Here’s an announcement covering one highlight of our recent annual meeting. More updates soon. Thanks to the prize committee and all who submitted their work. Tom Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2007) SHOT SIGCIS this year awards its Computer History Museum Prize for an outstanding book on the history of computing to Atsushi Akera's Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press 2007). This ambitious and theoretically-sophisticated study is both a history of mid-century computing and a history of an emerging infrastructure for Cold War research in the U.S. From wartime work on ENIAC, to the development of time-sharing at MIT and Michigan, to IBM's entry into technical computing, the impressively researched case studies in each chapter revisit well-known episodes in computing history as part of a much larger story. Akera's interest in the productive tensions that animated the work of the military-industrial-academic complex -- extending existing scholarship in this area -- undergirds a grounded theory of innovation that will shape future work in our field. We believe the book's treatment of core episodes in computing history as well as its "ecology of knowledge" perspective will find a wide audience. 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. 2010 Prize Committee Members Jennifer S. Light (Chair) Northwestern University Thomas J. Misa Charles Babbage Institute Pierre Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne