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.
From the Collection
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From the Collection
Computing’s Woodstock
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
CHM is delighted to announce the release of twenty never-before-seen video recordings of the legendary 1976 Los Alamos Conference.
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From the Collection
Margaret Hamilton In Her Own Words
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Iconic computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton, who helped land men on the moon, shared her story with CHM in a uniquely rare oral history interview.
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From the Collection
Saving Thought Leadership
Monday, March 7, 2022
Storied thought leadership forum the Churchill Club lives on at CHM, where decades of the club’s audio and video files, event photos, and newsletters will serve as a touchpoint and a reminder for future generations.
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From the Collection
Meet the Adams Brothers
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Highlights from a newly published joint oral history of two pioneering Black Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
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Curatorial Insights, From the Collection
Thinking about Machines and Thinking
Thursday, January 28, 2021
He likely arrived in Paris from Darmstadt, Germany, by train that January, exactly seventy years ago. At 53, and a full professor of applied mathematics and the founding director of the Institut für Praktische Mathematik at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Alwin Walther was among Germany’s leading figures in comput
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From the Collection
“Political Guru” or “Political Bystander”? Vote America: Your 1996 Field Guide to Electing A President
Friday, September 4, 2020
Today election news, from candidate tweets to campaign trail happenings, is widespread across various media, delivered personally to us via the internet on our device of choice. But in 1996, getting election news other than through traditional media, like television, radio, and newspapers, was a novel idea.
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From the Collection
Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian and His 68000 Emulator
Monday, June 29, 2020
Last week Apple announced its switch from Intel to its own ARM-based processors for all future #Macs. Apple has done this multiple times in its history, starting with the transition from Motorola 68000 chips to PowerPC in the early 1990s.
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From the Collection, Software History Center
CHM Releases New Recordings and Personal Stories with AI Expert Systems Pioneers
Thursday, June 25, 2020
As CHM continues its commitment to decoding the history and impact of AI, we are honored to preserve and make accessible these unique discussions with some of the field’s leading pioneers
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From the Collection
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Friday, June 19, 2020
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
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From the Collection, Internet History Program
The Bourne Collection: Online Search Is Older than You Think!
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Charlie Bourne was an expert in computerized search for 40 years before Google. CHM has recently finished cataloging his unique collection of materials documenting the history of online search and information systems from the 1950s onward, supported by a generous grant from the National Archives.