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
Idea Man: Author Paul Allen in Conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
Monday, April 25, 2011 6:00 PM
This event is part of our 2011 lecture series celebrating Revolutionaries, featuring conversations with and about some of the most distinguished thinkers in the computing field. The Revolutionaries lecture series complements the launch of the Computer History Museum’s permanent exhibition, Revolution: The First 2000 Ye
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Speaker Series
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. Author Steven Levy in Conversation with NPR’s Laura Sydell
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 12:00 PM
This event is part of our 2011 lecture series celebrating Revolutionaries, featuring conversations with and about some of the most distinguished thinkers in the computing field. The Revolutionaries lecture series complements the launch of the Computer History Museum's permanent exhibition, Revolution: The First 2000 Ye
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Speaker Series
Author Jane McGonigal in Conversation with NPR’s Laura Sydell. Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:00 PM
We’re going to see games tackling women’s rights. We’re going to see games around climate change. We’re going to see games around medical innovation that doctors are going to play.- Jane McGonigal
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Film Screening
Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II
Sunday, March 6, 2011 4:00 PM
In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told.
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Speaker Series
40th Anniversary of SPICE
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:00 PM
Please Join us for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), circuit simulator. You will get to witness a roundtable discussion of those responsible for the creation and world-wide propagation of this invaluable and universally used software program. Topics wil
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Speaker Series
William H. Draper III, Author of The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership Between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs, in Conversation with KQED’s Dave Iverson
Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:00 PM
This event is part of our 2011 lecture series celebrating Revolutionaries, featuring conversations with and about some of the most distinguished thinkers in the computing field. The Revolutionaries lecture series complements the launch of the Computer History Museum’s permanent exhibition, Revolution: The First 2000 Ye
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Speaker Series
Jane Smiley, Author of The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer, in Conversation with CHM’s John C. Hollar
Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:00 PM
This event is the first in our 2011 lecture series celebrating Revolutionaries, featuring conversations with and about some of the most distinguished thinkers in the computing field. The Revolutionaries lecture series complements the launch of the Computer History Museum's permanent exhibition: Revolution: The First 20
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Speaker Series
Net@40: Not Your Father’s Internet: Redefining Digital Culture. Intel’s Dr. Genevieve Bell and UC Berkeley’s Dr. Abigail De Kosnik in Conversation with NPR’s Laura Sydell
Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:00 PM
In 1998 Americans represented nearly three quarters of all Internet users; today they are less than fifteen percent. The complexion of the Web - its users, their desires, their languages, points of entry and experiences - has subtly and not-so-subtly changed. All these new online participants bring with them different
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Speaker Series
Net@40: The Facebook Effect, Author David Kirkpatrick, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in Conversation with NPR’s Guy Raz
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:00 PM
As part of its Net@40 series, the Computer History Museum is proud to present an evening of fascinating dialogue between Kirkpatrick and Zuckerberg on the past and future of Facebook. The moderator will be Guy Raz, the Peabody award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Speaker Series
Before Bangalore and Silicon Valley: How Indian MIT and IIT Graduates Have Shaped Computing History
Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:00 PM
CHM’s July 15 “In Conversation With” program will feature Dr. Bassett and T.M. Ravi an IIT graduate, Silicon Valley businessman, and member of TIE discussing the roots of the Indian IT industry and its influence on the computing history.