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.
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2018 Museum Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
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2018 Museum Fellow Guido van Rossum, Python Creator & Benevolent Dictator for Life
Thursday, April 5, 2018
For the creation and evolution of the Python programming language and for leadership of its community.
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13 Sextillion & Counting: The Long & Winding Road to the Most Frequently Manufactured Human Artifact in History
Monday, April 2, 2018
Scientists and engineers achieved the alchemist’s goal of turning low-value material into gold with the invention of the MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) transistor.
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“Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
At the dawn of the modern computing era teenager Laura Lehmer Gould and her brother Donald Lehmer were the youngest “un-programmers.”
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2017 CHM Fellow Lawrence G. Roberts
Thursday, April 27, 2017
2017 CHM Fellow Larry Roberts (1937–2018) is honored for his seminal contributions to the evolution of our connected world. Following his early work in computer graphics and networking he was chief architect of the ARPANET, the US Department of Defense network that was a key building block of the later Internet. He wa
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2017 CHM Fellow Margaret Hamilton
Thursday, April 27, 2017
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Harry Sello: Silicon Pioneer and Industry Personality (1921–2017)
Friday, April 14, 2017
June 1968, I checked in at the lobby of the Fairchild R&D facility on Miranda Drive in Palo Alto. A distinguished gentleman with a huge grin rushed towards me and, energetically pumping my hand, greeted me like long lost friend.
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2017 CHM Fellow Alan Cooper: Father of Visual Basic
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
2017 CHM Fellow Alan Cooper is best known as the “Father of Visual Basic,” possibly the most widely used visual programming environment in the software industry.
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2017 CHM Fellow Cleve Moler: Mozart of the Matrix
Thursday, April 6, 2017
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Hidden Figures No Longer
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Throughout computing history, there are many inspirational stories of how technology came about through hard work, determination, and overcoming odds. Unfortunately, many of these stories have not been told until recently. One of these untold stories concerns the inspiring women behind the early days of NASA who pitche