SOFTWARE HISTORY CENTER

Pioneering Silicon Valley software entrepreneurs share their story.

Robert W. “Bob” Bemer — who would become the IBM 650’s power user — carefully cut out the article and placed it into a scrapbook

Ann Hardy’s contributions to computing were achieved through repeated, creative branching in the face of sexist discrimination

It was 1950, a date when a small number of humans had ever seen a computer and when unabashed racism & discrimination was endemic in…

Restored program from Whirlwind’s original punched paper tape plays “Jingle Bells”

The late 1940s and early 1950s saw an uptake of the basic ideas of electronic stored-program computing, including one that became…

Video ethnographies reveal insights into a key moment at the end of the late 1980s and early 1990s: the birth of multimedia.

In conversation with Microsoft Research’s Matthias Troyer, Google Quantum AI Lab’s John Martinis, and IBM Research’s Pat Gumann

Early successful email client is released by Computer History Museum's Center for Software History

QuickTime, the pioneering mass-market digital video format for personal computers, was developed by Apple and released in 1991

PowerPoint’s characteristics were not absolute novelties when it appeared. Such elements were introduced in earlier presentation software.

Programming Inequality: Dr. Marie Hicks in Conversation with the Museum’s Center for Software History Director David C. Brock

“There is no cloud,” goes the quip. “It’s just someone else’s computer.”

IARPA Director Jason Matheny talks “Why Software Matters to Government Intelligence.”

Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. But what could have happened to NeXT?