2013 Call for Submissions, Computer History Museum Prize
2013 Call for Submissions, Computer History Museum 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 from the estate of Paul Baran, a legendary computer innovator
and entrepreneur best known for his work to develop and promote the packet
switching approach on which modern networks are built. Baran was a longtime
supporter of work on the history of information technology and named the prize
to celebrate the contributions of the Computer History Museum to that field.
2013 Call for Submissions
Books published in 2010-2012 are eligible for the 2013
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 30 April 2013. For more
information, please contact the prize committee chair. Current information
about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners,
may always be found at http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize.
2013 Prize Committee Members
Rebecca Slayton (chair): Lecturer in Public Polic,
Stanford University, 616 Serra Street, Stanford, CA 94305-6055.
David Nofre: Research Affiliate, Centre d'Estudis
d'Història de la Ciència at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Send books
to him at Kleyn Proffijtlaan 47, 2343DB Oegstgeest, Netherlands d.nofre@gmail.com
Jonathan Coopersmith: Associate Professor Department of
History, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326 j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.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 (MIT Press, 2010).
2012: Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology
and Politics in Allende's Chile (MIT Press, 2011).
Edward A Benoit, III
PhD Candidate
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee