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August 28, 2013

Oct 1, 2013 IEEE CNSV meeting: Intel's Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor

Panelists:  Ted Hoff, Intel (1968-1983)                   Dave House, Honeywell (Intel customer) and Intel (1974-1996)  

August 10, 2013

Conversation with Inventor Ted Hoff @ Flash Memory Summit-Aug 15th in Santa Clara, CA

A free session at the Flash Memory Summit- Aug 12-15, 2013 at Santa Clara Convention Center:  

August 8, 2013

iCHSTM 2013

Almost two weeks ago I was at the 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (iCHSTM) in Manchester, England.

May 26, 2013

Bob Metcalfe's Closing Keynote at Ethernet Innovation Summit - May 23, 2013, CHM in Mt View, CA

Bob Metcalfe's key points on the Ethernet Innovation Summit are summarized in this article: http://community.comsoc.org/blogs/alanweissberger/bob-metcalfes-closing-keynote-ethernet-innovation-summit-may-23-2013-chm-mt-vi

May 23, 2013

Going Once, Going Twice...A Working Apple 1

Have you been longing for a working Apple 1 computer? Or maybe a reproduction of a Pascaline?

April 9, 2013

A Wonderful Adventure in Exhibition Space

Somehow my career has repeatedly led me into doing unexpected and wonderful things.

April 8, 2013

Alan Turing’s Earthshaking Philosophical Insight

Being the curator of the Alan Turing Year exhibition at the Jerusalem Science Museum, I was invited to sit on a panel dedicated to Turing’s legacy at the ICON Science Fiction, Imagination and The Future fes

March 13, 2013

CHM lecture: IBM Fellow Grady Booch on Computing: The Human Experience

Introduction: In this informative March 11, 2013 lecture at the Computer History Museum (CHM), Grady Booch asked and tried to answer this question:  "What does it take to make "sentient" devices (that can feel, sense,  think and reason) out of silicon and software?"

February 6, 2013

The Day IBM Let Married Women Work

It's hard to imagine not being able to work at IBM if you're a woman who happens to be married, but  Gizmodo has published a memo from January 10, 1951  that discusses a "temporary modification" of IBM's p