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Computer History Museum featured in Scientific Computing: The Coming Revolution: Showcasing Two Millennia of Computing

staff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:44:15 +0000

A new signature exhibition, “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” is currently under construction at The Computer History Museum (CHM). The exhibition will be the world’s most comprehensive physical and online exploration of computing history, spanning everything from the abacus and slide rules to robots, Pong, the Internet and beyond. It will examine how computing came to be and how it has shaped the way we live today.

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Computer History Museum featured in The Silicon Valley Business Journal: Computer History Museum Adds More Space

staff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:44:26 +0000

Visitors at last night’s Computer History Museum lecture had to skirt the front entrance for the side to hear Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speak (Mary Duan has more about what the young CEO had to say about privacy and the upcoming Hollywood movie “The Social Network.�?)

By Shana Lynch

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Computer History Museum featured in Forbes: Mark Zuckerberg on Steve Jobs: He’s Great and Other Answers

staff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:24:16 +0000

On Wednesday night, Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect,” and moderator Guy Raz of NPR at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The world’s youngest billionaire was noticeably more composed and less sweaty than he was in his interview last month at the Dow Jones D8 Conference (there was no hoodie with enigmatic symbols this time either). Yet even in the comfort and informality of the setting which, in the small auditorium with only a few hundred attendees, resembled a fireside chat at times, it was clear that this was not a Chief Executive who enjoyed being on stage.

By Oliver Chiang

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Computer History Museum featured in GigaOm: Zuckerberg: People Will Always Want to Keep Some Things Private

staff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:19:52 +0000

Following a bland TV interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC News on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg came to life Thursday night at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for an event commemorating the release of David Kirkpatrick’s “The Facebook Effect.�? Maybe he just felt comfortable in the setting — an edifice constructed for the purpose of paying tribute to geeks and their contributions to the world.

By Liz Gannes

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Computer History Museum featured in PC World: MacPaint Source Code Archived Online

staff — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:14:59 +0000

If you were a Mac user in the 1980s, chances are you knew–and loved–Apple’s MacPaint drawing program, developed by Bill Atkinson. The application, which paved the way for programs like Photoshop by developing key tools like the paint bucket and lasso, has long been remembered fondly by developers and users alike–and on Tuesday, its source code was formally inaugurated into the Computer History Museum’s online collection.

By Serenity Caldwell

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Computer History Museum featured in Business Week: Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code to Computer History Museum

staff — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:53:45 +0000

One of the earliest bits of software that made the original Macintosh computer so interesting to use and unusual for its time was a drawing program called MacPaint.

Released in 1984 with the Mac, it is fondly remembered not only by those who used it, but also by computer scientists for numerous first-of-a-kind innovations. Those who spend a lot of time using Adobe Photoshop constantly use such features as the lasso tool for selecting non-rectangular shapes, and the paint bucket for filling closed areas with a pattern, and later, color. Both first appeared in MacPaint. The program was unique at the time for its ability to create graphics that could then be used in other applications.

By Arik Hesseldahl

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Computer History Museum featured in The Blog of Phil McKinney: Moderating The Plato@50 Innovations In Hardware Session at Computer History Museum (CHM)

staff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:30:36 +0000

I was recently requested by the Computer History Museum to moderate a session on Plato Hardware that was part of a two day event celebrating the 50 year aniversary of Plato.

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Computer History Museum featured in Tech Republic: Top 10 computer history Web sites

staff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:07:35 +0000

If you’re a computer history buff — or you just want to revisit the tech of your youth — check out these museum sites featuring articles, pictures, forums, and even the first TV commercials for PCs.

I love visiting computer history sites and watching computer history shows. Why? When I visit these sites, I gain a perspective on a part of my life that I did not have at the time I was passing through it. For example, when I first started programming in Applesoft on an Apple II computer, I thought it would be a great business language.

By Tim Malone

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Computer History Museum featured in Cnet: The man behind the essential geek travel guide

staff — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:18:15 +0000

I’m about to start Road Trip 2010, my fifth annual journey through a region of the United States in search of some of the most interesting places to write about and photograph.

As in previous years, the trip will focus heavily on what interests me–and hopefully my readers–as a self-professed geek. After all, this blog is called Geek Gestalt. And that will take me to high-tech research labs, military bases, a motorcycle factory, NASA facilities, and much more.

By Daniel Terdiman

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Computer History Museum featured in Mashable: Tech Tourism: 10 Great Geek Destinations

staff — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:44:09 +0000

As summer approaches, our thoughts turn to taking a break. Rather than bring you boring beaches or tacky theme parks, we’re planning pilgrimages for our inner- geek.

From the birth of Silicon Valley, to the inception of Twitter ( ), we’ve pinpointed ten places across America that should be of particular interest to those with a passion for tech and social media.

By Amy-Mae Elliott

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Computer History Museum featured in ChannelWeb: Educating An Industry

staff — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:33:55 +0000

Several hundred alumni of the groundbreaking PLATO program for computer-assisted learning turned up at the Computer History Museum this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of PLATO.

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Computer History Museum featured in eWeek: IT Infrastructure: Safeguarding the Legacies and Lore of IT

staff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:47:46 +0000

At age 31 years, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., has established itself as a world-class repository of computing artifacts in Silicon Valley, where many of its exhibits were first created.

By Chris Preimesberger

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Computer History Museum adopts HP publishing system

staff — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:07:12 +0000

Computer History Museum News: The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has started printing its various scholarly publications using a Hewlett-Packard on-demand system.

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A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself

Tina Salcedo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:56:28 +0000

Computer History Museum News: Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life’s work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn’t very good at politics and fundraising, so he never got the financial backing to finish any of his elaborate machine designs. For decades, even his fans weren’t certain whether his computing machines would have worked.

By Laura Sydell

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The Most Revolutionary Videogames of All Time

Tina Salcedo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:08:40 +0000

Computer History Museum News: Think “Rock Band” is revolutionary? Well, not compared to the first video music game ever: “PaRappa the Rapper.” First released in Japan in late 1996 for the original Sony PlayStation, “PaRappa” was the first music (or rhythm) game ever. Featuring an animated rapping dog, PaRappa was eventually released in North America in October 1997 and went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, paving the way for mega-hits like “Guitar Hero” (2005) and the “Rock Band” series (2007).

By Katy Finneran

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WEB VIDEO EXTRA: Interview with Marc Weber, Computer History Museum

Tina Salcedo — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:24:20 +0000

Computer History Museum News: Forty years ago the first data was sent between the first two nodes of the Internet’s predecessor, the ARPANET, charting a path that would change our lives forever. We talk with Marc Weber, founding curator of the Internet History Program, about this historic milestone. (Edited by Emmanuel Hapsis) With Marc Weber, Founding Curator of the Internet History Program.

By Belva Davis

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Why Email No Longer Rules

Tina Salcedo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:18:27 +0000

Computer History Museum News: Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.

By Jessica Vascellero

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Retelling Computer History

Tina Salcedo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:37 +0000

Computer History Museum News: The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., has long been an engineering geek’s wonderland, boasting a collection of machines that include the first Apple (AAPL) prototype (signed by Steve Wozniak), an original IBM (IBM) PC, and an early Google (GOOG) server.

By Aaron Ricadela

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Intel Co-founder Moore Looks Back on a Legendary IT Career

Tina Salcedo — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:09 +0000

Computer History Museum News: Since Dr. Gordon E. Moore helped start two important semiconductor makers, Fairchild and Intel, information technology has evolved a hundredfold. Most of that development is due to the successful implementation of the silicon-based integrated processor: squeezing down transistors, resistors and other elements into smaller and smaller forms onto silicon wafers.

By Chris Preimesberger

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Tina Salcedo — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:01:24 +0000

Post: Computer History Museum News: Jay Last is one of the traitorous eight who left Shockley Semiconductor to create Fairchild Semiconductor and the first ever integrated circuit

What will the next 50-years bring to the semiconductor industry?

Well, hard to find a better person to answer that question than Jay Last, one of the responsible for the past 50-years of semiconductor innovation.

By Jean Baptiste-Su

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