Check out the New Media Museum’s latest creation — it helps students (and computer history buffs) learn about the history of computing and take field trips to the best (virtual) computer museums in the world! Click the image to find…
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Fun & Games + VR, Oh My!
Hi All! It’s a Friday, before a holiday week! What better time to provide a new, fun distraction, right? It’s no secret that, while I love all of the New Media Museum’s Exhibits, Projects and Collections, I’m highly partial to…
Computing Field Trips@Boston
I recently got into a coversation with a colleague about computing related fieldtrips for high school and college students in the Boston area. We agreed that there is plenty to see if you know where to look. It struck me…
CMoA Preview
I have just came back from seeing a preview of the Computer Museum of America (CMoA) that is slated to open in Roswell, GA north of Atlanta later this year. WOW, it’s going to be huge! Most of us that…
Field trip!
It had to happen sooner or later. It was inevitable, and so a trip to Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo for Digital-Den provided the perfect opportunity, Yes, that long-overdue visit to the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View, CA finally…
Seymour
Seymour Papert passed away in July of last year, and this week I had the privilege of attending the memorial event in his honor held at the MIT Media Lab entitled Thinking about Thinking about Seymour. Here are two videos…
Fall fun!
Fall is here already, and that means the last Flea@MIT is approaching. Join us on Sunday, October 16th for two back-to-back events. First, the New Computer Museum will have a table at the Flea from 9 a.m. to noon. Second,…
Marvin
Marvin Minsky died last Sunday (Jan. 24), of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 88. This is an incredibly sad loss to many of us, both near and far — it feels as if a hole has been torn…
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Updates!
New Computer Museum Updates! Here are a few quick updates to ring in the New Year! First, there is a new version of the New Computer Museum application available to download (updated 12/21/15). The application runs on Windows 7/8, and…
Posted in Release
Fond farewell
I had a major dilemma back in the winter of 2012/2013 when I started to think about making my computer hardware and software collection publicly accessible — where to do it? I definitely didn’t want to invite the general public…
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New Computer Museum 