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<p class="MsoNormal">Hurrah!!! Chalk one up for Soviet history, which has so much to give us all, and its specialists!!! Congratulations on your wonderful book, Ben!!!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Barbara Walker</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">University of Nevada, Reno<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Ben Peters <bjpeters@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, October 22, 2018 at 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Andrew Russell <arussell@arussell.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"members@lists.sigcis.org" <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] CHM Prize for 2018: Ben Peters, How Not to Network a Nation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear SIGCIS Crew, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Andy! I’m flattered, humbled, and over the moon with this kind announcement. The book owes much to many in this community and its longstanding interests in comparative and critical computing history. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If interested, here is the 3000-word version: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faeon.co%2Fessays%2Fhow-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7C54ba8394ea8b40441c1008d63844f539%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=IyBLkilR2SNzMXJvBj68ctAvQdx3rP6zNLvZecTlamY%3D&reserved=0">https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ben <o:p></o:p></p>
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On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Russell <<a href="mailto:arussell@arussell.org">arussell@arussell.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s a pleasure to announce that the Computer History Museum Prize for 2018 has been awarded to Ben Peters for
<i>How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet</i> (MIT Press, 2016). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please visit <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigcis.org%2F2018chmprize&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7C54ba8394ea8b40441c1008d63844f539%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=L%2F4zizGD1wsywyBNEkhwpUmPIh14bY2B1KAIReEBOzQ%3D&reserved=0">https://www.sigcis.org/2018chmprize</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Benjamin Peters’s history of the Soviet Internet represents a pathbreaking contribution to the understanding of the history of computing and networking. Based on detailed empirical research in Russian archives, it extends the reach of these
histories into new, non-Anglo-American domains. In describing the complex institutional and political reasons for the ultimate failure of the All-State Automated Systems (OGAS), How Not to Network a Nation challenges common assumptions about the relationships
between decentralization, free markets, and electronic networking. Peters’s treatment of Soviet networking brings into sharper view the infrastructures, power relations, successes, and shortcomings of our own electronic networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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