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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Software History Center
Introducing the Smalltalk Zoo
Thursday, December 17, 2020
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.”
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CHM Live
Decoding Innovation
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
We hear the term “innovation” seemingly everywhere: In books; magazines; white papers; blogs; classrooms; offices; factories; government hearings; podcasts; and more. But for all this discussion, have we really gotten much clarity?
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Museum News
Introducing CHM’s Newest Trustees
Thursday, December 10, 2020
CHM is pleased to introduce five new members of its board of trustees: Andy Cunningham, Nancy Duarte, Joe Hurd, Sanjay Nair, and Ray Rothrock.
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CHM Live
Be Good, Do Well
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Rob Chesnut, Airbnb’s former chief ethics officer, provides guidance for people and companies who want to practice ethical decision-making, or, "intentional integrity."
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CHM Live
The People Machine
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Harvard historian Jill Lepore explores the Simulmatics Corporation's efforts to predict human behavior in the 1950s and '60s and the imprint it left on today's world.
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CHM Live
Building a Better Hype Machine: How We Can Achieve the Promise of Social Media
Monday, November 23, 2020
MIT's Sinan Aral describes how we can achieve the promise and avoid the perils of social media through money, code, norms, and laws.
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CHM Live
Heroes, Communities, and the Politics of Innovation
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
If we turn away from a focus on the heroic figure and, rather, look at communities as the real authors of developments in technology and science then the concordance with historical realities becomes smooth.
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CHM Live
The Next Moonshot … Earth
Thursday, October 22, 2020
How can the first moonshot in 1969, and all we’ve learned since, help us apply what works and avoid what doesn’t to foster innovations that create a better future?
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Guest Blog
Unprecedented: Gen Z’s Right to Vote
Friday, October 16, 2020
Gen Z first-time voters share their thoughts and concerns about elections in today's digital world.
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CHM Live
Decoding the Election: Algorithms, AI, and Your Vote
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Technology has been intertwined with US presidential elections from the start. CHM turned to three experts to explore how advances in AI and voter targeting over the last four years could change the 2020 election, and beyond.