Hello everyone,

Please find below the call for nominations for our history of computing book prize. Last year’s went to Christophe Lecuyer for Inventing Silicon Valley. There’s a nice write up in the CBI newsletter: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article3.html.

Jen Light is chair of the prize committee this year, and Pierre Mounier-Kuhn joins the committee to replace Paul Ceruzzi. Tom Misa is now in his final year on the panel. Thanks to all of them for their service to SIGCIS. Jen has told me that to renominate a book submitted last year you or your publisher need send only ONE additional copy, to Pierre Mounier-Kuhn as the new committee member.

$1000 and a certificate could be yours!

Tom

THE 2010 CHM PRIZE CALL

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 $1000 is awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society. It is established through the generosity of an anonymous donor who wishes to honor the Computer History Museum. SIGCIS is part of the Society for the History of Technology.

Books published in 2007-2009 are now eligible for the 2010 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 15 April 2010. For more information, please contact the prize committee chair.

Current information about the prize may always be found at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=chmprize.

2010 Prize Committee Members

Jennifer S. Light (Chair)
Northwestern University
School of Communication
2240 Campus Drive, Room 2-152
Evanston, IL 60208-2952
light@northwestern.edu

Thomas J. Misa
Charles Babbage Institute
211 Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
tmisa@umn.edu

Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne
28 rue Serpente,
75006 Paris, France
mounier@msh-paris.fr