At the Society for the History of Technology’s annual meeting (SHOT 2012) during 4-7 October 2012, Copenhagen Denmark, there were four presentations by past winners of ACM History Fellowships, reporting on their work: Andrew Russell (Stevens Institute of Technology, a 2011 fellowship winner): “Histories of Networking vs. The History of the Internet” Ksenia Tatarchenko (Princeton […]

Congratulations to 2012 ACM History Fellowship Winners: Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech), Bernadette Longo (University of Minnesota), and Jacob Gaboury (New York University). The current and past winners of the fellowship along with their project information can be found here.

By Andy Russell (a winner of 2011 ACM History Fellowship) I’ll never forget the day that I took my first ride on the Paris Metro. The ride itself was pleasant, but not nearly as memorable as my escort–none other than the 1997 ACM SIGCOMM Award Winner, Louis Pouzin. I traveled to Paris during the first […]

The ACM History Committee has just started this ACM History Blog site (moved to this site in 2021) to allow the committee as well as the broad community to contribute blog posts related to ACM History. Please send an email to history-webmaster@acm.org if you would like to contribute blog posts to this blog site.