By David C. Brock A Software Entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ History With each passing year, the place of June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month seems to gain greater recognition and wider celebration. This year, I was delighted to talk to my 76-year-old aunt about her experience marching for the first time in a Pride parade-from Lambertville, New Jersey…

By Dag Spicer The Los Alamos Conference For five summer days in 1976, the first generation of computer rock stars had its own Woodstock. Coming from around the world, dozens of computing’s top engineers, scientists, and software pioneers got together to reflect upon the first 25 years of their discipline in the warm, sunny…

By David C. Brock CHM Showcases Early Computer Films, 1963–1972 From the earliest days of digital electronic computers, people have used them to make art: from pictures to poems, screenplays, and literature, from music to films. From June 1 through September 1, CHM is exhibiting a selection of early computer films made between 1963 and 1972…

By Heidi Hackford Tony Fadell On Building Great Things Tony Fadell had a hand in creating some of the most influential devices of all time, including the iPod, the iPhone, and the Nest thermostat. He also authored over 300 patents and a new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making. …

By Heidi Hackford The Story of Handspring A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades attempted to build the modern smartphone. On May 6, 2022, CHM Live shared the story of Handspring with a 30-minute documentary called Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone followed by a…

By Heidi Hackford Klara Dán von Neumann and the Birth of Computer Programming She was not just Steve Jobs in a dress. — Thomas Haigh For every Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, there are likely hundreds of remarkable women in science whose stories have never been told. That’s the premise of the Lost Women of Science Initiative, according to podcast…

By Heidi Hackford Live small so you can live large. — Stewart Brand Influencer of a Whole Generation Stewart Brand is perhaps best known for his iconic counterculture magazine The Whole Earth Catalog. Published from 1968 to 1971, the catalog, which offered essays and product reviews, sold millions of copies and won the National Book…

By Dag Spicer I hope our museum, warehouse, and archives can survive in this war. — Anton Trubnikov Russian attacks on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol have destroyed an important computer museum. It was filled with Soviet-era artifacts, and so, in essence, Russian forces destroyed their own history. …

By Heidi Hackford Founders, VCs, and Innovation Culture “Venture capital is a machine for manufacturing courage.” — Sebastian Mallaby In his new book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Mallaby tells the story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms and how their strategies…