Computer History Museum Prize 2015 - Call for Submissions
Dear all,
The 2015 call for submissions for our Computer History
Museum book prize is online at http://sigcis.org/chmprize
and pasted below.
Please spread the word. Also remember that there is a
three year window. This window this year is for books with first publication in
English in 2012, 2013, or 2014.
We are particularly glad that Joy Rankin has agreed to
join the jury this year. Please address any questions to this year’s chair,
Joseph November.
Best,
David Nofre
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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.
2015 Call for Submissions
Books published in 2012-2014 are eligible for the 2015
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 May 15, 2015. For more
information, please contact Prof. Joseph November, the 2015 prize committee
chair, at november@sc.edu. 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.
2015 Prize Committee Members
David Nofre
Kleyn
Proffijtlaan 47
Oegstgeest
2343DB
The Netherlands
Joseph A.
November (2015 Chair)
Associate
Professor and McCausland Fellow
Department of
History
University of
South Carolina
817 Henderson
Street
Gambrell Hall,
Room 245
Columbia, SC
29208
USA
Joy Rankin
27 Wheeler St.
#323
Cambridge, MA
02138
USA
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)
2013: Joseph A.
November, Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2012)
2014: Janet
Abbate, Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (MIT
Press, 2012)