See below details for the IEEE Life Members' Prize (best journal article) -- this includes history of computing in its scope. So, although you probably didn't realize it, you're an "electrical historian." Encouragement of submissions was mentioned at the most recent IEEE Annals board meeting as a good strategy for boosting the visibility of our field. Looking at the names of the judges also suggests a possibly sympathetic audience for our work. You can nominate yourself, or someone else. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Butrica [mailto:abutrica@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:34 PM To: thaigh@computer.org Subject: IEEE Life Members' Prize Tom, I was wondering if you would distribute the following announcement regarding the IEEE Life Members' Prize to members of your SIG. Thanks in advance, Andrew Dear colleagues, If you or someone you know has published an article in 2009 dealing with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field-and this entails history of technology in its broadest sense-please consider nominating it for the IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History. Paper authors are encouraged to nominate themselves by submitting a copy of their article, and everyone is asked to submit notice of anything that they have seen published in 2009 that they feel is worthy of being considered for the Prize. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2010. The official prize announcement appears below. For more information, please contact Andrew Butrica, Prize Committee Chair, at abutrica@earthlink.net, or W. Bernard Carlson, SHOT Secretary at shot@virginia.edu. Andrew Butrica Prize Committee Chair THE IEEE LIFE MEMBERS' PRIZE IN ELECTRICAL HISTORY The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology-power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science-published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy (paper or electronic) of the article to each member of the prize committee. Deadline for the 2009 prize is April 15, 2010. Andrew J. Butrica (chair) Apt. 913-South 5225 Pooks Hill Road Bethesda, MD 20814 abutrica@earthlink.net Robert MacDougall Department of History University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre 4328 London, Ontario N6A 5C2 CANADA rmacdou@uwo.ca Eden Medina School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 901 E. 10th Street, Room 305 Bloomington, IN 47408 eden.medina@gmail.com Andrew J. Butrica MERCURIANS ANTENNA Newsletter P.O. Box 30224 Bethesda, MD 20824-0224 USA mercurians@earthlink.net www.mercurians.org