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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Special Event
Hack the Future
Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:00 AM
Hack the Future is an all-day party / hackathon to show you what it's like to be a hacker and see if it's for you. We won't tell you what to do. You'll be free to work on whatever you want. We'll try to keep you from getting stuck, and we'll give you a place to start (if you want one). This is a unique opportunity to l
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Speaker Series
Innovating the Future: SRI’s Curt Carlson and Bill Mark in Conversation with John Markoff of The New York Times
Wednesday, April 17, 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 Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Author Ernest Freeberg in conversation with Museum CEO John Hollar
Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:00 PM
Please join us as we welcome Ernest Freeberg, the distinguished professor and historian, for a conversation with John Hollar about the technological revolution Edison’s light bulb unleashed.
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Speaker Series
“I Think, Therefore I Am” IBM Fellow Grady Booch on Computing: The Human Experience
Monday, March 11, 2013 11:30 AM
In this lecture, IBM Fellow Grady Booch explores the development of intelligent computers as projections of what we both dream and what we fear. We examine what it means to be intelligent, and take a journey through past and future approaches to building sentient software-intensive systems. Some such as Minsky believe
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Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Tuesday, February 19, 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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Author David Alan Grier on The Company We Keep
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:00 PM
Following up on 2009’s Too Soon to Tell, The Company We Keep is a second compilation of essays based on and growing out of “The Known World” column in Computer magazine. Like the original column, this collection explores the human side of how technology is developed, deployed, and used.
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Speaker Series
An Evening with Elon Musk
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:00 PM
Join Alison van Diggelen of Fresh Dialogues for a lively conversation with Elon Musk about what inspired his entrepreneurial journey from South Africa to Silicon Valley; the lessons he learned at PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity; and how he manages to lead two ground-breaking companies simultaneously. Why doe
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An Evening with Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:00 PM
This event is part of the Computer History Museum’s acclaimed speaker series Revolutionaries, featuring conversations with renowned innovators, business and technology leaders and authors in enthralling and educational conversations about the process of innovation, its risks and rewards, and failure that led to ultimat
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Speaker Series
Game Changers: Mark Cerny with EA’s Rich Hilleman
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 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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Special Event
SPARC at 25: Past, Present and Future
Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:00 AM
This panel will discuss the origins and evolution of the SPARC processor on its 25th anniversary. When a small startup -- Sun Microsystems -- decided to develop their own microprocessor in the mid 1980's, it chose a Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) architecture. The 1987 debut of the Sun-4, the first SPARC base