Past Events
CHM Live is our premier event series. It offers original productions exploring historical and current issues in technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as the ongoing transformation of computing and its impact on society.
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build featuring TechCorp Solutions’ Oscar Fernandez
Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build program welcomes students in grades 6 through 8 to participate in one-day events that provide engaging hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) learning opportunities. Activities focus on problem-solving and innovation through the lens of computer science and computing history
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Speaker Series
SpaceAge NightLife
Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00 PM
We are taking CHM Live on the road! Join us at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco for their weekly Nightlife program. We will be exploring the role of computing in Space Race history with historians and authors.
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build in partnership with Girl Scouts of Northern California featuring NASA’s Lindsay Westerfield
Saturday, March 24, 2018 9:30 AM
This Special Introductory Edition of Design_Code_Build is open to all Girl Scouts currently enrolled in grades 6 through 8. Level 1 introduces concepts of computer programming, as participants work hands-on with Raspberry Pi technology, write detailed instruction sets to “program” a partner through a life-size maze, a
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Education Event
Lights, Circuits, Action! Family Workshop
Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:00 AM
This workshop explores the engineering design process by analyzing modern and historical technologies and innovations. Participants will investigate important moments in computing history, reflect on changes in human-computer relationships, and explore various methods of input and output. Using Raspberry Pi technology,
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Speaker Series
Minitel: The Web before the Web
Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:30 AM
A decade before the web began taking the rest of us online, France was fully connected. By 1984, six million citizens were reading newspapers, sending emails, buying train tickets, paying taxes and engaging in scandalous chat on the Minitel system. That usage grew to over half of the country's population of 60 million
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build featuring Present Company Co-Founder Janete Perez
Saturday, March 10, 2018 6:30 PM
The Design_Code_Build program welcomes students in grades 6 through 8 to participate in one-day events that provide engaging hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) learning opportunities. Activities focus on problem-solving and innovation through the lens of computer science and computing history
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Speaker Series
Press Play: The Origins of QuickTime
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 6:00 PM
Join us as Center for Software History curator Hansen Hsu leads a conversation with members of the original QuickTime team about the creation of QuickTime, its evolution, and its impact on the computer and media industries.
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Speaker Series
The Commodore Story
Friday, February 23, 2018 6:30 PM
The Commodore Story is a two-hour documentary film that takes audiences through Commodore's world-changing evolution from the 1970s to the 1990s; from the PET, Vic20, and C64 to the Amiga and beyond. The film includes interviews with legends from the Commodore and Amiga years. You will also see footage of the rare C65
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Speaker Series
Our Brain’s Development in a Technological World
Thursday, February 15, 2018 6:00 PM
What happens to the brain throughout our lives when you replace tangible experiences with technological ones? When we switch physical books with Kindles and iPads? Or regularly multitask between responding to emails on the computer and texts on our smartphones? As computing becomes increasingly pervasive in our lives,
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Education Event
I <3 Software Family Workshop
Saturday, February 3, 2018 10:00 AM
Software allows computers to touch nearly every aspect of our daily lives. In this workshop, participants will explore the history and impact of software on communication, use Raspberry Pi technology to create Valentine messages for family members, and learn how they can communicate with computers to make things happen