<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">Dear colleagues - </p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">Please note the call for nominations for the Computer History Museum Prize is now open! The postmark deadline is May 15. Details are below and at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize</a>.</p><div class="">———— </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">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. </p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">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. </p><p class=""><br class=""><u class=""><strong class="">2017 Call for Submission</strong></u></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">Books published in 2014-2016 are
eligible for the 2017 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. Please note that books nominated in
previous years may be nominated again, provided they have been published
in the timeframes specified above. Send one copy of the nominated title
to each of the committee members listed below, with a postmark no later
than <strong class="">May 15, 2017.</strong> For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:jgallo@ida.org" class="">Jason Gallo</a>,
SIGCIS Vice Chair for Operations. Current information about the prize,
including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, always
may be found at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize</a>.<br class=""><br class=""> </p><p style="text-align: justify;" class=""><u class=""><strong class="">2017 Prize Committee Members</strong></u></p><ul class="">
<li style="text-align: justify;" class="">Joy Rankin (2017 Chair)<br class="">Lyman Briggs College<br class="">Michigan State University<br class="">919 E. Shaw Ln. E-35<br class="">East Lansing, MI 48825<br class="">USA<br class=""> </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;" class="">Janet Abbate<br class="">Dept. of Science, Technology and Society<br class="">Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center<br class="">7054 Haycock Road<br class="">Falls Church, VA 22043<br class="">USA<br class=""> </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;" class="">Hallam Stevens<br class="">Room 1705, 7/F wenke Building<br class="">China Center for Special Economic Zone Research, Shenzhen University<br class="">Nanhai Avenue 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 518060</li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">
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