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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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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From the Collection
“Political Guru” or “Political Bystander”? Vote America: Your 1996 Field Guide to Electing A President
Friday, September 4, 2020
Today election news, from candidate tweets to campaign trail happenings, is widespread across various media, delivered personally to us via the internet on our device of choice. But in 1996, getting election news other than through traditional media, like television, radio, and newspapers, was a novel idea.
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CHM Live
Living Boldly: The Innovative and Inclusive Career of Andrea Goldsmith
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Andrea Goldsmith's work has enabled billions of people around the world to enjoy fast, reliable cell phone and WiFi networks. But she has an even greater ambition: she wants to make engineering more inclusive and diverse.
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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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Curatorial Insights
AI and Play, Part 2: Go and Deep Learning
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
One of the most influential demonstrations of the superiority of deep learning over old-fashioned symbolic AI arrived when Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat the world champion in the ancient Chinese game, Go.
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Curatorial Insights
How Do Neural Network Systems Work?
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
As the name suggests, artificial neural networks are modeled on biological neural networks in the brain. The brain is made up of cells called neurons, which send signals to each other through connections known as synapses.
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CHM Live
The Startup Community Way: Brad Feld Decodes Complexity
Friday, July 31, 2020
Techstars cofounder, entrepreneur, early-stage investor, and author Brad Feld offers new guidance and insights for startup communities from his latest book, The Startup Community Way.
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Curatorial Insights
AI and Play, Part 1: How Games Have Driven Two Schools of AI Research
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Today, AI based on deep learning and neural networks is taking the world by storm. However, many of the algorithms that guide our web searches and driving directions today are much older, rooted in what people now call “Good, Old Fashioned AI,” also known as “symbolic” AI.
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Curatorial Insights
Summer Reads from CHM
Monday, July 20, 2020
As Dave Barry observed, reading is "a vacation for the mind," and we can certainly all use a break right about now. Here are some tech-related ideas for your summer reading pleasure!
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Behind the Scenes, Museum News
Thriving in Place: CHM’s Journey through the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Looking back, the entire effort was a balance of teamwork, community support, new tools at the right time, and, most importantly, digging deep to find a new level of stamina and creativity.