrey Brown, Doug Brown, Gary Brown, John Seely Brown, Mary Brown, Richard M. Brownlee, Joe Bruce, Bertram Chip Brummer, Richard Bruning, Walter Brush, Leif Bryan, John Brymer, Art Buckingham, John L. Buckmaster, Rick Bucksath, Jerry Bunderson, C. Victor Burr, Garrie Burson, Craig Burton, Gary Butler, Michael Campbell, L. Leon Canter, Marc Capshew, James Card, Jim Carmack, John Carroll, Christine Batakis Carter, Bruce Carter, Soji Carter, George Casella, Darren Chabay, Ruth Chapple, Cully Charp, Sylvia Chirolas, Darlene Christ, Frank Churches, David Clifford, Pat Cochran, Mike Cohen, Al Cohen, "Eddie" Cohen, Jeff Cohen, Stephen P. Cole, Bill Cole, Corey Compton, W. Dale Connelly, Don Conway, Ted Corey, Jeff Corielle, Priscilla (Obertino) Crawford, Chris Crockett, David Crooks, Rich Cundiff, John Dallas, Andy Daleske, John Damberger, Bernard Daniel, David E. Deiss, Steve Deliganis, Tom DeLoughry, Thomas Denenberg, Stewart Dennis, Carl Dennis, David Denton, Sam DePlonty, Tom Desatnick, Diane Desmond, Jack Deustch, William di Sessa, Andrew Dierschow, Dean Dona, Orlando J. Downey, Eric Dumoulin, Jim Duncombe, Kevet Dunn, Wesley DuPont, Natalie Dutcher, Jim Duvall, Kim Eastom, Mark Ebert, Roger Eichmann, Ernst Eisenberg, J. David Elmore, Robert Ekblaw, Richard A. Fahlman, Scott E. Fairweather, Peter Faust, Gerry Felty, J. Michael Feurzieg, Wallace Fillman, Lee Fincher, Brad Fine, Steve Fitch, Chester Fleming, Declan Fletcher, Estelle Fletcher, J. Dexter Flinsch, Jim Folk, Michael Forsyth, Bill Fortner, Brand Fortner, Monica Francis, Larry Frankel, David Frankel, Marvin Fratini, Bob Freyder, Stephen Friedman, H. George Friedrich, Duane D. Frishberg, Mort Frishberg, Sue Fritz, Gary Frye, G. David Fuerstenberg, Jim Fumento, David Futrelle, David Galenorn, Samwise Gaede, Owen Galcher, Bill Garceau, Paul Gardner, Sean Gee, Stephen Genco, Louis V. Geyer, Melanie Ghesquiere, Jim Gibbons, Andrew Gillies, Don Gillman, Joel S. Gilomen, Brian Gilpin, John Giourdas, John Gladding, G. Glaser, Robert Glish, Jim Goldberg, Adele Golden, William Goldhor, Richard Goldman, Jack Goldwasser, Edwin (Ned) Gooch, Sherwin Gorback, Mike Gorey, Kevin Grabowski, Barbara Grajewski, Barb Graper, David Grattan, Dave Gray, Steve Green, Doug Green, Jay Green, William Greenberg, Andrew Grillot, Tom Grimes, George Grohne, Tom Groupe, Alan Grunau, Justin Guilford, Rochelle Gunsalus, C.K. Gutierrez, Lenny Hagstrom, Eric Haken, Lippold Hall, Ed Hallberg, Steve Haltiwanger, John Halvorsen, Tim Handel, Jonathan Hannan, Cecil Hanson, Andrew Harkrader, Al Harstad, Ron Hart, Michael S. Hart, Shawn Harvey, Miles Haycraft, David Haynes, Mark Hazlewood, Rick Herriman, Carole Hendricks, Harold Hess, Karl Hill, Jock Hofstetter, Fred Hofstetter, Laura Hoover, Lenny Hopkins, Lara Horne, Jim Hoski, Valli Hresil, Charles Hubel, Bob Hunter, Beverly Hunter, Tom Huston, Jeff Hyde, Daniel C. Insinga, Aron K. Jacobs, Mike Jacobson, Bryna Lee Janusz, Greg Jarecki, Eugene Jarecki, Henry Jarecki, Gloria Johansen, Bob Johnson, Chris Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Keith Johnson, Lee Johnson, James Johnson, Mark A. Johnson, Roger Jones, Douglas W. Jones, Jeremy Kane, Dennis Kaplan, Samuel Kapor, Mitch Karlsson, Goran Karraker, Kent Katz, Milton Kaven, Luke Kawell, Len Kay, Alan Kearsley, Greg Keefe, B Kehrli, Mark Keller, Andrew Keller, Elaine Kidd, Kaywin Kiester, Tom Killion, Rayburn Kirkpatrick, Greg Klass, Ron Kohlmiller, Paul Kolar, Christopher Kolstad, Rob Koning, Paul Kopf, D.A. Koteles, Colin Kovacs, Diane Knoke, Jim Kraatz, Celia Kraatz, Jim Krasny, Michael Krasovec, Neil Krause, Peter Kravitz, Jody Kubat, Richard Kulas, Mike Kutell, Fred Kutzko, Mitch Kuznetsov, Helen Lamont, Valarie Lampe, Carol Lampe, John Lappe, Murray Lassner, David Lawrance, David Lawrence, Andy Layman, Sheridan Layman, Tom Leach, Lauren Leach, Ted Lebowitz, Robert Lendt, David L. Leonard, George LePage, David Levine, Rick Levy, Alan Lichtenberger, Wayne W. Liebman, Judith Limber, John Lincoln, Sean Lionel, Steve Lipper, Arthur Lipper, Greg Lipsitz, Howard Lipsitz, Larry Lisansky, Terry Little, Todd Lockard, Brodie Loeb, Eric Loitz, Gary Long, Harvey Lopez, Chris Lopez, Ken Lucado, Scott Ludwig, Phyllis (Hall) Luehrmann, Arthur Lundberg, Mark Lyman, Tebby Lynch, Bill Macdonald, Roger Macinnis, Peter Maggs, Bruce Maggs, Peter Ozer, Ron Ozzie, Ray Pake, George Paley, Josh Maes, Eddie Mahan, Kurt Manton, Jonathan Manzi, Jim Mapother, Dillon Marcy, Scott Margolin, Jed Marino, Charles F. Marley, Rosalie (Dietrich) Martin, David Martin, Paul Martz, Ted Mast, Phil Matheny, John McCormick, Melissa Dammeyer McGinty, Brendan McLaughlin, Jude McQuown, Rob McWilliams, Erik Meadors, Terry Medford, Russell Medved, Mike Melmed, Arthur Merrill, M. David Midden, Marshall Miller, Beth Ann Miller, Chuck Miller, David Miller, Joe Milosevich, Sam Moe, Robert A. Molnar, Andrew Montague, William Moore, Carl Morgan, Catherine Morris, Bob Mortensen, Ron Morton, A. Kent Mudrick, David Munitz, Barry Murphy, Mike A. Myers, George B. Nelson, Don (Black) Nelson, Ted Neumann, Mary Ann Niederman, Bob Niedfeldt, Jon Nievergelt, Jurg Nordberg, Steve Nordin, Mats Norris, William Nortrup, Kevin Nuzzo, Sal O'Brien, Mike O'Brien, Terry O'Connell, Brian M. O'Hara, John O'Hara, Mike Oberlin, Dan Oettinger, Anthony Okonski, Steve Olivier, Michael Osterhoff, Kevin Ozer, Ron Ozzie, Ray Pake, George Paley, Josh Paley, Nina Papamarcos, Mark Papert, Seymour Parrello, Bruce Payne, Jim Pellett, Dirk Pellett, Flint Peltason, Jack Peltz, Steve Pence, Glenn Perra, Dean Petrina, Stephen Peyser, Frederick Piven, Don Pfeffer, Scott Philhower, Bob Platt, Robert C. Polus, Cindy Pondy, Dorothy Powers, Richard Price, Robert M. Propst, Frank Pruyne, Peter D. R., Andy Rader, Bob Raether, Manfred Rahder, Max Rankaitis, Susan Rashid, Rick Redman, Brian Reeves, Dan D. Reichenbach, Rick Reichenborn, Bill Reid, Alex Resch, Paul M. Rhodes, Steve Ridgely, Pat Risser, Nancy Ritchey, Grant Robertson, Paul E. Robinson, Alaine (Warfield) Rodby, Mike Rohner, Dan Roper, Bill Rose, Steve Ross, CJ Ross, Robb Rotberg, Eric Rothenberg, Andrew Rothenberg, Randall Rowan, Mary M. Runte, Dave Russell, George A. Saar, Donna Sachs, Jonathan Salmons, Jim Satchell, Stephen Sawdey, Aaron Schaeffer, Bill Schaefges, Tom Schampel, Grant Schoeller, Dave Schow, Peter Schramm, Jeff Schroeder, Robert Schultz, Donald Schutt, Steve Schwager, Michael Scott, Bill Scuro, Vince Sebby, Paul Seeley, Joseph Segre, Alberto Maria Seiler, Bonnie Anderson Seitz, Chris Shaffer, Gary Shaffer, Leslie Shankman, Brian Shapira, Andrew Shears, Brian Sheppard, Bill Sherman, Larry Sherwin, Chalmers Sherwood, Anton Sherwood, Bruce Sherwood, Judy Sherwood, Kaitlin Shirer, Don Sides, David Sides, Laurene (Ragona) Siegel, Marty Silver, Paul Singh, Lisa Simkin, Rick Sjodin, Henrk Skaperdas, Dominic Skinner, B.F. Slottow, Irene Slovin, Jeffrey Small, David Smith, Anthony Smith, Shannon K.E. Smith, Stan Smith, Vernon Smith, Walter Snellen, Jim Snow, Joel A. Solomon, Cynthia Soloway, Elliott Sonna, Larry Sproull, Robert L. Stabosz, Rae Stainton, Bill Stake, Robert Starkweather, John Stawicki, Rich Steele, Alfred Steinberg, Esther Steinberg, Lou Steinberger, David Steinberger, Rob Stephenson, Neal Stetten, Ken Stevens, Robin Stifle, Jack Stolurow, Lawrence Stoltz, Ben Stone, Maureen Stover, Lawrence Strang, Jeffrey Strickland, Scott Stubbs, Patrick Suess, Jack Suhre, Maurice E. Suppes, Patrick Susman, Rachael (Preiss) Sutherland, Alistair Swanson, Bob Swanson, Scott Syfrig, Nathan Szabo, Mike Tabin, Joshua Tall, Dave Tanaka, David Taub, Jack Taylor, Dick Taylor, Frank Teitelbaum, Dan Tenczar, Paul Thaler, Jonathan Thomasson, Jim Thompson, Tim Tobias, Jim Tomasic, Anthony Trick, Timothy Tripp, Dan Trowbridge, David Trueblood, Jim Truss, Earl Tucker, Paul Turkle, Sherry Turoff, Murray Twiss, Phil Twiss, Richard Umpleby, Stuart Unger, James M. Urbanckas, Al & Diane van Dijk, Wendy Vetter, Steve Volcheck, Emil Volpp, Louis D. Walczak, Daniel Walker, Bill Walker, Mike Warner, Silas Warren, Chuck Warren, Greg Watanabe, Nan Watts, Marcus Weast, Gordon Weatherford, Harriett Wei, Mike Weikart, Scott Weir, Morton Weissman, Jessica Weyer, Steve Whaley, Ken Whisenhunt, Gary White, Larry Wickham, Charlie Wicklund, Tom Widitz, Ron Wilkin, Claude Williams, Dan Williams, Mike Williams, Tom Willson, Robert H. Wilson, George Wayne Winter, Susan Witz, Erik K. Wolfe, R.J. Wood, Marilyn Wood, Ray Woodhead, Robert Woods, Jim Woolley, David Wostenberg, Alan Wright, Kim Yang, Allen Young, Laura M. Zaffron, Andy Zarnowski, Paul Zebrowski, George Zelchenko, Matt Zelchenko, Peter Ziegler, Dave Zingg, Roy Zinn, Karl