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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Speaker Series
Game Changers: Sony Computer Entertainment’s Shuhei Yoshida in Conversation with Mark Cerny
Thursday, April 10, 2014 7:00 PM
Shuhei Yoshida is President of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE). He has been with SCE since its inception and has been an integral part of the development of the PlayStation® family. Yoshida has overseen several successful product launches and was responsible for creating SCE's internal produ
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Speaker Series
The Art & Technology of Cirque du Soleil
Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:00 PM
From its beginnings 30 years ago as a group of 20 street performers, Cirque du Soleil is now a major Quebec-based organization providing high-quality artistic entertainment. The company has 5,000 employees, including more than 1,300 artists from more than 50 countries. It has brought wonder and delight to more than 100
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Education Event
Pop-Up Pi Day: Make, Learn and Play with the World’s Simplest Computer Kit!
Saturday, March 15, 2014 10:00 AM
Many of the coolest technologies today started with a bunch of parts and a big idea. Kids 12 to 15 years old are invited to join us at the Computer History Museum on March 15 to see some of the early computers and then make their own! Using Kano – a high-tech Lego-like kit for the do-it-yourself Raspberry Pi – kids
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Speaker Series
Technion’s President Peretz Lavie in Conversation with Museum CEO John Hollar
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:30 PM
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was founded in 1912 in Haifa and is the oldest university in Israel and the Middle East. The university offers degrees in science and engineering, as well as related fields such as architecture, medicine, industrial management, and education.
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Speaker Series
MLB Advanced Media’s Robert A. Bowman in Conversation with Museum President & CEO John Hollar
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:00 PM
Bob Bowman serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of MLB Advanced Media, a position he has held since 2000. Following Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig’s recommendation in January 2000, professional baseball owners voted to centralize their collective internet and interactive media operations u
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Speaker Series
The New Digital Age: Authors Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen in Conversation with Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg
Monday, March 3, 2014 12:00 PM
In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected — a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and harness.
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Special Event
Ninja Innovation and Startup Culture
Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:00 PM
Fresh from his command performance at CES 2014, Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro joins moderator and tech evangelist Robert Scoble in a wide-ranging conversation about Gary’s New York Times bestseller, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses.
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Speaker Series
Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior in Conversation with NPR’s Laura Sydell
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:00 PM
Padmasree Warrior is a true revolutionary. As a young woman she came to the U.S. to pursue her masters degree in chemical engineering at Cornell University with $100 in her pocket and a one-way plane ticket. Just over twenty years later, she’s one of Forbes “100 Most Powerful Women,” and Cisco CEO John Chambers says
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Special Event
How Do We Continue to Power Modern Civilization Without Destroying It? A Film Screening of Pandora’s Promise
Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:00 PM
From time to time, the Computer History Musuem joins with partners from around the country to bring programming of special interest to our broad audiences. We are pleased to invite you to just such a program: a screening of Pandora’s Promise, an award-winning documentary by Academy Award® nominee Robert Stone. The film
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Speaker Series
Regis McKenna in Conversation with John Markoff
Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:00 PM
Regis McKenna founded his own high tech marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc., in Silicon Valley in 1970 after working in the marketing departments of two early semiconductor pioneering companies. Over the past 30 years, his firm evolved from one focused on high tech start ups to a broad based marketing strategy firm ser