Founded in the mid-1980s, SIGCIS is the leading international group for historians with an interest in the history of information technology and its applications. Our primary activities include meetings held in connection with our parent society, the Society for the History of Technology; and a range of online resources hosted from this website.
Recent News
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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). Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov’s history of computing in Bulgaria during the Twentieth Century skillfully and engagingly operates across multiple registers of analysis – from global political economies to regional histories and from detailed stories of…
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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
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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.
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2023 Computer History Museum Prize
Winner: Kevin Driscoll, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022). “How did the internet become social ?” is a question of great importance to experts and students, historians and digital ethnographers, as well as practitioners, new and old alike. Kevin Driscoll’s The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media is both…
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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. The 2023 Mahoney Prize Committee would like to thank all of the authors who submitted a paper for consideration. We enjoyed reading, discussing, and re-reading this exciting collection of…
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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.
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2022 Computer History Museum Prize
Winner: Jacob Gaboury, Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press, 2021) Citation: Elegant and thorough, Image Objects was both enjoyable to read and exciting to engage with. The committee was particularly impressed by Jacob Gaboury’s extensive range of methodological tools, each revealing a different aspect of what he astutely describes…
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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 Citation: The paper which is awarded the Mahoney Prize this year was published in…
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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: 1. On Friday Nov 11 we’ll have the “SIGCIS Business Lunch,” which will be a great…
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CFP – SIGCIS 2022: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
SIGCIS 2022: UNDER CONSTRUCTION New Orleans, LA, US | November 13, 2022 The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] welcomes submissions to their annual conference Read the details here: meetings.sigcis.org Proposal Due Date: June 1, 2022