Congratulations, Ira!

Mar

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Mar Hicks

Associate Professor

School of Data Science

University of Virginia

marhicks@virginia.edu

marhicks.com

Research Affiliate, Centre for Democracy and Technology, University of Cambridge

Member, Scholars' Council, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, UCLA

Associate Editor, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (feel free to ask me about submitting an article if you work on a topic related to computing history)

Books:

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017)

Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press, 2021)

From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Dag Spicer via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 6:41:53 PM
To: members@lists.sigcis.org <members@lists.sigcis.org>
Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] AHA Book Prize Winner

The American Historical Association has just announced the winner of the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism:

Ira Chinoy (Univ. of Maryland) for Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting (Potomac Books, 2024).

We had the immense good fortune to have Ira here at the Computer History Museum at CHM for a Member’s Reception and Book Talk back in July, 2024.

CHM Live | Predicting the President: Origins of Computer Forecasting

youtube.com

CHM is the global home for high-quality history of computing scholarship, events and programs.

Bravo Ira!

Dag

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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View CA 94043

“History is a vast early warning system.”

— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).

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