Seating is limited. Registration is recommended. Walk-ins are also welcome.

For the first 25 years since its invention in the late 1940s, the electronic computer was only available to big companies and institutions. A revolution began in the 1970s, fueled by the invention of the microprocessor, that brought computing power to ordinary individuals. The democratization continued with the development of the internet and the web, which gave computer users access to each other and all the world's information. This is the history of that evolution. Presented by Computer History Museum co-founder Len Shustek. 

Len Shustek is a high tech entrepreneur who co-founded the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and was its Chairman for 25 years. His educational background is in Computer Science (MS and PhD from Stanford University) by way of Physics (BS and MS from Polytechnic Institute of New York University). He was a Research Associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, then an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1979, he co-founded Nestar Systems, an early manufacturer of networked computer systems for personal computers. In 1986, he co-founded Network General, a manufacturer of computer network analysis tools, notably "The Sniffer". He then co-founded the seed-round venture capital firm VenCraft. In semi-retirement, Len has taught computer architecture and computer history as a Consulting Professor at Stanford, and has served on the boards of several high-tech startups and non-profit organizations.

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