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
Launching the Exponential Center
Thursday, June 23, 2016
On June 2, 2016, the Computer History Museum launched its new Exponential Center, the first museum institution devoted to capturing the legacy of Digital Age entrepreneurship and innovation in Silicon Valley and around the world. 250 innovators, entrepreneurs, and executives gathered for the evening gala, titled “From
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From the Collection, Remarkable People
Jim Porter and the History of the Global Storage Industry
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Curatorial Insights, From the Collection
The ECHO IV Home Computer: 50 Years Later
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Curatorial Insight, From the Collection
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Curatorial Insights
Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
We take history seriously at the Computer History Museum. It’s our middle name, after all. But it’s not easy history to do, for several reasons.
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Personal Computing 1983: Innovation Bursting in Every Direction
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
This is the third of five video releases of The Boston Computer Society (BCS) General Meetings, by the Computer History Museum.
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Remarkable People
2016 CHM Fellow Awards
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
On April 16, 2016, Silicon Valley’s most influential technologists traded in their signature jeans and hoodies for suits and gowns as they joined technology leaders, innovators, and visionaries from around the world at the Computer History Museum for its 2016 Fellow Awards.
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Behind the Scenes, Curatorial Insights
In His Own Words: John Blankenbaker
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
John V. Blankenbaker, the inventor of the Kenbak, has a long career in computing, dating back to the 1950s. His association with the Museum dates back to the early 1980s when the Kenbak was named “The First PC” in the Computer Museum’s Earliest PC contest in 1986.
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Remarkable People, Software History Center
Remembering Andy S. Grove
Monday, March 21, 2016
Andrew S. Grove was a seminal figure in the history of the semiconductor industry, and in the story of high-technology industry in Silicon Valley. He passed away on March 21st, 2016. Born in Hungary in 1936, Grove faced, and overcame, profound challenges: A Jewish child who survived German and then Soviet occupations,
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Curatorial Insights, Software History Center
The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of softwar
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Curatorial Insights, Software History Center
Reading Artifacts, Finding Culture
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Today a colleague pointed me to a classic in the study of material culture, E. McClure Fleming’s “Artifact Study: A Proposed Model.” In this essay, Fleming outlines a systematic process for interrogating artifacts: Proceeding from “Identification” and “Evaluation” and on to “Cultural Analysis” and “Interpretation.” Fle