For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.987.6230, shot@virginia.edu.
http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ieee.html

We look forward to their upcoming visits to CBI!

The fellowship may be held at the recipient's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $14,000. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation.

Preference will be given to applicants indicating a need to use CBI materials, planning research in residence at CBI, and willing to make a brief presentation of their research findings to CBI staff. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to Susan Hoffman, CBI Archivist, at s-hoff@umn.edu.

Tomash Fellowship recipients must remain students in good standing throughout the term of their fellowship, but there is no restriction on holding other fellowships, scholarships, or awards concurrent to the Tomash Fellowship.

To Apply:

Applicants should send to CBI a curriculum vitae and a five-page (single-spaced) statement and justification of the research project including a discussion of methods, research materials, evidence of faculty support for the project, and bibliography (bibliography does not count toward page count).

Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference and certified copies of graduate school transcripts to be sent directly to CBI.

Materials must be postmarked no later than January 17, 2012.

Charles Babbage Institute: Tomash Fellowship
211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Please direct questions about the Tomash Fellowship to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, yostx003@umn.edu, 612.624.5050

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an internationally recognized research center and archives focused on the history of information technology. CBI conducts major research projects; publishes books and articles; and collects, processes, and provides open public access to the most diverse and extensive collection of archival materials on computing, software, and networking in the world. CBI collections include the records of corporations, technical and trade associations, personal papers, industry publications, oral histories, photographs, film/video, and an extensive reference library. The Norberg Travel Fund is named for CBI's founding director, Arthur L. Norberg, and is funded by generous gifts from his friends and colleagues.

List of past recipients

To Apply:

Applicants should send a 2-page CV as well as a 500-word project description that describes the overall research project, identifies the importance of specific CBI collections, and discusses the projected outcome (journal article, book chapter, museum exhibit, etc.). Applicants are strongly encouraged to examine the extensive on-line finding guides to CBI's 200-plus archival collections at www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html. Applicants should estimate how many days they plan to use CBI collections during their visit (travel should generally be in the calendar year of the award). To be eligible, scholars will reside outside the Twin Cities metropolitan region.

Notification of awards will be made within four weeks, and travel can commence directly thereafter. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to Susan Hoffman, CBI Archivist, at s-hoff@umn.edu. Please direct questions about the Arthur Norberg Travel Fund to Jeffrey Yost, CBI Associate Director, yostx003@umn.edu, 612.624.5050. For additional information, see www.cbi.umn.edu.

Materials must be submitted by email to cbi@umn.edu or postmarked no later than January 17, 2012.

Charles Babbage Institute: Norberg Travel Fund
211 Andersen Library
University of Minnesota
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Just a quick note to let you know that I will, sadly, be leaving CBI after this week. It has been a great pleasure working here, and I will very much miss the people and the collections. Taking my place will be the lovely and competent Susan Hoffman (s-hoff@umn.edu), so if you need anything archives-related, please don't hesitate to contact her.

Best wishes to all.
-Stephanie

The program will provide annual support for up to two research projects that require use of one or more of the collections. Awards range from $500 to $2,000 and provide funds for travel, housing and other research related costs. The final research product (e.g., journal article, documentary film) must acknowledge the Libraries' support and be deposited with the University Libraries.

Inna Kouper (Indiana University--Bloomington) for a project on "History of ACM SIGWEB as a framework for a conceptual history of hypertext."

Andrew L. Russell (Stevens Institute of Technology) for a project on "European Contributions to Computer Networks: An Oral History Project." Andrew was also a CBI Tomash Fellow from 2006-2007.

Ksenia Tatarchenko (Princeton University) for a project on "Computer Science from Silicon Valley to Golden Valley."

You can see a full description of their projects here.

We also had the pleasure of awarding our 2011 Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grants to Hansen Hsu and Rachel Lee. Hansen Hsu is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University working on a social history and ethnographic study of the "Cocoa" software developer community. Rachel Lee is a doctoral candidate at the University of Rochester and her dissertation is entitled "Media of the Imagination: Romantic Poetry, Media History, and the Digital Humanities." Congratulations!

Presenter: Thomas J. Misa
Affiliation: University of Minnesota, Charles Babbage Institute
Website: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/misa.html
Time: 11:15 - 12:15
Location: Keller Hall 3-125
Host: John Riedl

Abstract: The Charles Babbage Institute is conducting a historical assessment of NSF's FastLane system. This paper presents early data from our documentary research, interviews with FastLane's designers, and extensive interviews with FastLane users at university campuses across the country as well as "legacy users" at NSF itself. We are also collecting data with a website we created for users to do self-paced interviews . Our research aims to document FastLane as a pioneering instance of e-government as well as to explore two lines of analysis. First, what lessons can be learned from FastLane's design, implementation, and on-going use that might guide present efforts in cyberinfrastructure? Second, what have been FastLane's implications and consequences--for NSF itself, for research universities, and for the national research enterprise? We direct special attention to two populations of concern identified by NSF: the historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), and the "EPSCoR" states that receive less than median NSF funding. There is an important public policy question whether FastLane has served to impede or to promote NSF-funded activity at these institutions.

Bio: Thomas Misa directs the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute, a leading international center for the history of information technology. He is a faculty member in the ECE department, holder of the ERA Land-Grant Chair in the History of Technology, and teaches in the Program for History of Science and Technology. His latest book is Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010).