The Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize (formerly the IEEE Life
Members' Prize in Electrical History) is supported by the IEEE Life
Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of
Technology. The prize 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 $1,000 and a
certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy of the paper
to each member of the prize committee.
The deadline for 2015 nominations is Wednesday 15 April,
2015.
For more information, please contact the committee chair or David
Lucsko, SHOT Secretary, [log in to unmask].
2015 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize Committee
Hyungsub Choi, Chair (2014-2016)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Seoul National University
1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu
Seoul 151-744 Korea [log in to unmask]
Sheldon Hochheiser (2015-2017)
IEEE History Center
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030 [log in to unmask]
Bernard Geoghegan (2013-2015)
Schoenleinstr. 24
10967, Berlin
Germany [log in to unmask]
Recent Recipients of the Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize
2014 Colin Agur, "Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone
Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878-1968," Information and
Culture 48 (2013): 419-447.
2013 Rachel Plotnick, "At the Interface: The Case of the Electric
Push Button, 1880-1923," Technology and Culture 53 (2012): 815-845.
2012 Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, "From Information Theory to French
Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss and the Cybernetic Approach,"
Critical Inquiry 38 (Autumn 2011)
2011 Jon R. Lindsay, "War Upon the Map: User Innovation in American
Military Software," Technology and Culture 51 (July 2010): 619-651.
2010 Ross Bassett, "Aligning India in the Cold War Era," Technology
and Culture 50 (October 2009): 783-810.
