The Neukom Institute for Computational Science is a collection of offices and laboratory facilities at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

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. The institute was funded by a donation from

Bill Neukom William Horlick Neukom (born 1942) is an American former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants baseball team ownership group. He held this position from May 2008 to December 31, 2011 and he was the managing partner when the Giants ...

in 2004, then Dartmouth's largest gift for an academic program. The institute provides programs for undergraduates and graduate students as well as encouraging public engagement with

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

through programs such as

Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award The Neukom Institute for Computational Science is a collection of offices and laboratory facilities at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The institute was funded by a donation from Bill Neukom in 2004, then Dartmouth's largest gift for an ...

Literary Arts Award

The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award is presented to celebrate new works of

speculative fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...

. The three categories are: Speculative Fiction, Debut Speculative Fiction and Playwriting.

Speculative Fiction

This award is for any work of speculative fiction published in the last two and a half years or that is about to be published.

Recipients

The inaugural award in 2018 was to ''Central Station'' by

Lavie Tidhar Lavie Tidhar ( he, לביא תדהר; born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tid ...

and ''On the Edge of Gone'' by Corinne Duyvis.

Debut Speculative Fiction

This award is for an author's first work of speculative fiction.

Recipients

The inaugural award in 2018 was presented to ''Best Worst American'' by Juan Martinez.

Playwriting

This award is for a full-length play addressing the question "What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?"

Recipients

The inaugural award in 2018 was presented to ''Choices People Make'' by Jessica Andrewartha.

References

External links

Neukom Institute homepage

Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award home page
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