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2022 David Dunning - To Program Language: A History of What We Talk with in the Age of Computing
2021 Susannah Glickman - Quantum Computing and Information
2020 Daniela Russ - Computers, Optimal Planning, and the Science of Energetics in the Soviet Union (1951-1982)
2019 Damilola Adebayo - Electricity, Economy and Society in Southern Nigeria, 1898 – 1972
2018 Theodora Dryer - Designing Certainty: The Rise of Algorithmic Computing in an Age of Anxiety ,1920-1960
2017 Devin Kennedy - Computing's Economy: Science, Technology, and the Making of Modern Finance, 1945-1975
2016 Thomas Turnbull - Computerisation and the Science of Energy Conservation in the United States, 1971-1980
2015 Gerardo Con Díaz - Intangible Inventions: Patents and the History of Software, 1945-1985
2014 Casey Cater - Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy, Environment, and the Making of the Modern South
2013 Jacob Gaboury - Computer Graphics at the University of Utah
2012 Joy Rankin - Personal Computing before Personal Computers: How 1960s and 1970s Time-Sharing Users Created Individualized, Interactive Computing
2011 Marc Landry - Europe's Battery: Alpine Water and Power, 1870-1960
2010 Julie Cohn - Expansion for Conservation: The Growth of North America’s Power Grid through the Twentieth Century
2009 Corinna Schlombs - Trans-Atlantic Transfer of Computing Technology
2008 Andrew Russell - Communication Standards from National Monopoly to Global Competition
2007 Mara Mills - Deafness and Modern Communication Technologies
2006 Hyungsub Choi - Making Transistors in the United States and Japan 1948-1960
2005 Christopher McGahey - Forty Years of Technological Innovation in the US Quartz Crystal Industry, 1918-1958
2004 Chen-Pang Yeang - Characterizing Wireless Channels: The History of Radio-Wave Propagation and Interferences, 1900-1935
2003 Leslie Berlin - Entrepreneurship and the Rise of Silicon Valley: The Career of Robert Noyce, 1956-1990
2002 Timothy Wolters - Evolution of Naval Combat Information Centers
2001 Cyrus Mody - Scanning Probe Microscopy
2000 Thomas Haigh - Managing Information Processing in American Corporations
1999 Atsushi Akera - Scientific & Engineering Computing since WWII
1998 Gary Frost - Failure of Early Frequency Modulation Radio 1900-1950
1997 Aristotle Tympas - Transition from Analog to Digital Computing
1996 Andrew Robertson - Transfer of automatic control technology between U.S. & Japan
1996 Christophe Lecuyer - Military electronics manufacturing
1995 David Morton - History of Magnetic Recording
1994 Ross Bassett - History of Metal Oxide Semiconductors
1993 Mary Ann Hellrigel - Adoption of Light and Power in Small Town America
1992 Sungook Hong - John Ambrose Fleming
1991 Gabrielle Hecht - Development of Nuclear Power
1990 Mark Henry Clark - History of Magnetic Recording
1989 Graeme Gooday - Laboratory-Based Culture in Electrical Engineering
1988 Michael Gunderloy - Computing Activities of National Bureau of Standards
1987 Nelson Kellogg - History of Television
1986 Jonathan Coopersmith - Electrification of Russia, 1880-1925
1985 Paul Israel - Technological Innovation in the Telegraph Industry
1984 Andrew Butrica - Telegraphy and Electrical Engineering in France
1983 Lawrence Owens - Early Career of Vannevar Bush
1982 No Award
1981 Robert Rosenberg - Electrical Engineering Education in America
1980 W Bernard Carlson - Career of Elihu Thomson
1979 Ronald Kline - Steinmetz and the Development of Electrical Engineering
1978 Terry Rockefeller - Technology and Democracy in the Interwar Years: The Political and Social Impact of Electrical Light and Power in New York State