IBM and the 1964 World’s Fair
Just a few weeks ago, we received an interesting donation to the Museum: a commemorative punched card from the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. It’s a standard IBM punched card—a piece of card...
View ArticleThe 2014 Computer History Museum Fellows
The 2014 Computer History Museum Fellows On April 26, the Museum held its annual tribute to that special group of computing innovators it calls Fellows. Fellows are idealists, practical, driven,...
View ArticleThe World’s Smallest Computer
A new exhibit at CHM takes a look at the world’s smallest computer – the Michigan “Micro Mote.” Making things smaller has been part of electronics technology since the field’s beginnings. Smaller...
View ArticleTools of the Trade: An historical look at technology and commerce
Tools of the Trade A new display in the Computer History Museum’s Gallery area shows a sampling of objects that represent different technologies people have used over millennia to buy and sell goods....
View ArticleFirst Steps: Lectures from the Dawn of Computing
For over four decades, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has been recording the words and thoughts of the most important people in computing. The first lecture was in 1979 with Cambridge University...
View ArticleThe ECHO IV Home Computer: 50 Years Later
The Future is Already Here Science fiction writer William Gibson famously stated, “the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” Past events in the history of technology bear...
View ArticleJim Porter and the History of the Global Storage Industry
The Power of One It’s amazing what individuals can do. As Margaret Mead said, “Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that...
View Article2017 CHM Fellow Cleve Moler: Mozart of the Matrix
The Book of Nature is written in the language of Mathematics.Galileo Galilei Though thousands of years old, mathematics underwent dramatic changes in the 20th century with the development of the...
View Article2017 CHM Fellow Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Heafield Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana, on August 17, 1936. She graduated high school in 1954 and from Earlham College, with a BA in mathematics, in 1958. From simple beginnings, she...
View Article2018 Museum Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley
For a lifetime of entrepreneurship promoting the growth of the UK software industry and the advancement of women in computing.Fellow Awards Selection Committee, Computer History Museum In the 1960s,...
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