2025 Mahoney Prize nominations
Dear SIGCIS, Nominations are now open for the 2025 Mahoney Prize. The Mahoney Prize recognizes an outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. The Mahoney Prize commemorates the late Princeton scholar Michael S. Mahoney, whose profound contributions to the history of computing came from his many articles and book chapters. The prize consists of a $500 award and a certificate. For the 2025 prize, articles published in the preceding three years (2022, 2023, and 2024) are eligible for nomination. The Mahoney Prize is awarded by the Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS). We plan to present the prize at the annual SIGCIS meeting.. Please email copies of articles being nominated to the 2025 Prize Committee by April 15, 2025. Self-nominations are welcome, as are nominations from SIGCIS members. Information on previous winning essays may be found on the website: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize__;!!BuQPrrmRaQ!nf0LFgARXAyjPifnvYo-3wYnbywH2-WD9cvXfw9vNScJ7XYmuRDdwVGTV4qNgxcy4mExLOLhn1M7q_1y6WFyBNXpoGu4vqM$> 2025 prize committee information: David Murphy (Chair) Senior Lecturer, Digital, Tech, Innovation & Business Staffordshire University david.murphy@staffs.ac.uk Janet Toland Adjunct School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington janet.toland@vuw.ac.nz Luke Stark Assistant Professor Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario cstark23@uwo.ca Best, Liz Petrick _________________ Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Department of History Rice University
Dear SIGCIS , A little gem found among my archives: Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences , 1971-1972, published by the ACM. It lists 102 universities (95 US, 5 in Canada, 1 in England and 1 in Holland), with their computing equipment, their teaching & research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc. Unsurprisingly, the details of computing equipments reveal a wealth of large mainframes and sometimes of supercomputers, well above those possessed then by European universities. 45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition. Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
Does anyone know if there are directories for other years? I think it may be interesting to map to see the growth of the discipline over time. On Monday, February 17, 2025, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members < members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Dear SIGCIS,
A little gem found among my archives: *Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences*, 1971-1972, published by the ACM.
It lists 102 universities (95 US, 5 in Canada, 1 in England and 1 in Holland), with their computing equipment, their teaching & research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc.
Unsurprisingly, the details of computing equipments reveal a wealth of large mainframes and sometimes of supercomputers, well above those possessed then by European universities. 45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition.
Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
Exactly – that's what I did for France, mapping the emergence of computer science measured in terms of equipment, labs, chairs, diplomas, doctorates, etc. The social/institutional construction of a "normal science". According to a California n library site, there is even a Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences , dated 1900… [ https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001832431 | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001832431 ] More seriously, the Directory was published from 1968 tà 1995: [ https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/361791 | https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/361791 ] Attached, a page sample. Regards, Pierre De: "Nabeel Siddiqui" <nabsiddiqui2@gmail.com> À: "Pierre Mounier-Kuhn" <mounier@msh-paris.fr> Cc: "members" <members@sigcis.org> Envoyé: Lundi 17 Février 2025 21:01:48 Objet: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Directory in the Computer Sciences, 1971-1972 Does anyone know if there are directories for other years? I think it may be interesting to map to see the growth of the discipline over time. On Monday, February 17, 2025, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members < [ mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org | members@lists.sigcis.org ] > wrote: Dear SIGCIS, A little gem found among my archives: Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences , 1971-1972, published by the ACM. It lists 102 universities (95 US, 5 in Canada, 1 in England and 1 in Holland), with their computing equipment, their teaching & research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc. Unsurprisingly, the details of computing equipments reveal a wealth of large mainframes and sometimes of supercomputers, well above those possessed then by European universities. 45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition. Best, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
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Elizabeth Petrick -
Nabeel Siddiqui -
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn