Hi all, We are "finalizing" the language for this year's ACM history travel- grant / fellowship. Please be looking for an announcement, on this list, in the next day or so. Two awards will be offered ($2500 and $5000). Deadline will most likely be ***30 April 2010*** Broadly, it will resemble LAST year's award. You can see the details from LAST YEAR still posted on the ACM-HC website -- but do **NOT** take this as directions for this year's competition! (Indeed, read THIS year's announcement carefully.) Remember, ACM is interested in promoting its own history. Last year, with awards to Irina Nikiforova and Bernard Geoghegan [see below], the history committee was very pleased to sponsor high-quality scholarly research that engages ACM's history. This year's competition will have a similar focus. It happened that last year's awards went to two junior (graduate student) scholars. But that is not any precedent or iron-clad preference. Best, Tom ---------------------------------------------------------- FROM LAST YEAR: http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship.php The Association for Computer Machinery's History Committee is [announced] the two winners of its inaugural [2009] fellowship in ACM history: Irina Nikiforova, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology and Society, for her dissertation project entitled "ACM, Turing Award Scientists, and their Web of Affiliations." Nikiforova will examine archival materials held at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the Charles Babbage Institute as well as online ACM materials concerning the Turing Award. Bernard Geoghegan a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University and Bauhaus University - Weimar, for a specific project on "Staging the ACM Chess Championships" which will draw on archival materials presently in private hands. Geoghegan plans a journal article from this research as well as a museum exhibit.