Press Releases

06 Jun 2013	Prince Philippe of Belgium and Top Ministers to visit the Computer History Museum Visit is part of a major trade delegation to Silicon Valley; The Museum and the Mundaneum also deepen ties for content exchange
04 Mar 2013	The Computer History Museum Announces its 2013 Fellow Award Honorees Computer Graphics, Early Computing, The Networked World To Be Celebrated at Annual Awards Ceremony on April 27, 2013
01 Mar 2013	Tech Titans Battle Poker Pros at the Computer History Museum Featuring Top Tech Executives from Google, Apple, Intel, Along With Venture Capitalist and Pokers Biggest Stars Playing for Charity. To Be Filmed for National TV
17 Jan 2013	Computer History Tech Giants Join Computer History Museums New Honorary Council
16 Jan 2013	Computer History Museums Get Invested Program receives Prestigious Awards for Excellence in Education
14 Jan 2013	Computer History Museums Revolutionaries Television Series Renewed for a Second Season on KQED Revolutionaries includes in-depth interviews with Marissa Mayer, Bill Ford, Elon Musk, and other tech luminaries
02 Jul 2012	Computer History Museum acquires historic Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks Texas Instruments donates early engineering chronicles of Silicon Valley innovation
23 Jun 2012	Computer History Museum Launches New Exhibit on Google Street View Exploring how surrogate travel has transformed our ideas about going places
20 Jun 2012	Computer History Museum 2013 Fellow Award Nominations Are Now Open
15 May 2012	Computer History Museum Announces Russian Semiconductor Science Project Major support for Russian Semiconductor Science Project is provided by Russian Venture Company
28 Feb 2012	Turing and His Times Top Computing Museums Link Up to Honour Computer Pioneers
19 Jan 2012	The Computer History Museum Announces its 2012 Fellow Award Honorees Artificial Intelligence, Timesharing, and ARM Processor Architecture Celebrated at Annual Awards Ceremony
14 Dec 2011	Computer History Museum Receives Google.org Grant for Digital Repository Preserving and Creating Access to Original Digital and Digitized Artifacts
05 Dec 2011	Computer History Museum Launches New Online Steve Jobs Exhibit Features rare footage of Jobs talking about early days of Apple
12 Jul 2011	Computer History Museum Receives Prestigious HP Catalyst Award to Foster Innovative STEM Education Collaborations Globally
12 Jan 2011	COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUMS MAJOR NEW EXHIBITION OPENS Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing
01 Nov 2010	Computer History Museum Appoints Valley Veterans Raymie Stata and Rich Redelfs to Board of Directors Longtime Yahoo! technologist and Foundation Capital General Partner join Museum's Board as it nears the launch of Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing
07 Sep 2010	Computer History Museum Appoints Greg Papadopoulos to Board of Directors New trustee brings experience from Sun Microsystems, HP and Honeywell to help the Museum preserve for posterity the artifacts and stories of computing history
20 May 2010	Computer History Museum to Host PLATO@50 Conference Two-Day Free Conference Commemorates PLATO's Amazing Legacy and Wide Influence; Features PLATO Creator and Plasma Display Co-Inventor Don Bitzer; Microsoft's Ray Ozzie; Brian Dear of PLATO History Foundation
21 Apr 2010	The Computer History Museum Kicks Off Commemorative 'Net@40' Speaker Series Year-Long Speaker Series Features Renowned Security Experts, Networking Pioneer Bob Taylor, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and Others in Conversations with NPR
23 Feb 2010	The Computer History Museum Heads for the Cloud Readers Can Now Print Museum Publications On-Demand Using HP's MagCloud Service
04 Nov 2009	KTEH and Computer History Museum Kick Off Internet Scavenger Hunt Celebrating the 40th Birthday of the "net" with Virtual Time Capsule and Global Search for Most Internet-related Stories and Artifacts
27 Oct 2009	The Computer History Museum, SRI International, and BBN Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of First ARPANET Transmission
05 Oct 2009	The Computer History Museum Receives Connecting to Collections Bookshelf From the Institute of Museum and Library Services
01 Jul 2009	The Computer History Museum Launches New Exhibit to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Integrated Circuit "The Silicon Engine" Maps Out Evolution of Semiconductors
15 Jun 2009	The Computer History Museum Announces its 2009 Fellow Award Honorees Robert R. Everett, Don Chamberlin and Team of Faggin, Hoff, Mazor and Shima to be Inducted into the Museum's Hall of Fellows
02 Jun 2009	The Computer History Museum Makes Historic Apple Documents Available to Public Apple Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan and Preliminary Confidential Offering Memorandum Now Accessible on CHM Website
06 May 2009	The Computer History Museum Hosts IC@50 Events on May 6 and 8 to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Integrated Circuit Gordon Moore, Jay Last, Brian Halla and Other Tech Luminaries Share Personal Histories and Industry Perspective on the Evolution of the Semiconductor
28 Apr 2009	The Computer History Museum Launches Its Education Program CHM Expands Executive Team to Kick Off Education Focus
31 Mar 2009	The Computer History Museum Extends Its Exhibition of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 One of the earliest automatic computing engine designs to remain at CHM until end of 2009
10 Mar 2009	The Computer History Museum Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Integrated Circuit with "Salute to the Semiconductor" CHM's Year-long Program Honors the Revolutionary Impact of ICs
21 Jan 2009	Harvard Business School Professor Richard S. Tedlow Joins the Computer History Museum as First Resident Scholar Appointment Represents Major Step Toward Museum's Long-Term Goal of Establishing Permanent Research Center to Study the Impact of Computing
20 Nov 2008	The Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellow Awards Nominations Are Now Open
08 Jul 2008	The Computer History Museum Appoints John C. Hollar as President and Chief Executive Officer
18 Jun 2008	The Computer History Museum Announces the 2008 Fellow Awards Recipients Jean Bartik, Bob Metcalfe and Linus Torvalds to be Inducted to the Museum's Prestigious Hall of Fellows
05 May 2008	The Computer History Museum Debuts Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, On Display for the First Time in North America See the Five-Ton Computing Engine Come to Life, Starting May 10, 2008
28 Jan 2008	"The Silicon Engine" Website, Now Hosted by the Computer History Museum, Tells the Story of One of the Most Important Technical Innovations of the 20th Century
16 Dec 2007	LSI Marks 60th Anniversary Of Transistor Manufacturer Donates Replica of First Transistor to Computer History Museum
02 Nov 2007	Computer History Museum Appoints Silicon Valley Pioneer, Industry Leader Donald J. Massaro to Board of Trustee
01 Nov 2007	Computer History Museum and Web History Center Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Internet Milestone Industry Pioneers Gather to Commemorate the First Major TCP-based Internetwork Demonstration
19 Oct 2007	PRSA Silicon Valley and The Computer History Museum To Host "Tech Media Predicts '08" Silicon Valley’s must-attend event will feature top media influencers discussing what’s hot – and what’s not – in coming year
12 Sep 2007	Ford Donates CRAY T-932 Supercomputer to the Computer History Museum "In its day, it truly was a feat of engineering genius," - Chuck Schwab, Ford Numerically Intensive Computing supervisor.
10 Sep 2007	Computer History Museum Names Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David Patterson and Charles Thacker to List of Fellow Award Honorees; Celebrates Twentieth Anniversary of Fellow Award Program Forty-Four Stories Over Twenty Years
20 Aug 2007	Fairchild Semiconductor Celebrates 50th Anniversary in October at Computer History Museum Fairchild Luminaries and Alumni Gather to Honor and Explore Company's Lasting Impact on the World
03 Aug 2007	Computer History Museum Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for Collections Cataloging and Reconciliation Project
07 Jun 2007	SAP Donation Helps Computer History Museum Procure Rare European Computer Collection Computer History Museum Accepts Largest Single Acquisition to Date, Supported by Generosity of SAP
04 Jun 2007	Media Advisory from The Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley and The Computer History Museum
30 May 2007	Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers Featuring Machines from the Computer History Museum
02 May 2007	Computer History Museum Awarded Grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Document Semiconductor History
03 Apr 2007	Introducing “Digital Crossroads,” a New Silicon Valley Forum Exploring Technology’s Impact on Our Daily Lives First Event -- “Taming Gaming in the Home” Thursday, April 19, 2007
03 Jan 2007	Media Advisory: To our Computer History Museum media community...
15 Dec 2006	Computer History Museum Joins Web History Center Effort to Preserve History of the Web
08 Dec 2006	The Computer History Museum and The Intel Museum to Hold Celebratory Event for The 35th Anniversary of The Intel® 4004 Microprocessor. New Intel Museum 4004 Exhibit to Debut on November, 15, 2006.
16 Oct 2006	Museum gears up to tell global computing story Prominent U.K.-based curator joins Silicon Valley museum to develop international "Timeline of Computing History" exhibit; significant international computing objects added to Museum's growing collection
13 Oct 2006	Leading computing pioneers Sir Tony Hoare, Robert Kahn, Butler Lampson and Marvin Minsky to be honored by museum Honorees' diverse accomplishments span the co-founding of the field of artificial intelligence to the development of the Quicksort algorithm to pioneering lasting contributions to internetworking and scientific research.
12 Jul 2006	Robert N. Miner Software Curator Named For Computer History Museum Apple Computer senior software engineering veteran joins Computer History Museum team
07 Jun 2006	Computer History Museum Announces New Sunday Hours of Operation New Dates and Times for PDP-1 Restoration Demonstrations Are Also Announced
23 May 2006	Computer History Museum Presents An Evening with Robert Price: The Control Data Story In Conversation with Mel Stuckey Retired Chairman of the Board and CEO of Control Data Corporation (now Ceridian Corporation) to speak in Mountain View
10 May 2006	Computer History Museum To Hold DEC PDP-1 Celebratory Event With Restoration Lecture and Demonstration
29 Mar 2006	Computer History Museum Adds Heidi Sinclair To Its Board of Trustees 20-year Technology Industry Veteran to Provide Valuable Expertise and Perspective for Museum's Growth
14 Feb 2006	Vice President Operations Named For Computer History Museum Arts and cultural facilities veteran joins Computer History Museum team
06 Feb 2006	Fiftieth Anniversary of the Company that put the Silicon in Silicon Valley "The Rise of Silicon Valley: From Shockley Labs to Fairchild Semiconductor" February 27 Event to Discuss the Legacy of Shockley Semiconductor presented by the Computer History Museum and SEMI
01 Feb 2006	Social Computing: From Message Boards to Blogs & Beyond Odysseys In Technology, The Computer History Museum Speaker Series Sponsored by Sun Labs, presents a Valentine's Day discussion on Social Computing
04 Jan 2006	Computer History Museum Presents an Evening with Michael Ruettgers Former Chairman of information management giant EMC and one of Business Week.s World's Top 25 Executives to speak in Mountain View
28 Nov 2005	The Computer History Museum Presents An Evening with Paul Baran 2005 Computer History Museum Fellow Award winner and father of packet switching featured in conversation with Stanford Science and Technology Collections curator, Henry Lowood
21 Oct 2005	Computer History Museum to Feature an Evening Tracing Cold War Spying, Intrigue and the Origins of a Soviet Computer technology Hub Event co-hosted by the US-Russia Technology Symposium examines for the first-time ever the story documenting Soviet technology developments associated with members of the legendary Rosenberg spy ring
17 Oct 2005	Gates Foundation Gives $15 Million to Computer History Museum Donation to Museum's campaign ranks as largest gift to date
12 Oct 2005	Computer History Museum to Host Public Discussion of the National Science Foundation's Large-Scale Computing Research Efforts for the Future Rare west coast public forum and gathering of the Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee, including Computer History Museum Fellow, Vint Cerf, and other luminaries
12 Oct 2005	Chief Financial Officer Named for Computer History Museum High-tech veteran brings rich experience to Computer History Museum
10 Oct 2005	The Computer History Museum Presents An Evening with Ivan Sutherland Computer History Museum Fellow Award winner to share link between research and fun Event caps Museum's Fellow Awards week
23 Sep 2005	Four Computer Industry Pioneers to be Honored at the Computer History Museum's Fellow Awards Dinner & Ceremony Honorees' diverse accomplishments span invention of the "mouse" to development of computer graphics
15 Sep 2005	Computer History Museum Presents The 40th Anniversary of Moore's Law with Gordon Moore and Carver Mead
01 Sep 2005	Odysseys In Technology, The Computer History Museum Speaker Series Sponsored by Sun Labs, Presents An Evening with Autodesk CEO, Carol Bartz
17 Aug 2005	Computer History Museum Presents The History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective In conjunction with New Exhibit Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess
11 Aug 2005	Computer History Museum Debuts New Exhibit, Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess Designed to appeal to a wide range of visitors, and created with the guidance of the world's top thinkers in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer design and chess, this flagship exhibit will examine the drama behind the game considered by many