Thursday Mar 28 , 2019 Speaker Series
Ada Lovelace: the Making of a Computer Scientist Join two of the co-authors of Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice for a discussion of Ada Lovelace’s life in mathematics and its ...
Saturday Mar 30 , 2019 Education Event
Design_Code_Build The Design_Code_Build program welcomes students in grades 6 through 8 to participate in one-day events that provide engaging hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, ...
Net@50: Did Engelbart's “Mother of All Demos” Launch the Connected World?

Net@50: Did Engelbart's “Mother of All Demos” Launch the Connected World?

In 1968, Engelbart and his staff put on the so-called “mother of all demos” at a major conference in San Francisco, showing off all the features they had developed over the years. For 90 minutes, the stunned audience of over 1,000 computer professionals witnessed many of the features of modern computing for the first time: live videoconferencing, document sharing, word processing, windows, and a strange pointing device jokingly referred to as “the mouse.” Elements on the screen linked to other elements using associative links—or “hypertext.”

Engelbart's lifelong goal was to make computers into tools that would augment human intelligence for solving universal problems. His lab pioneered the mouse, multiple windows, and networking. We're celebrating the 50th anniversary with newly released interviews by journalist John Markoff and a number of events exploring the ongoing impact and lessons learned from Engelbart's historic demo.

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Museum Highlights

Remembering Larry Roberts, CHM Fellow Award Honoree <br> (1937–2018)

Remembering Larry Roberts, CHM Fellow Award Honoree
(1937–2018)

With great sadness we say goodbye to 2017 CHM Fellow Larry Roberts. Following his early work in computer graphics and networking, he was chief architect of the ARPANET, the US Department of Defense network that was a key building block of the later Internet. He was a champion of the x.25 networking standard and a principal of the pioneering commercial networking corporation Telenet.

#WeToo: Insights from Silicon Valley Women in Tech

#WeToo: Insights from Silicon Valley Women in Tech

In recognition of Women’s History Month, the Exponential Center at CHM is launching a new series—Women’s Work: Perspectives on Gender in Tech, a collection of short videos and discussion guides that explore a variety of topics on women in tech, such as gender and job stereotypes, leadership, and unconscious bias.

Hacking Our Security: Digital Resilience for the Next Cyber Threat

Hacking Our Security: Digital Resilience for the Next Cyber Threat

Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of cybersecurity analytics firm RedSeal and national security expert and Brunswick Partner Siobhan Gorman discussed Rothrock’s timely new book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?