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By Heidi HackfordAuthor Margaret O’Mara (center) in conversation with tech policy expert Tom Kalil (right) and moderator John Markoff (left).Silicon Valley tech workers benefit every day from multigenerational...

As the world looks to technology to address many of its major challenges, from epidemics to climate change to poverty, CHM finds itself reflecting on the current state of the region it calls home. How can Silicon Valley...

“All of us must work to put him there” — JFK (1961)Buzz Aldrin at work on the Moon, July 20, 1969. Photo: NASA“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is...

December 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of Earthrise, by astronaut William Anders, an inspiration and reminder to humanity for responsible space exploration and care for Earth. Credit: NASANew Discoveries, Technology...

Make It So! Science Fiction, Computing & SpaceBy David C. Brock, Curator & Director, Software History CenterThere is a cultural trope that computing’s makers and avid users are devotees of science fiction...

NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets up the Early Apollo Scientifi c Experi-ments Package in this pho-to by Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969, after their historic Moon landing. Credit: NASAThe Computing...

What can women who thrive in the competitive, male-dominated world of Silicon Valley venture capital teach us in the meantime? Plenty. That became clear in recent back-to-back events sponsored by the Exponential Center...

“Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell — Google leaders Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle in Conversation with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki,” April 26,...

By Marc WeberEditor’s Note: This is part of an ongoing series dedicated to the web anniversaries of 2019, including the 50th anniversary of general purpose computer networks connected over the ARPANET, the 30th...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Celebrates 50 Years As an Independent Computer Chip SupplierAMD compares itself with its competitors in this 1983 parody of The New Yorker magazine’s “View of the World from...

By Heidi HackfordVenture capitalists Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, William “Bill” Draper III, and C. Richard “Dick” Kramlich discuss the industry they helped to build.On March 28, 2019, in an event jointly...

IBM 650 Electronic Data Processing System, November 1956. Robert W. “Bob” Bemer — who worked at Lockheed’s Missile Systems Division in Van Nuys and who would become its IBM 650’s power...

By Marc WeberThirty years ago this month, physicist turned programmer Tim Berners-Lee first proposed what became the World Wide Web. A few months later he resubmitted the proposal with his colleague Robert Cailliau....

“Conducting Creativity: Orchestrions by Mark Mothersbaugh” (detail) on exhibit in the CHM Learning Lab.In July of 2017, I embarked on what has become something of a professional obsession: documenting the impact of...

Whirlwind computer room, 1952. Collection of the Computer History Museum, 102680793.I cannot recall the exact moment when I resolved to meet Joe Thompson, but my email files tell me it was on or before December 4, 2017....

Madeleine Moment Connects Moore’s Law ArtifactsGordon Moore (1962), Director, and Harry Sello (1964), Fairchild Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA.In one of the most famous examples of memory recall in...

This large box was the interface between the ARPANET (a predecessor to the Internet) and a computer connected to the network. Collection of the Computer History Museum, Collection of the Computer History...

By Guy Fedorkow MIT MuseumDavid C. Brock Center for Software History Computer History MuseumMost of us are intuitively familiar with what we will call “auditory maintenance.” The faint cry of a child wakes you...

By Heidi HackfordInnovation expert Clayton Christensen in conversation with Scott Cook, cofounder and chair of Intuit.When Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma came out in 1997, it disrupted the...

CHM Live│ Episode 7 │August 29, 2018Originally hosted at the Computer History Museum on September 13, 2017. For more information about CHM Live, please click here. To register for upcoming events, please check our...

From the Archives Podcast│Episode 5 │August 7, 2018Evelyn Berezin was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1925. She received her bachelor’s degree in physics in 1945 from New York University, followed by an Atomic...