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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Reminder: the deadline to nominate yourself for the SHOT Bernard S. Finn IEEE History prize is today. Procedures at <a href="https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-bernard-s-finn-ieee-history-prize/">https://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-bernard-s-finn-ieee-history-prize/</a>. Short version: all you have to do is email your paper <b>published in 2019</b> on any aspect of the history of computing (or other field of “electrical history”) to the three committee members. So it is not too late! Unlike some of the other SHOT prizes this has not been deferred for this year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I won it last year, with Mark Priestley, for our article “Colossus and Programmability” which appeared in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. You can read a copy at <a href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ColossusProgrammabilityWeb.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/ColossusProgrammabilityWeb.pdf</a>. It looks at what Colossus could and couldn’t do, with a historiographic dimension that asks “What does programmable even mean, anyway?” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That must be at least the 20<sup>th</sup> time I’ve sent something in for a SHOT prize and the first success. It’s not even an article I had high hopes for when I dispatched it to the committee. I basically submitted it out of habit. I’m proud of it, and all the analysis that underlies it (mostly Mark’s work), but as a technically informed piece of work focused on a specific machine it seemed to be swimming against the tide. Moral: if you’ve written something good send it in. You never know.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bonus: if you want to see something really inscrutable and technical, try our “Colossus: The Missing Manual” published last year in the Siegen University working paper series Media of Cooperation. <a href="https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/wp-content/uploads/WPS_10_Haigh.pdf">https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/wp-content/uploads/WPS_10_Haigh.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>