Association for Computing Machinery Fellowships in ACM History 2018, USA

Publish Date: Oct 04, 2017

Deadline: Mar 01, 2018

ACM History Committee Call for Proposals: Fellowships in ACM History

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. The ACM History Committee will support research projects related to ACM's professional and educational activities and/or to ACM’s rich institutional history including its organization, publications, SIG activities, and conferences.
We will support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers.

 

To Apply:

Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that [a] describes the proposed research; [b] identifies the importance of specific ACM historical materials, whether traditional archival collections or online historical materials (oral histories, digitized conference papers, ACM organizational records, et al.); [c] discusses project outcomes (e.g., journal article, book or dissertation chapter, teaching resource, museum exhibit, website); [d] outlines a timeline for completing the project; [e] agrees to write a one-page blog entry during the project and, on completion, to promptly report the project’s result.

Applicants should include a letter of endorsement from their home institution or an external scholarly reference
Proposals are due by 1 March, 2018Proposals should be submitted as a single pdf-format document to history-webmaster@acm.org. Notification of awards will be made in 6-8 weeks. 
Since 2009, the ACM History Committee has supported 25 research projects. Results include the recent edited volume Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM (ACM Books 2016; DOI10.1145/2973856). ACM HC also sponsors workshops in oral history methods and archiving practices. 

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Disciplines

Computer Sciences

History

Mathematics

Opportunity Types

Fellowships

Eligible Countries

International

Host Countries

United States