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 Steve Wozniak
Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:00 PM
Join Woz as he serves up Apple Computer history in his own unique way. Steve will describe a sequence for providing a rational understanding of many of the innovations leading to early Apple designs. He'll look at early company structure, the personalities that influenced him, and personalities within the company. In a
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Adobe Systems – The Founders’ Perspective
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:00 PM
Leading a publishing revolution... Adobe's success throughout the years is a result of a unique corporate culture, a balanced focus on the various company constituencies, and the development and promotion of products that were well ahead of the markets they addressed. As Adobe celebrates its 20th anniversary, co-foun
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Pioneers of Venture Capital
Monday, September 30, 2002 7:00 PM
Nothing ventured. Nothing Gained... How did the venture capital industry get started in Silicon Valley? Why here and not elsewhere? How has it changed? How has it stayed the same? What were the key milestones, the big obstacles, and lessons learned? Join us as we investigate the personal stories of an incredible arra
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The Revolution that Made Computing Personal
Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:00 PM
Mitch Waldrop brings us the fascinating story of JCR Licklider and The Revolution that Made Computing Personal. Licklider may well have been one of the most influential -- and least known -- people in the history of computer science. As a division director in the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in t
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Half a Century of Disk Drives and Philosophy: From IBM to Seagate
Thursday, September 5, 2002 6:00 PM
Al Shugart, whose favorite saying about leadership comes from the Taoist tradition, Find a parade and get in front of it, steps forward to share stories of the unconventional leadership style that made him a legend in the disk drive industry.
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Early Technology Marketing Efforts: An Evening with Regis McKenna
Tuesday, June 4, 2002 6:00 PM
Spend an evening with Regis McKenna, Chairman Emeritus of The McKenna Group, author, and pioneer of many of the theories and practices of technology marketing that have become commonplace today. McKenna, who has worked with many of the most recognizable companies in Silicon Valley and helped launch some of the most imp
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The History and Future of Electronic Photography
Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:00 PM
The first electronic images were captured by vacuum tubes, and more recently by solid-state sensors. Once again, the underlying photosensitive process was basically monochrome, and the efforts to convert it to a color technology show striking parallels with the earlier silver-halide approaches. In 2002, Foveon introduc
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Shall We Play a Game? The Early Years of Computer Gaming
Tuesday, May 7, 2002 6:00 PM
From their humble beginnings in the 1960s as demonstrations of computer interactivity, to a multi-billion dollar industry, computer video games have become one of the largest forms of entertainment and a major part of popular culture in America, Japan, Europe and beyond. Steven Slug Russell, inventor of the early compu
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Assembling the Integrated Data Store (IDS)
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:00 PM
Charlie Bachman, winner of the Alan M. Turing Award and Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society will describe the circumstances under which the first database management system (DBMS) came into being. The Integrated Data Store (IDS) was a unique assemblage of existing software technologies: virtual memory,
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Outracing the Fire: 50 Years and Counting of Technology and Change
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:00 PM
Doug Engelbart, thinker, inventor, and humanitarian, shares the influences and struggles behind his life of research. Although, he may be best known for his tangible evidence of productivity -- the computer mouse, display editing, outline processing, multiple remote online users of a networked processor, hyperlinking a