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.
Guest Blog
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Guest Blog
Hotspots and Have-Nots: Revisiting the Digital Divide
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Take a right off the main highway, down a rutted dirt road and drive eight miles to the two-bedroom trailer where Myra Nez grew up. Nez is the Navajo woman who as a 13-year-old won an Apple iMac in 2000. But her home didn't have internet service... or running water.
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Guest Blog
Technology Is the Only Way to Open Schools in the Fall—But It’s Far from Perfect
Friday, August 14, 2020
Technology—and particularly innovative advances of the last decade—are the only way schools will “reopen” for the coming school year. But while technology might be the solution, it is not the answer.
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Guest Blog
Silicon Valley’s Office Culture Will Survive COVID-19—Bet On It
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Yes, we will work differently in the post-pandemic world. For some of us that will mean working from home more often. It’s even likely that more people will work from home than did before the pandemic. But not everyone. Not even most people. Especially in Silicon Valley.
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Guest Blog
Homelessness: The Problem that Even Silicon Valley Can’t Seem to Solve
Friday, May 29, 2020
Silicon Valley is known for a lot of things: The co-invention of the microchip, the launch pad for the venture capital industry, the home of Google, Facebook and Apple, the setting for HBO’s hilarious send-up of tech culture. We can now add one more thing to the list: Homelessness.
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Guest Blog
The Post-Apocalyptic Coronavirus World
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
It is a time that has called for sacrifice and an acknowledgment that the world is bigger than us and our role in it. It is a time that has forced us to find new ways of human connection. Those might be the most valuable lessons we learn from the great pandemic of 2019–2020.
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Gambling on Whirlwind: How the US Navy Spent $3 Million+ and Got a Computer Game
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
The discovery of the Whirlwind’s Blackjack contributes to the historical record of games being created and implemented on early electronic digital computers from the late 1940s and early 1950s. As part of a project to restore Whirlwind software, we’ve recovered the game from original tapes in the CHM archive.
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
The Whirlwind Computer at CHM
Friday, November 30, 2018
Although much of Whirlwind was lost when the machine was decommissioned, the Computer History Museum and the MIT Museum retain many of the machine’s components, some of which are on display in CHM’s permanent exhibition, Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Before ENIGMA: Breaking the Hebern Rotor Machine
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
The Hebern Rotor Machine was a major innovative leap in cipher technology and was also the first time electrical circuitry was used in a cipher device. Despite its failure to gain market acceptance, it had far-reaching historical significance in World War II and beyond. Unfortunately, its enigmatic inventor, Edward Heb
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Guest Blog
VENTURE: An Entrepreneur’s Journey — A Synopsis
Friday, July 21, 2017
“VENTURE: An Entrepreneur’s Journey” will be screened at the Computer History Museum on Friday, July 28, 2017. The screening will be followed by a panel session on entrepreneurship and globalization. Learn more and register here.
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CHM Live, Guest Blog
A Journey into Digital Art: Reflections by Photoshop Hall of Famer Bert Monroy
Thursday, July 6, 2017
I’ve been drawing since I was two years old. I had been getting in trouble my entire life for drawing in class, and on the suggestion of one of my teachers, I tried out for the High School of Art and Design. I majored in advertising and illustration while learning from masters of their trade. Later, I attended the Scho