The Computer History Museum has announced the winner of its 2013 book prize, which went to Joseph November for his excellent Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (Johns Hopkins, 2012).

This is a project that I have been following since it was a dissertation, and it is exciting to see it receive the recognition that it deserves. There is surprisingly few historical accounts of the use of computers in scientific research, and this is an exemplary study.

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