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  Creating Magic: A Conversation with Original iPhone Engineers & Software Team Lead Scott Forstall

  Thursday, June 22, 2017

  When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after it acquired NeXT, he brought with him a close-knit group of engineers. One of them was Scott Forstall, a young software designer who had come to NeXT directly from Stanford University.

• CHM Live

  How Affectiva’s Rana el Kaliouby Is Engineering Emotional Intelligence

  Saturday, June 17, 2017

  What could your computer or phone do if it knew what you were thinking? Are men or women more expressive? Do cultures express their emotions differently? And what is the Mona Lisa thinking already? Affectiva knows.

• CHM Live

  AI, Social Media Data & Politics Collide with Stanford GSB’s Dr. Michal Kosinski

  Tuesday, June 6, 2017

  On May 19, the Computer History Museum hosted Stanford Graduate School of Business Associate Professor Dr. Michal Kosinski for a riveting conversation about the intersection of social media information, machine learning, and politics.

• CHM Live, Exponential Center

  Computing for the Whole World: A Conversation with iPod & iPhone Inventor Tony Fadell

  Wednesday, May 31, 2017

  Tony Fadell doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. His parents were neither engineers nor scientists, but his grandfather gave him a passion for both building things and for design. His grandfather recognized his love for computing and offered to match whatever the then 11-year old Fadell had to help him buy his first co

• CHM Live, Exponential Center

  Venture Capital in the Blood: Three Generations of Drapers in Silicon Valley

  Friday, May 19, 2017

  On April 19, 2017, three generations of the Draper family joined Marguerite Gong Hancock on the CHM Live stage at the Computer History Museum as part of a series of programs organized by the Exponential Center. Exponential focuses on capturing the legacy and advancing the future of innovation and entrepreneurship.

• CHM Live, Exponential Center

  Programming the System of the World: The Industrial Internet of Things

  Thursday, May 4, 2017

  At the “Programming the System of the World” event on March 30, co-hosted by the Exponential Center and the NextGen Advisory Board, three panelists at the forefront of advances in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) gathered at the Computer History Museum to discuss how new technologies are transforming the industr

• CHM Live

  Asteroid Mining: “The Only Business Where the Sky Isn’t the Limit”

  Tuesday, April 18, 2017

  Today, the potential for space exploration seems to be taking off. However, there is a major limitation in our quest to reach infinity and beyond: a lack of resources in space.

• CHM Live, Guest Blog

  The HP Ways: Lessons on Strategy and Culture

  Tuesday, March 21, 2017

  HP was once famous and admired for its culture. The “HP Way” shaped several generations of companies in Silicon Valley and beyond. HP’s culture has been a source of significant advantages and challenges for the company under many different leaders. In this article, we can trace the lessons from where and how HP’s cultu

• CHM Live, Exponential Center

  Computing in Your Pocket: The Prehistory of the iPhone in Silicon Valley

  Tuesday, March 14, 2017

  On Thursday, March 2, four pioneering Silicon Valley technologists shared the stage at the Computer History Museum (CHM), turning the clock back three decades and exploring the prehistory of the iPhone.

• CHM Live

  There Is No “I” in Software: How GitHub Helps Teams Code

  Tuesday, January 24, 2017

  Google, NASA, and the White House are just a few of the superstars you can find on social coding site GitHub. With 19 million users, the company features everything from open source fonts to code allowing nonprofits to save and analyze electronic health records in Africa. Developers around the world use GitHub to share