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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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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Behind the Scenes
Panic and Privilege
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Author Pamela McCorduck relates how she's seen science and the humanities converge in the field of artificial intelligence.
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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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CHM Live
A Facebook Story: Mark Zuckerberg’s Hero’s Journey
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Renowned tech journalist Steven Levy’s balanced and compelling new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, and his discussion with CEO Dan’l Lewin, provides all the details we need to write the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s hero’s journey—complete with a cliff-hanger ending.
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Behind the Scenes
The Promise of the Doctor Program: Early AI At Stanford
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
McCorduck describes how the early Doctor program illustrates many issues that still surround artificial intelligence. There’s the dream of harnessing AI for a better future, concerns about ethics at the intersection of AI and human behavior, and the clash of personalities and perspectives in a new field with both unpre
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From the Collection, Internet History Program
The Bourne Collection: Online Search Is Older than You Think!
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Charlie Bourne was an expert in computerized search for 40 years before Google. CHM has recently finished cataloging his unique collection of materials documenting the history of online search and information systems from the 1950s onward, supported by a generous grant from the National Archives.
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Behind the Scenes
AI Is Already Here, For Good Or Bad
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
It will ask questions we don’t even know how to ask. It will think the things we are incapable of thinking. It will experience and feel the things that we aren’t capable of.
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CHM Live
Dystopia or Utopia? The Autonomous Revolution
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
For only the third time in human history, civilization is undergoing epic cultural transformation. As artificial intelligence and virtual environments change life as we know it—and take our jobs—will we end up better or worse off?
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CHM Live
Playing by New Rules: How Sports Tech is Changing the Game
Sunday, March 1, 2020
How is technology changing the game for sports teams and their fans worldwide? On February 21, 2020, experts from across the professional sports world offered rare insights into the innovations transforming their field during a panel discussion at CHM.
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Museum News
CHM’s Top 10 Blogs of the Decade, 2009–2019
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
What better way to commemorate our journey these last 10 years than with a look back at our 10 most-read blogs? Beginning with our earliest, enjoy the best of CHM’s blog this decade.