[SIGCIS-Members] Call for Submissions: 2012 Computer History Museum Book Prize

[Marie Hicks]

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 at neo.tamu.edu).

Current information about the prize, including the most recent call
and a list of previous winners, can be found at:
http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize.

2012 Prize Committee Members

Jonathan Coopersmith (Chair): Associate Professor Department of
History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326
j-coopersmith at neo.tamu.edu

Pierre Mounier-Kuhn: CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne 28 rue Serpente,
75006 Paris, France mounier at 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 at 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 at iit.edu
twitter: @histoftech
www.mariehicks.net