[SIGCIS-Members] ACM history fellowship (announcement coming very soon)

[Thomas Misa]

Hi all,

We are "finalizing" the language for this year's ACM history travel- 
grant / fellowship.  Please be looking for an announcement, on this  
list, in the next day or so.  Two awards will be offered ($2500 and  
$5000).  Deadline will most likely be ***30 April 2010***

Broadly, it will resemble LAST year's award.  You can see the details  
from LAST YEAR still posted on the ACM-HC website -- but do **NOT**  
take this as directions for this year's competition!  (Indeed, read  
THIS year's announcement carefully.)

Remember, ACM is interested in promoting its own history.  Last year,  
with awards to Irina Nikiforova and Bernard Geoghegan [see below], the  
history committee was very pleased to sponsor high-quality scholarly  
research that engages ACM's history.  This year's competition will  
have a similar focus.  It happened that last year's awards went to two  
junior (graduate student) scholars.  But that is not any precedent or  
iron-clad preference.

Best, Tom
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                               FROM LAST YEAR:

http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship.php

The Association for Computer Machinery's History Committee is  
[announced] the two winners of its inaugural [2009] fellowship in ACM  
history:

Irina Nikiforova, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech's School of History,  
Technology and Society, for her dissertation project entitled "ACM,  
Turing Award Scientists, and their Web of Affiliations." Nikiforova  
will examine archival materials held at Stanford University, the  
University of Michigan, and the Charles Babbage Institute as well as  
online ACM materials  concerning the Turing Award.

Bernard Geoghegan a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University and  
Bauhaus University - Weimar, for a specific project on "Staging the  
ACM Chess Championships" which will draw on archival materials  
presently in private hands. Geoghegan plans a journal article from  
this research as well as a museum exhibit.