Computing in Your Pocket: The Prehistory of the iPhone in Silicon Valley
On Thursday, March 2, four pioneering Silicon Valley technologists shared the stage at the Computer History Museum (CHM), turning the clock back three decades and exploring the prehistory of the...
View Article“Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play
At the dawn of the modern computing era teenager Laura Lehmer Gould and her brother Donald Lehmer were the youngest “un-programmers.” That is because ENIAC, one of the world’s first general-purpose...
View ArticleComputing for the Whole World: A Conversation with iPod & iPhone Inventor...
Tony Fadell doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. His parents were neither engineers nor scientists. As a young boy he grew up moving frequently because his father was in “the rag business,” as he...
View ArticleCreating Magic: A Conversation with Original iPhone Engineers & Software Team...
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after it acquired NeXT, he brought with him a close-knit group of engineers. One of them was Scott Forstall, a young software designer who had come to NeXT...
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