<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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></body></html>