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
An Evening with Intel’s Justin Rattner
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:00 PM
This event is part of the Computer History Museum’s acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure
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Speaker Series
America’s Cup Comes to San Francisco: Technology Under Sail
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:00 PM
This event is part of the Museum's acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultima
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An Evening with Qualcomm’s Dr. Paul E. Jacobs
Thursday, August 8, 2013 6:00 PM
This event is part of the Museum’s acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultim
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The Totalisator – An Algorithm that Led to an Industry
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:00 PM
Before the advent of computers, special-purpose hardware was used to solve computational problems. For the pari-mutuel system of gambling the main problem was keeping accurate totals of the bets placed on each horse in a race, and the grand total of all bets, in the frenzied half hour before the race, when, at the larg
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An Evening with IBM Research’s Dr. John Kelly
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:00 PM
Revolutionaries is the Museum's acclaimed speaker series distributed throughout the world on multiple platforms. It features renowned innovators, business and technology leaders and authors in enthralling, educational conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences gain insight into the remarkable process
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Ethernet Innovation Summit Evening
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:30 PM
Ethernet 40th Birthday Party Celebrations and Charity Auction Awards Dinner (May 22nd - Evening): “Ethernet Idol” Innovation Awards: From a short list of the industry’s most innovative and dynamic contenders, a team of analysts and IT industry gurus have eliminated all but their top three contestants. The three fin
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Inspired by 40 Years of Ethernet Innovation
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:30 AM
May 22nd 1973 was the day the Ethernet concept was first outlined in a memo from the young Bob Metcalfe at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and, forty years on, this key moment in the history of human communications is being celebrated in the form of a two day Ethernet Innovation Summit looking at past, present
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Chroniclers of Technology: An Evening with David Kirkpatrick, Steven Levy & John Markoff
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:00 PM
Kirkpatrick, Levy and Markoff will take the stage with moderator John Hollar, to tell their personal versions of history gleaned from three decades covering one of the most riveting journalism beats on the planet.
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Speaker Series
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. Author Sheryl Sandberg in Conversation with Google’s Eric Schmidt
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:00 PM
This event is part of the Museum's acclaimed Revolutionaries speaker series, featuring renowned innovators, business and technology leaders, and authors in enthralling conversations often with leading journalists. Our audiences learn about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultima
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The Martian’s Daughter: A Memoir. Author Marina von Neumann Whitman in conversation with John Hollar
Monday, April 29, 2013 12:00 PM
Join Museum CEO John Hollar as he moderates a conversation with Whitman about her life with her father and her remarkable rise to become the first or highest-ranking woman in a variety of areas he unfortunately did not live to see.