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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An Evening with Paul Baran, in conversation with Henry Lowood
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 6:00 PM
Baran will discuss the origin and development of his accomplishments—which span a lifetime of entrepreneurial activity, including 150 papers, 40 patents, and five start-up companies—and how these continue to have an impact on our everyday lives.
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The Origins of Zelenograd: The Amazing Story Of Two U.S. Engineers In Cold War Russia
Monday, November 7, 2005 6:00 PM
Author and BioCentury Publications Senior Editor Steve Usdin tells the fascinating story of two American engineers, Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, who were recruited into espionage by Julius Rosenberg, and, driven by ideology, evaded the FBI and escaped to carry on their work on behalf of the Soviet state. Barr and Saran
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A Public Discussion on the National Science Foundation’s Large-Scale Computing Research Efforts for the Future
Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:00 PM
This gathering, programmed by the NSF’s Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee, will feature an open session of research projects of interest to NSF, the advisory committee and the public. NSF has historically supported seminal computing research in small projects. Since the beginning of t
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Research and Fun
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:00 PM
One who seeks to manage research must, like a good coach, create something more than the sum of the players. Good research management seeks the reverberation of ideas that produces results. Good research management builds pride in the environment, pride in the support and understanding researchers feel, and pride in th
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The 40th Anniversary of Moore’s Law with Gordon Moore, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, Intel, in conversation with Carver Mead, Chairman and Founder, Foveon
Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:30 PM
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law, Gordon E. Moore's 1965 observation and prediction about the exponential growth in the power of semiconductor technology. Moore observed that semiconductor technology had doubled in power every year and predicted that it would continue along this developmental path. O
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An Evening with Carol Bartz
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:00 PM
Please join us for the Computer History Museum’s ongoing “Odysseys in Technology” series featuring Carol Bartz, Chairman, CEO, and President of Autodesk, Inc. in conversation with veteran Silicon Valley author and journalist Michael Malone.
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MASTERING THE GAME: A HISTORY OF COMPUTER CHESS NEW EXHIBIT DEBUT AND OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:00 PM
On September 10, the Computer History Museum will debut its newest physical and online exhibit, Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess.
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The History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective
Thursday, September 8, 2005 6:00 PM
This panel, comprising seminal contributors to the solution of this challenge—including two of AI’s leading pioneers—will discuss these and other questions as well as the origin and development of computer chess and what it tells us about ourselves and the machines we build.
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“What the Dormouse Said”
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 6:00 PM
In this talk, John Markoff, Technology writer for the New York Times, highlights how 60's counterculture in the Bay Area shaped the personal computer industry.
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When Computers Were Human
Monday, June 6, 2005 6:00 PM
What did it mean to be a human computer? Who were the first ones? Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term “computer” referred to people who did scientific calculations by hand. In his book When Computers Were Human, David Alan Grier, editor of IEEE Annals of History of Computing, offers the first in-dep