<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings all - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SIGCIS is happy to announce the inaugural call for submissions for the Mahoney Prize, a new article prize in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. The following call for submissions is posted on our website at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize</a>. Please share this announcement widely! The information below is also available from the SIGCIS website at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize</a>, where you can find a pdf file of the prize announcement at the bottom of the page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Mahoney Prize recognizes an outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. The Mahoney Prize commemorates the late Princeton scholar Michael S.
Mahoney, whose profound contributions to the history of computing came
from his many articles and book chapters. The prize consists of a $500
award and a certificate. For the inaugural 2015 prize, articles
published in the preceding three years (2012, 2013, and 2014) are
eligible for nomination. The Mahoney Prize is awarded by the Special
Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) and is
presented during the annual meeting of our parent group, the Society for
the History of Technology.</div><p class="">The deadline for submission (electronic submissions preferred) to all
three Prize Committee members is <b class="">April 15, 2015</b>. For more information,
please contact the 2015 Mahoney Prize Committee Chair Prof. Jennifer
Light, <a href="mailto:jslight@mit.edu" class="">jslight@mit.edu</a>.</p><div class=""><p class=""><u class=""><strong class="">2015 Mahoney Prize Committee</strong></u>:</p><p class=""><strong class="">Ross Bassett </strong>(term ends 2015)<br class="">Associate Professor of History<br class="">Director, Benjamin Franklin Scholars<br class="">Department of History Box 8108<br class="">North Carolina State University<br class="">Raleigh, NC 27695 <a href="mailto:ross@ncsu.edu" class=""><br class="">ross@ncsu.edu</a></p><p class=""><strong class="">Jennifer S. Light, Chair</strong> (term ends 2016)<br class="">Professor of Science, Technology, and Society<br class="">Professor of Urban Studies and Planning<br class="">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br class="">77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-173<br class="">Cambridge, MA 02139<br class=""><a href="mailto:jslight@mit.edu" class="">jslight@mit.edu</a></p><p class=""><strong class="">James Cortada </strong>(term ends 2017)<br class="">Charles Babbage Institute<br class="">University of Minnesota<br class="">2917 Irvington Way<br class="">Madison, Wisconsin 53713 <a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" class=""><br class="">jcortada@umn.edu</a></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>