Hello SIGCIS Friends!

I’d like to invite all members to consider submitting a nomination for a CHM Fellow Award for someone they feel has made a big impact in computing. Candidates can come from academia, industry, media, business… or none of those things: 2008 CHM Fellow Linus Torvalds, for example, the inventor of Linux, was barely out of grad school when he was recognized for his work.

CHM Fellow Awards recognize individuals who embody the following characteristics:

1.     The candidate’s work is of a foundational nature that has strongly influenced the intellectual, disciplinary, or industrial underpinnings of computing. 

2.     The candidate’s work resulted in a new direction, or significantly changed the evolutionary path of computing. 

3.     The candidate’s work advanced the adoption of computing by successfully applying research results in an industry, business, or product, or by applying computing technology in society in a new and significant way. 

4.     The candidate’s work advanced the understanding and adoption of computing through education or promotional activity.

Our first CHM Fellow (1987) was Grace Murray Hopper, and one of our most recent was the amazing Margaret Hamilton of NASA / Apollo fame. (And before that, Katherine Johnson, the original ‘hidden figure.’) Others include Gordon Moore, Steve Wozniak, Jensen Huang, Morris Chang, Doug Engelbart, Vint Cerf, Alan Kay … have a look at our Hall of Fellows for the entire list: https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/

Nominations are just a page with the option to add scholarly references, papers, recommendation letters, and a c.v. But it’s meant to be a lightweight process to encourage participation.

Information on the CHM Fellow Awards, including the online nomination form, is available here: https://computerhistory.org/fellow-awards-nomination-form/?alias=nominations

Deadline is October 31, 2026.

Thanks for considering everyone: we hope to hear from you!

All the best,

Dag