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.
-
Speaker Series
The 40th Anniversary of the Dynabook
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 6:00 PM
Join Steve Hamm of BusinessWeek as he moderates a panel discussion to celebrate this idea that provided metaphor, motivation and inventions for the personal computers of today.
-
Speaker Series
An Evening with Sam Wyly in Conversation with Dixon Doll
Monday, October 27, 2008 6:00 PM
You won’t want to miss this rare opportunity to hear from Sam Wyly, who Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute calls, "a wonderful American character, a natural entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist with an outsized personality and humor to match his success."
-
Speaker Series
An Evening with 2008 Fellow Awardee, Jean Jennings Bartik – One of the first programmers of the 1945 ENIAC computing system
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:00 PM
In conversation with Linda O'Bryon, Bartik also will discuss: - Leading the programming team to convert ENIAC to one of the first stored-program machines (and working with Dr. John von Neumann on ENIAC's first instruction set) - Working in “Technical Camelot” at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, as programmer
-
Special Event
2008 Fellow Awards
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:30 PM
Since 1987, the Computer History Museum Fellow Awards annually honors distinguished technology leaders who have forever changed the world with their accomplishments. This prestigious award distinguishes the Fellows’ role in the advancement of computing history, as well as the impact of their contributions: They have tr
-
Speaker Series
IBM Stretch: The Forgotten Computer that Helped Spark a Revolution
Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:00 PM
Please join us for a very special celebration of a little-known, yet incredibly important, chapter in computing history. IBM’s STRETCH program for the Government’s Los Alamos lab, later its commercial offering as IBM 7030, was IBM’s audacious gamble at creating the world’s most advanced computing system: “about 100 tim
-
Speaker Series
Richard S. Tedlow, Harvard Business School Professor and Historian, Leads the IBM 360 HBS Case
Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:00 PM
Professor Tedlow will discuss the story of IBM as the leading technology company in the 1960s taking a huge risk in developing a new family of computers – a financial investment approximately three times its annual sales (1960). In 1966, Fortune magazine called this “perhaps the riskiest business judgment” of the era.
-
Speaker Series
CSIRAC – One of the Only Intact First Generation Computers Left on the Planet
Friday, June 13, 2008 6:00 PM
The fourth computer in the world, CSIRAC (pronounced 'sigh-rack') (1949 – 1964) was designed and built in Australia. It made its first successful test run in November 1949. CSIRAC is derived from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Automatic Computer. An international icon of the digital age, C
-
Special Event
Exhibit Launch & Open House: Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 PM
Join the Computer History Museum in launching its exciting new exhibit: Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, exhibited for the first time in North America. Bring your family and friends to see and hear the Engine in action! This five-ton Engine is one of only two Charles Babbage’s computing engines ever built, consist
-
Speaker Series
An Evening with Nathan Myhrvold and Doron Swade: Discussing Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine
Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:00 PM
Take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to see and hear a brand new Charles Babbage Difference Engine in action. Join us in discussion with Nathan Myhrvold, who commissioned the building of this engine, and Doron Swade, who completed the first Babbage Engine in 2002 from Babbage's original plans. Exhibited
-
Speaker Series
An Evening with Jim Morgan, Chairman of the Board, Applied Materials, in conversation with G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO, VLSI Research
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:00 PM
...