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
The Road Less Taken: The Technology Transitions of Suhas Patil
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:00 PM
On this very special evening, Suhas will share insights gained from his lifelong fascination with recognizing transitions in technology, finding new solutions, and doing what it takes to bring them to fruition.
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Speaker Series
An Evening with David Wheeler
Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:00 PM
David was trained as a mathematician, but always had the aim of getting things practically right rather than theoretically correct. Join us for a unique, revealing look at the early events that influenced him.
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Speaker Series
Ubiquitous Open Source: What Does It Mean for the Software Industry?
Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:00 PM
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Speaker Series
Documents, Data and People: World Wide Webs
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:00 PM
This talk will look at the design and growth of the World Wide Web, at the weblike connections between people, and toward a future of a web of machine-readable knowledge.
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Fellow Awards
2003 FELLOW AWARDS CELEBRATION
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:00 PM
Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments of three new Fellows whose creativity, persistence, vision, and worldwide influence in the field of computing have helped reshape our everyday lives.
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Speaker Series
Three Decades of Innovation: Philippe Kahn’s Personal Stories
Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:00 PM
Join Philippe as he discusses three decades of history, vision, and innovation, from working on the Micral up through today's leading-edge camera phones and the revolution in telecommunications. Philippe will share his personal stories on how he started three successful high technology companies. This year marks the 20
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Speaker Series
Distributed Computing Economics
Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:30 PM
The paper Distributed Computing Economics considers the relative costs of computing resources and the implications this has for distributed system design. Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5)
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Special Event
Apple Lore
Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:30 PM
This event will bring together a remarkable group of people to see old friends, take a walk down memory lane and pass on their stories and coveted artifacts to the Computer History Museum. In doing so we will capture the AppleLore - the stories, the products and technology innovations and the cultural icons that made A
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Speaker Series
The Mars Exploration Rover Project – How Spirit and Opportunity Got to Mars
Monday, July 28, 2003 6:00 PM
Pete Theisinger, the Manager of the Mars Exploration Rover Project through its development, and now Manager of the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory Project, will describe the challenges of developing the two Mars Exploration Rovers in just three years. He will discuss the design process, relate the myriad challenges and se
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Speaker Series
Jurassic Software: A Look Back at The Beginnings of Consumer Software
Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:30 PM
The entrepreneurs who created the first consumer-software companies gather to reminisce about the early days and recall the lessons learned in the founding of a new industry. Scott Cook is co-founder of Intuit; Doug Carlston is co-founder of Broderbund Software; Trip Hawkins is founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO. Stewa