[SIGCIS-Members] 2024 Computer History Museum Prize nominations due April 15

[Elizabeth Petrick]

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.


2024 Nomination instructions

Books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize. 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. Please note that books nominated in previous years may be nominated again, provided they have been published in the timeframes specified above. Please send digital and physical copies of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below, with a postmark no later than April 15, 2024. Please direct any questions to the 2024 committee chair, David Brock, dbrock at computerhistory.org<mailto:dbrock at computerhistory.org>.


2024 Prize Committee Members

David Brock (Committee Chair, physical copies of books preferred)

Director of Curatorial Affairs, Computer History Museum

40 Russell Street

Greenfield, MA 01301

dbrock at computerhistory.org<mailto:dbrock at computerhistory.org>



Nathan Ensmenger

Associate Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Indiana University

Informatics East 226a

901 E. 10th St.

Bloomington, IN 47408

nensmeng at indiana.edu<mailto:nensmeng at indiana.edu>



Mar Hicks (physical copies of books preferred)

Associate Professor of Data Science

UVA Data Science

400 Brandon Ave

Charlottesville, VA 22903

mhicks at virginia.edu<mailto:mhicks at virginia.edu>


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