<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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="">Please help SIGCIS share this announcement widely (email lists, social media, etc).</div><div class=""><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">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="text-align: justify;" class="">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 class=""><u class=""><strong class="">2019 Call for Submission</strong></u></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="">Books published in 2016-2018 are
eligible for the 2019 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 at <a href="https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize" class="">https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize</a>, with a postmark no later
than <strong class="">April 30, 2019.</strong> For more information, please
contact the Committee Chair, Prof. Rebecca Slayton. 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" class="">http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize</a>.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Many thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy Russell </div><div class="">SIGCIS Chair</div></body></html>