2024 Mahoney Prize Winner

Corinna Schlombs. “Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany’s Financial Industry” Technology and Culture 64, no. 1 (January 2023): 63-89. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.0002.

2024 Computer History Museum Prize Winner

Victor Petrov, Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press: 2023).

2024 Mahoney Prize nominations

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Mahoney Prize. The deadline is April 15, 2024.

See full instructions here: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize

2024 Computer History Museum Prize

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Computer History Museum Prize. The deadline is April 15, 2024.

See full instructions here: https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize.

2023 Computer History Museum Prize

Winner: Kevin Driscoll, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).  

 

2023 Mahoney Prize

Winner: Hannah Zeavin. “‘This Is Womenspace’: USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86.” Technology and Culture 63, no. 3 (July 13, 2022): 634–64. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0104.

2023 Computer History Museum Prize

Nominations are now open for the 2023 Computer History Museum Prize. The deadline is April 30, 2023.

See full instructions here: https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize.

2022 Computer History Museum Prize

Winner:

 

Jacob Gaboury, Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press, 2021)

 

2022 Mahoney Prize

Winner:

 

Theodora Vardouli and David Theodore, “Walking Instead of Working: Space Allocation, Automatic Architecture, and the Abstraction of Hospital Labor,” in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 6-17, 1 April-June 2021. Prize

 

SIGCIS events at SHOT in New Orleans

There's some terrific computer & information history events scheduled for the SHOT annual meeting in New Orleans, coming soon on November 10-13, 2022. Here's an overview of the meeting; there's three elements in particular that you should check out: 

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