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Remarkable People
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Remarkable People
Meet 2021 CHM Fellow Honoree Raymond Ozzie
Thursday, March 25, 2021
CHM Fellow Ray Ozzie stumbled across the future in 1974. His life's work has been bringing it to the rest of us. What can the next generation of online communities learn from earlier models—from the future that Ray and others glimpsed so long ago?
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Remarkable People
Get Out of the Building: Steve Blank, Entrepreneurship, and Making the World a Better Place
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Today, workers at the world’s largest technology companies such as Apple and Google have protested against federal contracts while private and public organizations continue to fall victim to sophisticated cyber attacks. These actions beg the question: If Silicon Valley and the federal government improve their relations
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Remarkable People
A Greater Good: Lessons For the Post-Pandemic Future
Friday, April 17, 2020
There are people who have made it their mission to use tech to serve humanity and the greater good. They are engineers and scientists and entrepreneurs and businesspeople who live compassion, empathy, and concern for others every day. CHM is fortunate to have crossed paths with many of these inspiring individuals over
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Remarkable People, Software History Center
If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy’s Contributions to Computing
Monday, March 25, 2019
In the realm of software, a “branch” is a computer instruction that causes a shift from the default pattern of activity to a different sequence of actions, a different way of moving ahead if you will. For Ann Hardy, a pioneer in timesharing software and business, her contributions to computing were achieved through rep
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Curatorial Insights, Remarkable People
A Conversation with Artist & Musician Mark Mothersbaugh
Monday, March 11, 2019
DEVO has reunited a few times, but Mothersbaugh has kept working on his solo projects, including scoring films by Wes Anderson, like The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom, as well as major blockbusters like The Lego Movie and Thor: Ragnorok. Even now, when he might compose a half-dozen scores in a year while still
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Remarkable People
Remembering CHM Fellow Evelyn Berezin
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
We salute 2015 CHM Fellow Award Honoree Evelyn Berezin for her early work in computer design and a lifetime of entrepreneurial activity.
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Remarkable People, Internet History Program
Net@50: Did Engelbart’s “Mother of All Demos” Launch the Connected World?
Sunday, December 9, 2018
His goal was building systems to augment human intelligence. His group prototyped much of modern computing (and invented the mouse) along the way.
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Curatorial Insights, Remarkable People
Who Invented the Microprocessor?
Thursday, September 20, 2018
The microprocessor is hailed as one of the most significant engineering milestones of all time. The lack of a generally agreed definition of the term has supported many claims to be the inventor of the microprocessor. This article describes a chronology of early approaches to integrating the primary building blocks of
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Remarkable People
Building the Cathedral of Technology: 2018 Fellow Awards
Friday, April 27, 2018
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Brad Pitt, playing longtime Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, asks that at the end of Moneyball—and I have a mentor who likes to remind me of it. In fact, most any problem I have, moments of self doubt, questions about strategy or direction, etc. are usually answered
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Remarkable People, Software History Center
2018 Museum Fellow Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky: Silicon, Science, Memory & Survival
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
For the invention of the first commercial erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), which enabled rapid development of microprocessor-based