The IEEE Life Members' Prize
The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members' Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, 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 of the paper to each member of the prize committee. Deadline is April 15.2008 IEEE Life Members' Prize Committee
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Susan Schmidt Horning (chair)
Department of History St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica, NY 11439 schmidts@stjohns.edu |
Andrew J. Butrica
8352 N. Brook Lane Bethesda, MD 20814 abutrica@earthlink.net |
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Robert MacDougall
Department of History University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre, Room 4328 London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 rmacdou@uwo.ca |
For more information, please contact the committee chair or Amy Bix, SHOT Secretary, 515.294.8469, shot@iastate.edu.
Previous Recipients of the IEEE Life Members' Prize
| 2007 | Eden Medina, “Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile,” Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571–606 |
| 2006 | Martin Collins, “One World . . . One Telephone: Iridium, One Look at the Making of a Global Age,” History and Technology 21 (September 2005): 301–24 |
| 2005 | Richard Hirsh, "Power Struggle: Changing Momentum in the Restructured American Electric Utility System," Annales historiques de l'électricité (June 2004): 107–123. |
| 2004 | Kristen Haring, "The 'Freer Men' of Ham Radio: How a Technical Hobby Provided Social and Spatial Distance," Technology and Culture 44 (2003): 734–761. |
| 2003 | David Kirsch and Gijs Mom, "Visions of Transportation: The EVC and the Transition from Service- to Product-Based mobility," Business History Review 76 (2002): 75–110. |
| 2002 | Stuart W. Leslie, "Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley," HSPS 32 (2001): 71–113. |
| 2001 | David A. Mindell (MIT), "Opening Black's Box: Rethinking Feedback's Myth of Origin," Technology and Culture (July 2000). |
| 2000 | Richard J. Noakes, "Telegraphy is an Occult Art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the Diffusion of Electricity to Other Worlds," British Journal for the History of Science 32 (1999): 421–59. |
| 1999 | Trent A. Mitchell, "The Politics of Experiment in the Eighteenth Century: The Pursuit of Audience and the Manipulation of Consesus in the Debate over Lightning Rods," Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 307–331. |
| 1998 | Robert G. Arns, "The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context," Technology and Culture, 38 (October 1997). |
| 1997 | Larry Owens, "Where are We Going, Phil Morse? Changing Agendas and the Rhetoric of Obviousness in the Transformation of Computing at MIT, 1939–1957," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (1996). |
| 1996 | Sungook Hong, "Forging Scientific Electrical Engineering: John Ambrose Fleming and the Feranti Effect," Isis 86 (1995) |
| 1995 | Kenneth Lipartito, "When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry," American Historical Review 99 (1994) |
| 1994 | Ellen B. Koch, "In the Image of Science? Negotiating the Development of Diagnostic Ultrasound in the Culture of Surgery and Radiology," Technology and Culture 34 (1993) |
| 1993 | William McBride, "Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection: The Electric Battleship and U.S. Naval-Industrial Relations," Technology and Culture 33 (April 1992) |
| 1992 | Donald MacKenzie, "Influence of the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories in the Development of Supercomputing," Annals of the History of Computing 13 (1991) |
| 1991 | Michael Ben-Chaim, "Social Mobility and Scientific Change: Stephen Gray's Contribution to Electrical Research," British Journal for the History of Science 22 (1990) |
| 1990 | J. Samuel Walker (U.S. Dept of Energy), "Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965–1971," Technology and Culture 29 (October 1989) |
| 1989 | W. Bernard Carlson (University of Virginia), "Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907–1932," Technology and Culture 29 (July 1988) |
| 1988 | Ron Kline, "Science and Engineering Theory in the Invention and Development of the Induction Motor, 1880–1900," Technology and Culture 28 (1987): 283–313 |