Call for Submissions: 2012 Computer History Museum Book Prize
The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years. The prize of $1,000 is awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society. SIGCIS is part of the Society for the History of Technology.
In 2012 the prize was endowed in perpetuity through a generous bequest for the estate of Paul Baran, an innovator and entrepreneur best known for his work on packet switching and networks. Baran was a longtime supporter of the history of information technology and the prize celebrates the contributions of the Computer History Museum to that field.
2012 Call for Submissions
Books published in 2009-2011 are eligible for the 2012 award. Books in translation are eligible for three years following the date of their publication in English.
Publishers, authors, and other interested members of the computer history community are invited to nominate books. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below. To be considered, book submissions must be postmarked by 15 April 2012.
For more information, please contact the prize committee chair, Prof.
Jonathan Coopersmith (j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.edu).
Current information about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, can be found at:
2012 Prize Committee Members
Jonathan Coopersmith (Chair): Associate Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326 j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.edu
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn: CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne 28 rue Serpente,
75006 Paris, France mounier@msh-paris.fr
Rebecca Slayton: Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology Program, University of Minnesota, 108 Pillsbury Hall, 310 Pillsbury Drive Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55455 rslayton@umn.edu
Previous Winners
2009: Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006)
2010: Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2007)
2011: Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (The MIT Press, 2010).
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Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History of Technology Lewis Department of the Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL mhicks1@iit.edu
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