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2004          
July 28 The Mars Exploration Rover Project - How Spirit and Opportunity Got to Mars Peter C Theisinger - - Download WM9
June 22 "Inktomi's Wild Ride: A Personal View of the Internet Bubble" Eric Brewer, founder of Inktomi - - -
June 17 "Envisioning the Connected World" Jerry Fiddler, Founder, Board Member - Wind River - - -
June 10 "Then and Now: Computer Graphics in Games" Jordan Mechner, Rand Miller, and Will Wright with Vince Broady - - Download WM9
May 20 "We the Media" Dan Gillmor, Business and Technology Columnist - San Jose Mercury News - - -
May 19 "ROLM Corporation, Competing with Giants" Gene Richeson, Ken Oshman, Walter Loewenstern, Robert - - -
Apr 8 "Making and Measuring Effective Virtual Environments" Frederick Brooks - - -
Apr 7 "360 Revolution" Erich Bloch, Fred Brooks, Jr. and Bob Evans with Nick Donofrio - - Download WM9
Mar 25 "The Osborne Odyssey" Lee Felsenstein, Richard Frank, Jack Melchor, with John Markoff - - Download WM9
Mar 18 "The Next Big Thing" Bill Coleman - - -
Feb 19 "My Life Bits" Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell - - -
Feb 3 "Mom Loved Him Best: Bert & Ivan Sutherland with Bob Sproull" Bert & Ivan Sutherland, with Bob Sproull - - -
Jan 22 The Macintosh Marketing Story: Fact and Fiction, 20 Years Later Mike Murray, Mike Boich, Andy Cunningham, Joanna Hoffman, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Scheier - - -
Jan 15 "It's the Media, Stupid!" Paul Saffo - - -
2003          
Dec 18 The Impact of Future Technology on Society John Gage - - -
Dec 3 A Dozen Precursors of Fortran Donald Knuth - - Download WM9
Nov 20 Lessons from Game Design Will Wright - - -
Nov 12 The Road Less Taken: The Technology Transitions of Suhas Patil Suhas Patil - - Download WM9
Oct 23 An Evening with David Wheeler David Wheeler - - Download WM9
Oct 23 Ubiquitous Open Source: "What Does It Mean for the Software Industry?" Mitch Kapor - - -
Oct 22 Documents, Data and People: World Wide Webs Tim Berners-Lee - - Download WM9
Sep 25 Three Decades of Innovation: Philippe Kahn's Personal Stories Philippe Kahn - - -
Sep 18 Distributed Computing Economics Jim Gray - - -
June 10 Jurassic Software: A Look Back at The Beginnings of Consumer Software Scott Cook, Doug Carlston and Trip Hawkins with Stewart Alsop - - Download WM9
May 29 "The Future of Software Development" series Jaron Lanier - - -
Apr 24 "The Future of Software Development" series Alan Kay - - -
Apr 8 The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston and Mitch Kapor with Charles Simonyi - - -
Mar 27 Are you Agile or Are you Fragile? Scott Ambler - - -
Mar 5 Nature or Nurture: My Life in Technology, So Far Judy Estrin with Yogen Dalal - - Purchase
Feb 13 A New Kind of Science - And Technology For The Coming Century Stephen Wolfram - - -
Feb 10 How Databases Changed the World Chris Date, Herb Edelstein, Bob Epstein, Ken Jacobs, Pat Selinger, Roger Sippl and Michael Stonebraker, with George Schussel - - Purchase
Jan 23 The Road Not Taken Richard P. Gabriel - - -
Jan 21 Ada Byron Lovelace: To Dream Tomorrow John Fuegi and Jo Francis - - -
Jan 7 25 Years of Hennessy and Patterson John Hennessy and Dave Patterson - - -
2002          
Dec 10 An Evening with Steve Wozniak Steve Wozniak - Woz in low resolution Windows Media Player_ Woz in high resolution Windows Media Player
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Dec 5 Imagine This Alan Cooper - - -
Nov 12 Adobe Systems - The Founders' Perspective John Warnock and Chuck Geschke with Bernard Peuto - - Download WM9
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Oct 3 Watching the Alpha Geeks Tim O'Reilly - - -
Sep 30 Pioneers of Venture Capital Bill Draper, Pitch Johnson, Burt McMurtry, Tom Perkins, Arthur Rock, Don Valentine with Gordon Davidson - - Purchase
Sep 19 The Revolution that Made Computing Personal Mitch Waldrop - - -
Sep 12 The Limits of Software Grady Booch - - -
Sep 5 Half a Century of Disk Drives and Philosophy From IBM to Seagate Al Shugart - - -
Jun 4 Early Technology Marketing Efforts: An Evening with Regis McKenna Regis McKenna - - -
May 21 The History and Future of Electronic Photography Carver Mead - - -
May 7 Shall We Play a Game? The Early Years of Computer Gaming Steve Russell and Nolan Bushnell with Stewart Brand - - Purchase
Apr 16 Assembling the Integrated Data Store (IDS) Charlie Bachman - - -
Mar 26 Outracing the Fire: 50 Years (and Counting) of Technology and Change Doug Engelbart with Pierluigi Zappacosta - - -
Feb 26 The PalmPilot Story Panel Discussion with Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins, Ed Colligan, and Andrea Butter - - Download WM9
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Jan 16 Putting the Silicon in Silicon Valley: The Birth of the Semiconductor Industry in Silicon Valley Charlie Sporck - - -
2001          
Dec 6 Unwinnable Wars: Personal Perspectives on Technology Leadership Eric Schmidt - - -
Nov 20 2001: HAL's Legacy - A documentary film by David Stork David Stork - - -
Nov 8 Questions Answered Don Knuth - - -
Oct 24 What is The Real Virtue in Virtual Reality? Fredrick P. Brooks Jr. - - -
Oct 17 Early Computer Mouse Encounters Panel Discussion with Daniel Borel, Stuart Card, Doug Engelbart, Bill English, Jean-Daniel Nicoud and Niklaus Wirth - - -
Oct 11 From Smalltalk to Squeak Dan Ingalls - - -
Sep 19 Origins of Linux Linus Torvalds - - -
Sep 17
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The Revolution That Made Computing Personal Mitch Waldrop - - -
Sep 5 The Founding of Amdahl Corporation Gene Amdahl - - -
Jun 4 The XEROX Alto: A Personal Retrospective Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson - - -
Apr 18 The Internet: 21st Century Tidal Wave Vinton Cerf - - -
Mar 8 The Origins of Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy - - -
Feb 6 It's 2001: Where's HAL? David Stork - - -
Jan 23 The Denelcor HEP Burton Smith - - -
Jan 9 The Story of Java James Gosling - - -
2000          
Nov 8 The Stretch-HARVEST Compiler Frances Allen - - -
Oct 21 Colossus Rebuild Project Anthony Sale - - -
Oct 11 A Cartoonist's View of Computer History Richard Tennant - - -
Sep 28 Manchester Univ. Transistor Computer Richard Grimsdale - - -
Sep 6 BEHEMOTH: High-Tech Nomadism Steven K. Roberts - - -
Apr 13 The History of Beowulf PC Clusters Thomas Sterling - - -
Mar 23 Early Computer Crime Various - - -
Jan 13 Recollections of Early Paint Systems Smith, Shoup - - -
1999          
Oct 28 The Birth of the Integrated Circuit Gordon Moore - - -
Oct 1 Konrad Zuse Colloquium Various - - -
May 13 Computer Development at Fujitsu Shigeru Sato - - -
Apr 8 Lessons from 'Toy Story' & 'A Bug's Life' Edwin Catmull - - -
Mar 4 Collecting and Conserving Computers Doron Swade - - -
Mar 3 Babbage's Calculating Engine Doron Swade - - -
Feb 15 Doing Computer History in Internet Time Paul Ceruzzi - - -
1998          
Sep 15 Various YES - -
Jun 17 The Xerox Star Runs One More Time Various YES - -
May 19 Various YES - -
Jan 29 The Computing Environment at Livermore in the 1970's Jed Donnelly, John Fletcher, and Dick Watson - - -
1997          
Oct 28 Origins of the Apple Human Interface Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa YES - -
Jun 12 The World's First COBOL Compilers Bromberg Lawson YES - -
Mar 25 Birth of the Laser Printer Gary Starkweather YES - -

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