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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Exponential Center, Education
Exploration and Creation: Highlights from the 2019 Class of Exponential Center Interns
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
In June 2019, four college students from universities on opposite coasts and studying fields as diverse as global studies and computer science arrived at CHM. They had worked in a museum, a startup, a security and privacy lab, and a rowing club. They all shared a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation.
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CHM Live
What You Do Is Who You Are: Exploring Culture With Ben Horowitz
Saturday, December 21, 2019
What exactly is company culture and how do you create it? Ben Horowitz, veteran entrepreneur and cofounder of Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz mined history for some answers.
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Curatorial Insights, Internet History Program
Where to Next?
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
It's a Tuesday morning in 2037. You hurriedly brush your teeth and dress to meet the self-driving car arriving downstairs. As it pulls away from the curb, what world awaits?
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CHM Live
The Great Hack: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Who controls our personal data? That question was at the heart of a panel discussion at CHM on November 4, 2019 about Netflix’s documentary The Great Hack, which exposes the underbelly of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook’s role in the security breach.
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Exponential Center, CHM Live
Making Change: 36 Years of Innovation at Intuit
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
How does a tech company founded in the era of floppy disks and hand-packaged software not only survive but thrive as the market leader for 36 years? Cofounders Scott Cook and Tom Proulx and early CFO Eric Dunn, now CEO of Quicken, share insights into the principles and key decisions that keep Intuit at the leading edge
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Internet History Program
The First 50 Years of Living Online: ARPANET and Internet
Friday, October 25, 2019
On the evening of October 29, 1969, two young programmers sat at computer terminals 350 miles apart: Charley Kline at UCLA and Bill Duvall at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Northern California.
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Gambling on Whirlwind: How the US Navy Spent $3 Million+ and Got a Computer Game
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
The discovery of the Whirlwind’s Blackjack contributes to the historical record of games being created and implemented on early electronic digital computers from the late 1940s and early 1950s. As part of a project to restore Whirlwind software, we’ve recovered the game from original tapes in the CHM archive.
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From the Collection, Software History Center
The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
Thursday, October 17, 2019
In celebration of Unix’s 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
The Valley and the “Swamp”: Big Government in the History of Silicon Valley
Thursday, October 10, 2019
O’Mara describes post-WWII Silicon Valley as an “entrepreneurial Galapagos,” a region developing in some isolation on the West Coast with very distinctive species of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, law firms, marketing firms, and research universities.
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Museum News
Rediscovering the Core: A New Identity for CHM
Thursday, September 26, 2019
As this work starts to get rolled out, the system aligns with where CHM stands today—an authoritative institution deeply grounded in history, but one that aims to surpass its original intent, one that actively seeks to find new connections and grow far beyond its walls.