<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear SIGCIS Crew, <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>If interested, here is the 3000-word version: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work">https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Ben </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://Benjaminpeters.org">Benjaminpeters.org</a></div><div>@bjpeters<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Russell <<a href="mailto:arussell@arussell.org">arussell@arussell.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Dear colleagues - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s a pleasure to announce that the Computer History Museum Prize for 2018 has been awarded to Ben Peters for <i class="">How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet</i> (MIT Press, 2016). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please visit <a href="https://www.sigcis.org/2018chmprize" class="">https://www.sigcis.org/2018chmprize</a> for details, including the prize citation, which I reproduce below. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a></span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>