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 NASA’s Ali Guarneros Luna
Saturday, June 4, 2016 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build program welcomes middle school students from around the Bay Area to a series of one-day events that provide opportunities for all individuals to challenge themselves, become inspired, and see engineering, science, technology, and math as an exciting adventure that they can participate in. Each 100
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Special Event
Creating Exponential Impact in Silicon Valley
Friday, June 3, 2016 6:00 PM
One idea, combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of founders, venture capitalists, influencers, and changemakers, can create a billion devices, generate a billion dollars, or touch a billion people. The exponential power of innovation combined with entrepreneurship surrounds us: one set of Fairchild notebooks catalyz
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Speaker Series
Launch of Exponential Center
Friday, June 3, 2016 11:00 AM
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Featuring Rock Star Alvaro Prieto
Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build program welcomes middle school students from around the Bay Area to a series of one-day events that provide opportunities for all individuals to challenge themselves, become inspired, and see engineering, science, technology, and math as an exciting adventure that they can participate in. Each 100
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Mother’s Day Special Edition Featuring Google’s Katherine Kuan
Saturday, May 7, 2016 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build student program welcomes middle schoolers from around the Bay Area to a series of one-day events that provide opportunities for all individuals to challenge themselves, become inspired, and see engineering, science, technology, and math as an exciting adventure that they can participate in. Each 1
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Speaker Series
The History (and the Future) of Software
Friday, April 29, 2016 11:30 AM
Computing hardware resides in the physical world: we can see these artifacts, touch them, move them, study them. The software that brings life to that hardware lives in an ethereal world, largely hidden from observation. And yet, the story of software is just as compelling as that of hardware: both worlds are filled wi
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Speaker Series
Alibaba and Jack Ma: Beyond E-commerce and China—Implications for Silicon Valley
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:30 PM
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built is a story of how one entrepreneur, Jack Ma, used his charisma, ambition, and unrelenting determination to build a company that surprised the world. Today the dominant player in China’s e-commerce market, the company is testing the limits of the private sector’s potential to reshap
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Speaker Series
The Technological Indian
Thursday, April 21, 2016 6:30 PM
The rise of India as a technological and engineering force, and the parallel rise of Indian engineers and executives to the pinnacle of the industry, is a success story played out over 150 years of history. At the heart of that story is a fascinating relationship between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Fellow Awards
2016 Fellow Awards
Saturday, April 16, 2016 7:00 PM
The Fellow Awards is a signature program of the Computer History Museum. Since 1987, CHM’s Fellow Awards have honored distinguished technology leaders who have forever changed our world. This prestigious honor recognizes each Fellow’s role in the advancement of computing history, as well as the impact of their contribu
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Featuring Lorne Kligerman
Sunday, April 10, 2016 9:30 AM
The Design_Code_Build program welcomes middle school students from around the Bay Area to a series of one-day events that provide opportunities for all individuals to challenge themselves, become inspired, and see engineering, science, technology, and math as an exciting adventure that they can participate in. Each 100