CHM Blog
The CHM blog showcases ideas and insights from our vibrant community in Silicon Valley and around the world. We take you behind the scenes of our programming, collections, and exhibits. Connecting the past to the present and into the future, we decode technology for everyone.
Curatorial Insights
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Curatorial Insights
“The Surface State Job”
Monday, December 12, 2022
Happy 75th birthday to the transistor! Find out who was REALLY behind its invention.
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PostScript: A Digital Printing Press
Thursday, December 1, 2022
CHM publicly releases the source code for the breakthrough printing technology, PostScript.
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50 Years of Fun With Pong
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Happy birthday to PONG! The iconic game turned 50, and it's still going strong.
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Music-Film-Computers
Friday, September 2, 2022
Come see "Music—Film—Computers," our newest exhibit in the Screening Room, featuring rare experimental films with accompanying musical scores from the 1970s.
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The Biggest Chip In the World
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Find out what (and who) is behind the world's biggest integrated circuit now on display at CHM.
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Ukraine’s Software & Computer Museum
Thursday, March 31, 2022
The Software & Computing Museum in Ukraine is under threat from Russian bombs. It's personal for CHM Senior Curator Dag Spicer.
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Curator Picks for Holiday Reads
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Wondering what to buy the computing history fan on your holiday list? CHM Senior Curator Dag Spicer has got you covered! See his book picks.
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Audrey, Alexa, Hal, and More
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Star Trek got speech recognition right. How did this science fiction fantasy of only a few decades ago come true? What's the history of speech recognition and where is it headed?
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Walking the Walk
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
"We wanted to do the right thing, and it was an independent value, not to do with the commercial success of the business," said Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, when the company decided to sponsor the first AIDS walk in Boston in 1986.
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Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story
Friday, March 26, 2021
In February 2020, Patricia Anderson wrote to the Museum, offering to donate a set of objects and documents she had kept safe for 50 years. They were from her work as a young woman in Silicon Valley, where she worked as a “crystal puller”—an operator of manufacturing equipment for making the key materials for semiconduc