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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From the Collection
What the DEC?!? Records of Minicomputer Giant Digital Equipment Corporation Open for Research at CHM
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
After 14 months and over 5,000 man hours the Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) corporate archive is open for research!
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CHM Live
AI, Social Media Data & Politics Collide with Stanford GSB’s Dr. Michal Kosinski
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
On May 19, the Computer History Museum hosted Stanford Graduate School of Business Associate Professor Dr. Michal Kosinski for a riveting conversation about the intersection of social media information, machine learning, and politics.
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Museum News
Museum CEO John Hollar to Step Down in June 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
After a dynamic nine-year tenure, John Hollar will step down as president and CEO of the Computer History Museum (CHM) in June 2017. Under Hollar’s leadership, the Museum grew into a globally respected institution that USA Today called “the Smithsonian of Silicon Valley.”
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Computing for the Whole World: A Conversation with iPod & iPhone Inventor Tony Fadell
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tony Fadell doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. His parents were neither engineers nor scientists, but his grandfather gave him a passion for both building things and for design. His grandfather recognized his love for computing and offered to match whatever the then 11-year old Fadell had to help him buy his first co
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Venture Capital in the Blood: Three Generations of Drapers in Silicon Valley
Friday, May 19, 2017
On April 19, 2017, three generations of the Draper family joined Marguerite Gong Hancock on the CHM Live stage at the Computer History Museum as part of a series of programs organized by the Exponential Center. Exponential focuses on capturing the legacy and advancing the future of innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Remarkable People
“Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
At the dawn of the modern computing era teenager Laura Lehmer Gould and her brother Donald Lehmer were the youngest “un-programmers.”
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CHM Live, Exponential Center
Programming the System of the World: The Industrial Internet of Things
Thursday, May 4, 2017
At the “Programming the System of the World” event on March 30, co-hosted by the Exponential Center and the NextGen Advisory Board, three panelists at the forefront of advances in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) gathered at the Computer History Museum to discuss how new technologies are transforming the industr
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Behind the Scenes, Education
Designing with People: A Collaborative Process with IDEO
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This is the second post in an ongoing series about the making of the Computer History Museum’s Education Center.
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Remarkable People
2017 CHM Fellow Margaret Hamilton
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Remarkable People
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Remarkable People, Internet History Program
2017 CHM Fellow Lawrence G. Roberts
Thursday, April 27, 2017
2017 CHM Fellow Larry Roberts (1937–2018) is honored for his seminal contributions to the evolution of our connected world. Following his early work in computer graphics and networking he was chief architect of the ARPANET, the US Department of Defense network that was a key building block of the later Internet. He wa