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
2018 Museum Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Remarkable People
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Remarkable People, Software History Center
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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Remarkable People
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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CHM Live, Curatorial Insights, Software History Center
QuickTime and the Rise of Multimedia
Friday, March 30, 2018
QuickTime, the pioneering mass-market digital video format for personal computers, was developed by Apple and released in 1991 on the Macintosh. As part of the MPEG-4 video standard, QuickTime technology can be found in every device today that plays digital video, from cell phones to 4K streaming TVs.
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Curatorial Insights
Bringing A New Voice to Genius—MITalk, the CallText 5010, and Stephen Hawking’s Wheelchair
Monday, March 26, 2018
Stephen Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The disease would eventually paralyze him, and a bout of pneumonia in the mid-1980s made him unable to speak on his own. For such a public figure, this was a significant difficulty, one that led Hawking to a long-las
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CHM Live
Documenting the 8-bit Generation & Beyond: An Interview with Filmmakers Tomaso Walliser and Bruno Grampa
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The worldwide impact of the personal computing revolution is no secret. Its breakthroughs are now clutched tightly in the palms of our hands and integrated throughout industries across the globe. Embedded in each of these devices is the spirit of an entire generation.
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CHM Live, Education
Our Minds on Tech: How Technology Affects the Human Brain
Thursday, March 15, 2018
“We live in really extraordinary times. We’re witnessing an explosion in the diversity and the accessibility of these amazing computers that we carry in our pockets and have on our desks,” said Lisa Krieger of the San Jose Mercury News. The CHM Live event, “Our Brain’s Development in a Technological World,” held at the
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Education
Family & Community Programming and Corporate History at CHM’s Cisco Weekend
Thursday, March 15, 2018
On February 24 and 25, the Computer History Museum (CHM) hosted Cisco Weekend—one of CHM’s many Partner Weekends that provides employees of corporations that support the Museum and their families and friends a day of fun and learning at CHM for free.
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Exponential Center
Women’s Work: Insights from Silicon Valley Women in Tech
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
In 1962, Evelyn Berezin designed a reservation system for United Airlines that served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time. It had no central system failures in 11 years of operation. One of the largest systems built at that time, few people had the skills to design it, but Berezin was
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Museum News
Changing Lanes: Meet New CHM President and Chief Executive Officer Dan’l Lewin
Monday, February 26, 2018
Focus. Determination. Strength. Drive. These are the essential qualities that a swimmer needs to stay in their lane. They’re also the skills that Dan’l Lewin has used to propel him through a prolific three-decade career in technology.