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News IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the most of its computing... [15 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur hall of the Natural History Museum in west London. John Bernstein - silcon.com editor 1997 - 2002: "We chose the Dinosaur Room of the Natural History Museum for the launch of silicon.com. [07 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print dinosaurs it has now replaced - the publication weathered the storms following the dot-com boom to take its place as the leading destination for... [07 Jul 2008]
Museum of computing looks for new home
News A museum dedicated to the history of computing is looking for a new home and its collection has gone into storage. Staff at The Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given office space to store its thousands... [02 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Intel demoed some of its cutting-edge tech at the Computer History Museum in California. This is a mobile phone vending machine on show at Fujitsu's customer experience centre in Surrey where the company's future vision of retail is laid out. [30 Jun 2008]
In his own words: Bill Gates' best quotes
News Speech at the Computer History Museum, InfoWorld magazine (2001). A 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. Here's silicon.com's pick of the best: The early days… There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. [26 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo Company researchers demonstrated this and other cutting-edge research from their labs during Research@Intel Day at the Computer History Museum in California, US. This robotic arm and hand developed by researchers at Intel's personal robotic lab in... [18 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit: Computer History Museum [12 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo The reincarnated machine is currently being exhibited in the Computer History Museum in California. Click here for photos of it being installed in the museum. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo The commissioned machine was delivered to the Computer History Museum in California, US and is scheduled to be exhibited there for six months starting 1 May. Robinson brought his scaled-down model to the Computer History Museum. [10 Apr 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no firm offers to save it. The Museum of Computing in Swindon will lose its base at the University of Bath in Swindon when the Oakdale campus... [01 Apr 2008]
Network Access Protection Helps Art Museum Share Information More Securely
White Paper The museum has a long history of making art accessible to the public, and the tradition of accessibility also extends to its technology environment. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is a museum in the Netherlands that showcases Dutch art from the Middle... [29 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo This is one of the first transistors, a replica of which has been donated to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in California by LSI Corporation to mark the device's 60th birthday. They don't make them like this anymore - silicon.com... [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History. The original SpaceShipOne, which flew to space three... [24 Jan 2008]
