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 West Big Data Innovation Hub’s Meredith M. Lee
Sunday, November 12, 2017 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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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Featuring Genentech’s Jesper Frank Nemholt
Saturday, November 11, 2017 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
Yesterday’s Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto
Friday, November 10, 2017 7:00 PM
How did personal computing start? Many credit Apple and IBM for this radical shift, but in 1973, years before the Apple II and IBM PC, Xerox built the Alto, a computer its makers thought could become the “computer of tomorrow.” The Alto embodied for the first time many of the defining features of personal computing t
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Speaker Series
Wonder Women: Entrepreneurship, Education, and New Frontiers
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 6:00 PM
Two innovative entrepreneurs share how they use technology and learning to expand the frontiers of bodies and minds. Calico Chief Computing Officer Daphne Koller and GoldieBlox Co-founder Debra Sterling join Exponential Center Executive Director Marguerite Gong Hancock to discuss their work improving health and empower
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Education Event
Spooky Software Family Workshop
Saturday, October 28, 2017 10:00 AM
Software allows computers to do many useful, groundbreaking, even spooky tasks. This Family Workshop will put a Halloween spin on many of the software applications in our Make Software: Change the World Exhibition. Participants in this workshop will also investigate ways that they too can be makers of spooky software u
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build-A Computer History Museum program in partnership with The Museum of Science and Industry
Saturday, October 28, 2017 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build program invites students in grades 6 through 8 to participate in a one-day event that provides engaging hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) learning opportunities. Activities focus on problem-solving and innovation through the lenses of computer science and computer histo
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Community Event
Eat, Drink & Be Techie 2017-10-27
Friday, October 27, 2017 5:00 PM
Friday Nights @CHM is offering you a whole new way to experience the Computer History Museum. CHM is now open after hours, from 5 to 9 p.m., and we're hosting the techiest block party in Silicon Valley, featuring innovative curbside cuisine and live music from Off the Grid, patio festivities at our Cloud Bistro beer
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Community Event
Eat, Drink & Be Techie 2017-10-20
Friday, October 20, 2017 5:00 PM
Friday Nights @CHM is offering you a whole new way to experience the Computer History Museum. CHM is now open after hours, from 5 to 9 p.m., and we're hosting the techiest block party in Silicon Valley, featuring innovative curbside cuisine and live music from Off the Grid, patio festivities at our Cloud Bistro beer
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Speaker Series
Putting A New World In Your Hands: The Impact Of The iPhone on Our Economy and Society
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:00 PM
In the past decade iPhone and the ensuing smartphone revolution have altered our world more thoroughly than any previous computer generation. They have reached more than half the world’s population and have changed the way we communicate, travel, work, entertain ourselves and even sleep. To close the iPhone 360 event
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Community Event
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
Friday, October 13, 2017 9:00 PM
Please join us for this special screening of Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production, hosted by Friday Nights @CHM. This documentary follows the evolution of graphic design production from the 1950s to the 1990s, from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF.