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Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum, located in Silicon Valley, is a bit far away from UCLA for convenient visits, but it has video archives of many of the events in its Speaker Series. Here are just a few of contemporary interest:

  • An Evening with Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham in Conversation with John Gage
  • Social Computing: From Message Boards to Blogs & Beyond
  • Sun Founders Panel
  • The History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective History of Computer Chess: An AI Perspective
  • A Human Story of Computer Animation
  • Innovation is Nothing New: 100-Odd Years of Venture Capital Wisdom
  • Information Security—Before, During, and After Public-Key Cryptography – with Whitfield Diffie

They also have a bunch of publications:

  • http://www.computerhistory.org/core/
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