[SIGCIS-Members] CHM Prize for 2018: Ben Peters, How Not to Network a Nation

[Ian S. King]

I'm looking forward to reading this to compare and contrast with Janet
Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet'.  There's as much (if not more) to learn
from failure as from success.  -- Ian

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Ben Peters <bjpeters at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear SIGCIS Crew,
>
> Thank you, Andy! I’m flattered, humbled, and over the moon with this  kind
> announcement. The book owes much to many in this community and its
> longstanding interests in comparative and critical computing history.
>
> If interested, here is the 3000-word version:
>
> https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-
> internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work
>
> Best,
>
> Ben
>
> Benjaminpeters.org
> @bjpeters
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Russell <arussell at arussell.org>
> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues -
>
> It’s a pleasure to announce that the Computer History Museum Prize for
> 2018 has been awarded to Ben Peters for *How Not to Network a Nation: The
> Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet* (MIT Press, 2016).
>
> Please visit https://www.sigcis.org/2018chmprize for details, including
> the prize citation, which I reproduce below.
>
> Benjamin Peters’s history of the Soviet Internet represents a pathbreaking
> contribution to the understanding of the history of computing and
> networking. Based on detailed empirical research in Russian archives, it
> extends the reach of these histories into new, non-Anglo-American domains.
> In describing the complex institutional and political reasons for the
> ultimate failure of the All-State Automated Systems (OGAS), How Not to
> Network a Nation challenges common assumptions about the relationships
> between decentralization, free markets, and electronic networking. Peters’s
> treatment of Soviet networking brings into sharper view the
> infrastructures, power relations, successes, and shortcomings of our own
> electronic networks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy
>
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-- 
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens

Principal Investigator, "Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change",
UW IRB #42619

Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>

University of Washington

There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
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