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
The Elbrus-2: a Soviet-era high performance computer
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Elbrus series of machines was designed at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology (ITMVT) in Moscow, a prestigious institute under the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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From the Collection, Remarkable People
Harry Huskey, 2013 CHM Fellow
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
From the Collection, Remarkable People
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From the Collection
The Fairchild Semiconductor Collection of Notebooks and Technical Papers
Friday, March 22, 2013
In July 2012 the Computer History Museum accepted a donation from Texas Instruments Inc. of over 1,300 patent and laboratory notebooks written by Members of the Technical Staff and other employees of the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor.
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From the Collection
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair, 1939
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Every year since 1989, the Library of Congress has added twenty-five films to the National Film Registry. These are chosen from “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films” that are at least ten years old.
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From the Collection
Alvy & Ed
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I can name the singular moment that began my interest in computer graphics. It was a video we watched on a field trip to the Lawrence Hall of Science. The video was the most amazing thing a six year old had ever seen. It was a series of seemingly unrelated images that moved, but they weren’t real images. This semi-abst
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From the Collection
Adobe Photoshop Source Code
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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From the Collection
25 Years of Dataquest
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
If you were a senior executive in the Semiconductor Industry in the 1970s, 80s, and into the 1990s, you attended the annual Dataquest Industry Conference. Dataquest conferences, newsletters, industry reports and market data were the most widely attended, most thoroughly read, and the most frequently quoted of all the i
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From the Collection
If it moves, it should be Ruggednova
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Warfare has been a rich source of technological innovation as long as humans have roamed the Earth. It isn’t much of a surprise then that from early electronic analog and digital computers, to integrated circuits, and programming languages, electronics and computing have been developed in concert with military needs.
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From the Collection
Squee: The Robot Squirrel
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
From the Collection
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From the Collection
The APL Programming Language Source Code
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. What eventually became APL was first a mathematical notation, not as a computer programming language.