My wonderful colleague Hansen Hsu organized this walking tour of the first Apple facilities with some of Apple's first employees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCV...

A short documentary by the Computer History Museum on my colleague Al Kossow's incredible work to recover an essential version of Unix from a tape found at the University of Utah. youtu.be/-xlq_MPWNKk

An absolutely incredible event on the history of Apple at the Computer History Museum. The launch of David Pogue's new book, "Apple: The First Fify Years." www.youtube.com/live/w8wt0LB...

> @covie93.bsky.social

This is how he gets the public bailout.

2 Days Left! Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due F. 28th '26 The ACM History Committee plans to support up to five research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Graduate students through senior researchers eligible. #histsci history.acm.org/wp-content/u...

I've transcribed dozens of interviews. With rare exceptions, everyone speaks with those um/uh tics, little restarts, hesitations, and most of us speak in sentence fragments with emphases, tones, pauses that create coherence not replicable in print. Spoken and written are distinct. Translate fairly.

man I can't wait until all this is over and we can just hang around in the library and goof off, read about Cecil Beaton or whatever without a care in the world

The new episode of the Computer History Museum's "Decoding Tech" podcast features my conversation with W. Patrick McCray about his new book from MIT Press, README. open.spotify.com/episode/4h49...

Time for a look back at the code that built our world. At the Software Heritage Symposium in Paris, we're visiting the Source Code Exhibition. See it online: https://www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org #SWH10 #OpenSource

This is so enraging.

Here's the recording of my conversation with Patrick McCray (@patrickmccray.bsky.social) about his new book from MIT Press, README, at the Computer History Museum. Audio podcast to follow. youtu.be/reeVfmw4sbI

If you're in the Palo Alto area on January 20, I'll be having a conversation about my new book et al. with @dcbrock.bsky.social at the Computer History Museum. It will also be live-streamed... computerhistory.org/events/read-...

Looking for a chance to think about something fun and interesting? Join us in-person or on-line at the Computer History Museum on January 20th to hear @patrickmccray.bsky.social talk about his new book (about books about computing), README. computerhistory.org/events/read-...

If you're in the Palo Alto area on January 20, I'll be having a conversation about my new book et al. with @dcbrock.bsky.social computerhistory.org/events/read-...

New CO2-holding #batteries can store 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, stabilizing the grid when renewables need a break. It takes less than two years to build and only requires 5 hectares of flat land to construct. spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-...

Evergreen. “We’re going to hunt the National Front.” youtu.be/ubMmsu1sdMs?...

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

What is the depreciation schedule for a hyperscaler’s data center? For a non-hyperscaler? @edzitron.com? @karenhao.bsky.social? @bcmerchant.bsky.social?

Can you place a bet on Kalshi that DJT will pardon SBF?

Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

Rolling into freshman year of high school with this in-wallet.

His ROOMBA that had been sending detailed maps of his house god knows where, and bricking itself when he tried to disable the spyware INCREDIBLE freaking story Can we have Things with No Internet please, happy to pay extra

Our healthcare system isn’t broken, it’s rigged.

Nice 10 minute video on the history of Siri by my Computer History Museum colleague Marc Weber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nA...

Ken Thompson on why Unix and C have been so enduring. An excerpt from my recently published oral history with him for CHM and the ACM. youtu.be/1HyFsZ5t4tk

Happy to report that my oral history interview with Barbara Liskov -- ACM Turing Award winner and CHM Fellow -- for the Computer History Museum is now online! youtu.be/lhcGCekk4pk

My oral history interview with Ken Thompson -- of Unix, C, Go, computer chess, and other fame -- for the Computer History Museum and the ACM is now online! computerhistory.org/blog/a-compu...

History of semiconductors question: Reading about 1966 law in South Korea that offered foreign companies tax exemptions on goods manufactured there for export. This is when Fairchild and other US IC makers opened assembly factories in South Korea, creating local subsidiaries. /1

Lovely letter today from TransUnion telling me that they allowed my SSN and DOB to be hacked, and then offering me free credit monitoring and fraud assistance from...TransUnion.

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

STS and computer history people: please RT, boost, and follow @sigcisconf.bsky.social !

schadenfreudescrolling

Great panel on the effort to recover the text from the Herculaneum scrolls using digital technologies. From the Computer History Museum. youtu.be/ObbcqmWFNYs?...

Really looking forward to this upcoming event at the Computer History Museum. It is on the use of neural networks and other technologies to identify the writing on scrolls that were carbonized and buried in 79CE in Herculaneum! In-person and On-line. computerhistory.org/events/ai-de...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Saydean Zeldin, a key programmer for the Apollo Guidance Computer and a software entrepreneur, for the Computer History Museum's Oral History Program. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCTr...

Really looking forward to this upcoming event at the Computer History Museum. It is on the use of neural networks and other technologies to identify the writing on scrolls that were carbonized and buried in 79CE in Herculaneum! In-person and On-line. computerhistory.org/events/ai-de...

“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.

🖥️ In the 1980s, the race to develop accessible and affordable home computers had begun, and a British computer scientist was leading the charge. Our latest blog post explores the career of one of its pioneering programmers, Sophie Wilson. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwKtD3

TOMORROW: Join online or in-person (CA) for a dynamic & timely public forum on tech and the future of news, featuring top newsmakers, experts, and changemakers. We appreciate the support we've received from the CHM-- check out this event "Making News With Data" by following the link to register! 💻👩‍💻

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

TODAY at 2 PM ET: Join us in-person or virtually for a conversation about Building the Indigenous Internet, with Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and @lnakamura.bsky.social! 📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, University of Michigan & Zoom More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932

Highly recommended: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-chatbot

Has anyone written a straightforward Marxist analysis of the impulse to replace labor with 'AI' in our current moment, and the continual pursuit of this dream by DODGE, Trump's tariff 'calculations,' 'edtech,' consumer products, etc. despite the continual abject inadequacy of the tech?

Dick Kramlich, 1935-2025 computerhistory.org/blog/dick-kr...

Excited for this upcoming CHM event on the past, present, and future of data journalism. Registration open for in-person and on-line. As always, free! computerhistory.org/events/makin...