Dear colleagues -
[Please help us to circulate this call widely, including on mailing lists, social media, and directly to authors and publishers of books about computer history, broadly defined.]
Books published in 2019, 2020, and 2021 are eligible for the 2022 prize.
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. Please note that books nominated in previous years may be
nominated again, provided they have been published in the timeframes
specified above. Please send
digital and physical copies of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed at
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize, with a postmark no later than
May 15, 2022. Please direct any questions to the 2022 committee chair, Jean Kumagai.
About the Computer History Museum Prize
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.
Many thanks,
Andy