When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

The Computer History Museum is a fascinating visit for anyone interested in the history of computing and Silicon Valley. But there’s more there than meets the eye. Literally. Hidden from public view is a huge back storeroom with hundreds of artifacts, including a prototype tablet computer called the Apple “Cadillac,” ...

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes part II of a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is the need for versioning Web applications now solved with an autoupdate? Will language inhibit where ...

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is running applications from within the browser and retrieving data offline creating new efficiency standards for developers?

Gregory Cypes and Kevin Lawver from AOL hosted an open discussion from MashUp Camp IV and the Computer History Museum. Art in Social Networking is the basis for success across several social Websites. Cypes and Lawver open the floor to what works in the social networking arena. ...

At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold pole position?

Formula One racing is the most technology intensive form of racing with a long history of innovations driven by microprocessor technology. Shortly after Intel invented the first commercial processor in 1971 called the 4004, engineers at Goodyear tire were using them to understand the dynamics of the car on ...

User-centric identity is about working relationships and services between individuals and retailers, employers, membership bodies and organizations of any kind. To learn more about user-centric identity, I stopped by the Internet Identity Workshop being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I sat town with ...

While we were at the Computer History Museum, we met Andrew Filo, the inventor of the famous robot dog, iCybie (which Hasbro marketed for several years) and had a chat about what Andrew is working on now.

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. Here’s just the highlights of our interview with Mark.

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. We interview him inside the museum and get a look at his book and some of the images he ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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Jeremy Mehrle has turned the basement of his suburban St. Louis home into one of the coolest private computer museums you will ever see. He has 74 vintage Apple Macintosh computers impeccably displayed. All of them are fully-functional so you can see what the old operating systems were like. ...

Here, my sponsor, Seagate, releases a new product, Digital Audio Video Experience (or D.A.V.E) technology, while we walk around San Jose’s famous “Tech” Museum. What is DAVE? It’s a device that fits in your hand, or your pocket. Other devices talk to it through USB, BlueTooth, or WiFi ...

While recently in Austria, Eddie Codel caught up with Mija Lorbek and Borut Kumperščak of Cyberpipe, an organization based in Slovenia whose goal is to stimulate media literacy and the development of an information society in Slovenia. Mija and Borut take us on a tour of several Cyperpipe projects including ...

On this NVIDIA podcast, we meet David McConville of Elumenati.com, a company specializing in immersive projection experiences for museums and private companies. McConville says that in large projection systems, what used to require several computers and projectors for large dome projection displays can now be done with one ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which the company established in May and pledged more than $1 billion over the next 5 years, to bring Internet coverage to various regions around the world. This week Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will promote wireless broadband PC access in Parantins, a remote Brazilian city of about 100,000 on the Amazon River. He says the company’s aim is to introduce components of a comprehensive strategy that includes hardware and wireless capability.

MashupCamp, held February 2006 at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, gave PodTech a chance to rub elbows with some young programmers who put their intriguing mashups on display. We hit almost all of them in a day full of “Speed Geeking” rounds. We had about 5 minutes with each ...

The Mashup Camp at the Computer Museum in Mountain View California is the scene for programmers seeking new ways to make the web better, i.e., Web 2.0. Bob Frankston, whose picture is on the wall at the museum [he co-invented the first spreadsheet in the late 70s] stopped by the ...

MashupCamp is a loosely joined open space event for mashing APIs and Open Source. The PodTech Podcasting team is here to cover it. Here is the first podcast.Dan Farber has a great post and pictures. David Berlind and Doug Gold have done an exceptional job ...