<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 class=""><span style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">Dear colleagues - </span></p><div class="" style="font-family: Lato-Regular;">Last weekend at the SHOT and SIGCIS meeting in Philadelphia, the winner of the 2017 Mahoney Prize was announced. I’m delighted to share that news and the prize citation with this list. Congratulations Erica Robles-Anderson and Patrik Svensson!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class=""><strong class=""><u class="">Winner: </u></strong></p><p class="">Erica Robles-Anderson and Patrik Svensson. <a href="http://computationalculture.net/2016/01/11/one-damn-slide-after-another-powerpoint-at-every-occasion-for-speech/" class="">“’One Damn Slide After Another’: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech.”</a> <em class="">Computational Culture</em> (January 15, 2016). </p><p class=""><strong class=""><u class="">Prize Citation:</u></strong></p><p class="">In “’One Damn Slide After Another’: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for
Speech,” Erica Robles-Anderson and Patrik Svensson provide a highly
original and insightful history of PowerPoint’s design, development, and
use. They convincingly argue how PowerPoint has become a dominant and
indispensable medium for communication, yet like many other forms of
ubiquitous software programs and packages it has undergone minimal
critical analysis. As such, the conditioning of knowledge production
with PowerPoint is overlooked, and once distinct situations and settings
such as classrooms, press conferences, and church sermons become more
alike. Overall, their article stands out for astutely engaging with
communication theory, as well as making significant IT history and
historiographical contributions by analyzing PowerPoint within the
context of precursor technologies such as the DuPont Chart Room, white
boards, and overhead projectors.</p><div class=""><u class=""><strong class="">About the Mahoney Prize:</strong></u></div><p 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 2017 prize, articles published in the preceding
three years (2014, 2015, and 2016) 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.</p><div class=""><span style="font-family: Lato-Regular;" class="">For more information and list of previous winners, please visit: </span><font face="Lato-Regular" class=""><a href="http://www.sigcis.org/node/405" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/node/405</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>