ACM History Committee fellowships awarded
Dear SIGCIS colleagues, The Association for Computer Machinery's History Committee is delighted to announce the two winners of its inaugural short-term 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 Prize 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. Each fellow will receive $2500 to support their project, which can be used for travel or other research expenses. An announcement of this year's (past) fellowship can be found at <http://history.acm.org/content.php?do=fellowship>. The ACM History Committee hopes to sponsor another round of fellowship support next year as well.
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