Dear colleagues,


If you or someone you know has published an article in 2009 dealing with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field­and this entails history of technology in its broadest sense­please consider nominating it for the IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History. Paper authors are encouraged to nominate themselves by submitting a copy of their article, and everyone is asked to submit notice of anything that they have seen published in 2009 that they feel is worthy of being considered for the Prize. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2010.

The official prize announcement appears below. For more information, please contact Andrew Butrica, Prize Committee Chair, at abutrica@earthlink.net, or W. Bernard Carlson, SHOT Secretary at shot@virginia.edu.

Andrew Butrica

Prize Committee Chair

THE IEEE LIFE MEMBERS’ PRIZE IN ELECTRICAL HISTORY

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Members’

Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology­power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science­published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy (paper or
electronic) of the article to each member of the prize committee. Deadline for the 2009 prize is April 15, 2010.

Andrew J. Butrica (chair)

Apt. 913-South

5225 Pooks Hill Road

Bethesda, MD 20814

abutrica@earthlink.net



Robert MacDougall

Department of History

University of Western Ontario

Social Science Centre 4328

London, Ontario N6A 5C2

CANADA

rmacdou@uwo.ca



Eden Medina

School of Informatics and Computing

Indiana University

901 E. 10th Street, Room 305

Bloomington, IN 47408

eden.medina@gmail.com