Hello everyone, Here's a reminder of two things. First, SHOT has travel funding to help the needy attend its annual meeting. Preference is given to graduate students giving a paper or commenting, but funding may also be available for post docs and travelers from outside the US, Canada, and Western Europe. http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/travelgrants.html. The deadline for applications is soon - JUNE 1. You have to be a SHOT member to apply. Second, SIGCIS has supplemental travel funds for graduate students presenting on history of computing topics. We hope to make at least two awards of around $300 each. SHOT's application procedure is already rather complicated, and in the interests of fairness and convenience we decided to coordinate with the SHOT committee so that our funds complement the main awards. The full details on our award scheme, the Michael S. Mahoney/MIT Press Graduate Student Travel Awards, are available at http://www.sigcis.org/?q=travelaward. But basically you apply via SHOT with the full details but additionally send your name, paper title, and affiliation to secretary@sigcis.org. Participants in SIGCIS sponsored sessions will receive priority but we'll also try to balance things to support people for whom the regular SHOT fund can provide little or no money. There's a twist to this. As I mentioned before, SIGCIS is holding its own workshop in conjunction with SHOT this October. It will be a full day event on the Sunday (October 18). Because we're disorganized slackers the CFP still didn't go out yet, though it should arrive in the next two days. We'd like to get lots of graduate students participating, and are calling for a session on dissertations in progress (feedback on dissertation proposals) and for pre-circulation of works in progress (including draft chapters). So grad students interested in the workshop and in the SHOT and SIGCIS funding possibilities will need to keep an eagle eye out for the CFP, pounce on it, and get their abstracts to us by May 28 so we can do a lightning fast review process in time for them to apply for the travel funding. Sorry for the inconvenience, but you leave everything to the last minute anyway, right ;-). The travel grants are supported in part by donations to the SIGCIS Mahoney Fund. See details and a list of current donors at www.sigcis.org?q=mahoney. They are also supported by cash donations at the annual business meeting and by the proceeds of the book auction, including a large contribution of books from MIT Press. Tom