[SIGCIS-Members] 2026 Computer History Museum Prize nominations due April 30

[Elizabeth Petrick]

Dear SIGCIS,


I'm happy to announce that nominations are now open for the 2026 Computer
History Museum Prize. We're following the same procedure as last year,
collecting nominations on a Google form, which will then provide nominators
with the mailing addresses for the committee.


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.


*2026 Nomination instructions*

Books published in 2023, 2024, and 2025 are eligible for the 2026 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 fill out the Google Form and then send both digital and physical
copies of the nominated title to each of the committee members, with a
postmark no later than *April 30, 2026*. After you complete the Google
Form, you will be shown a confirmation page with the committee members'
addresses. Please remember to copy down the addresses! If you run into
technical problems, please contact me. Please direct any other questions to
the 2026 committee chair, Mar Hicks, mhicks at virginia.edu.


*Google Form*

https://forms.gle/Yde1aafWsgvgXhjp7


*2026 CHM Prize Committee Members*
Mar Hicks (Chair)
Iván Chaar López
Cassius Adair


All the best,
Liz Petrick
SIGCIS  Co-Chair
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Elizabeth Petrick
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
Rice University
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