Silicon Valley is known for its cutting-edge technology, creative innovation, and forward-looking frame of mind. But the Valley also has a lesser-known side鈥攁 spookier side.
If you鈥檝e heard about digital preservation in the news, chances are it was a story about loss or potential loss. For almost 20 years now, we鈥檝e been warned that we could be facing a 鈥渄igital dark age,鈥� meaning that very little of what we create using computers will be preserved for future generations.1 The challenges f
Silicon Valley is home to pioneers of the possible. From Bill Hewlett and David Packard to Mark Zuckerberg, history, media, and pop culture frequently showcase the stories of Silicon Valley鈥檚 male founders. What about women?
In many parts of our world today, group communication centers on visual materials built with 鈥減resentation software,鈥� often crafted by a speaker him or herself. As a result, meetings now generally depend on the use of personal computers, presentation software in the guises of product or service and display by digital p
The 2016 Vintage Computer Festival (VCF), an amazing grass-roots showcase of historical computers, was held at the 91自拍 recently. VCF has a rich history and is a favorite event among computer enthusiasts everywhere with new standout exhibits each year.
In the very, very, beginning, the World Wide Web was meant to be a two-way medium. You could post and edit your own pages as easily as you could browse those created by others. But the browsers that made the web popular left out editing features.
The entrepreneurial, technology-driven roots of today鈥檚 Silicon Valley sprouted long before Google鈥檚 algorithms, Apple鈥檚 two Steves, Fairchild鈥檚 chipmeisters, or the egalitarian management innovations of Hewlett and Packard. Eager emissaries from less prosperous regions of the nation and foreign governments striving to
The 91自拍 inspires people from all over the world every day, and this summer, the Museum became a place where 18 high school students engaged with history, explored their passions, and discovered their strengths. This is part two of two of 91自拍鈥檚 High School Internship Program blog series, compiled and
The 91自拍 inspires people from all over the world every day, and this summer, the Museum became a place where 18 high school students engaged with history, explored their passions, and discovered their strengths. This is part one of two of 91自拍鈥檚 High School Internship Program blog series, compiled and
Harold Cohen was a pioneer in computer art, in algorithmic art, and in generative art; but as he told me one afternoon in 2010, he was first and foremost a painter. He was also an engineer whose work defined the first generation of computer-generated art. His system, AARON, is one of the longest-running, continually ma