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<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify">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="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify">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 style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u><strong>2018 Call for Submission</strong></u></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify">Books published in 2015-2017 are eligible for the 2018 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<span> </span><strong>April 30, 2018.</strong><span> </span>For more information, please contact<span> </span><a href="mailto:arussell@arussell.org" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(40,131,222)">Andrew Russell</a>, SIGCIS Chair. 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" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(40,131,222)">http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize</a>.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify"><u><strong>2018 Prize Committee Members</strong></u></p><ul style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.25em 2.5em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"PT Sans",HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="text-align:justify">Hallam Stevens (2018 Chair)<br>School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University<br>14 Nanyang Drive #05-07<br>Singapore 637332<br> </li><li style="text-align:justify">Janet Abbate<br>Dept. of Science, Technology and Society<br>Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center<br>7054 Haycock Road<br>Falls Church, VA 22043<br>USA<br> </li><li style="text-align:justify">Rebecca Slayton<br>Department of Science & Technology Studies<br>Morrill 320<br>Cornell University<br>Ithaca, NY 14853<br>USA</li></ul>

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