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.
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.
2015 Call for Submissions
Books published in 2012-2014 are eligible for the 2015 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. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below. To be considered, book submissions must be postmarked by May 15, 2015. For more information, please contact Prof. Joseph November, the 2015 prize committee chair, at november@sc.edu. Current information about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, may always be found at http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize.
2015 Prize Committee Members
Previous Winners