The American Computer Museum is changing the

name for its display areas to the Museum of Modern 

Human Progress to better reflect its vast collections

and displays covering the 30,000 year history of

modern humanity. Encompassing much, much more

than just the history of computers, the mission and

purpose for the museum nevertheless remains the

same: "To collect, preserve, interpret, and display 

the artifacts and history of the information age."

Welcome to the American Computer MuseumEarly Cro-Magnon Art depictions, Original Sumerian/Babylonian Clay Tablets (4,500+ years old), The Antikythera Mechanism: the First Computer (80 B.C.E.) - only reconstruction of its type on public display in the Western HemisphereA Scriptorium with Original 13th Century Manuscripts, A Reconstruction of the Gutenberg Press & 500+ Year Old Original Gutenberg Press Printed DocumentsShakespeare's Macbeth: Original First Printing from the First Folio (1623)The First Internet: The Telegraph - Original 1770s Benjamin Franklin commissioned Static Electricity Machine, the First Battery: A Volta Pile, Original handwritten documents by Samuel Morse regarding the 1st Telegraph line, Pony Express items including a Mail Pouch and Civil War Telegrams to/from the White HouseThomas Edison: The Light Bulb & The Phonograph - Experience the Inventiveness & Innovation of Edison's mind.Exact Reconstruction from Bell Laboratories of Alexander Graham Bell's First Telephone & Several Antique/Rare Early Telephones and Switchboards.Wireless: The Handie-Talkie from WWII, the History of Radios, Televisions including Philo Farnswoth, the 1st TV Remote (1956), 1st Editions of Works by Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell and Marconi.The First Cell & Smart Phones: Inspired in Part by Star Trek - Brick-Sized & Flip Style Devices by Motorola, Radio Shack, IBM "Simon", Nokia, Apple "Newton", etc...Numbering Systems: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Hindu-Arabic & Binary: The Bits & Bytes based system used for Text, Image & Music Recording are explainedWeaving Looms to Software: The Evolution of the Jacquard Loom Methods to the Work of Babbage and Ada and on into the Punched Card Systems of IBM.4 Pillars of 20th Century Computer Science: Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon & Grace Hopper: Original Publications & PapersThe Norden Bombsight (WWII), the ABC Computer (Atanasoff/Berry) & the ENIACFirst Commercial Computer (1949), the Minuteman 1 Missile Computer (1962), the PDP-8 (first desktop computer, 1965), the Apollo Moon Mission Navigation Computer (1967), the Watch worn on the Moon by Commander Scott of Apollo 15 & the History of Personal Computers & Video Games.The Microprocessor Invention: 1971Apple 1 Computer (1976) - Donated by its Inventor, Steve Wozniak - the Co-Founder along with Steve Jobs of the Apple Computer CompanySteve & Steve: An Exhibit of the History of the Apple Computer Company with Images & Artifacts provided in part by Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of the Apple Computer Company.Women in Science & Technology (Partial Exhibit View 1)Women in Science & Technology (Partial Exhibit View 2)Human Brains & Computers


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The 2012 STIBITZ & WILSON AWARDS

         When: Thursday, October 4, 2012 @ 7 PM


Lecture & Book Signing by Dr. Edward O. Wilson, 

Professor Emeritus, Harvard University


Where: Strand Union Building, Montana State University,

Bozeman, MT


                 FREE and Open to the Public!


Receiving the 2012 George R. Stibitz Computer

and Communications Pioneer Award:


Bob Metcalfe

For Seminal Contributions to the Development of Ethernet


Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Fellow of

the Clint W. Murchison Sr. Chair of Free Enterprise

University of Texas, Austin, TX


Vic Hayes

For Seminal Contributions to the Development of WiFi


The "Father of Wi-Fi" - Senior Research Fellow,

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Economics 

of Infrastructures Delft University of Technology, 

the Netherlands


For the first time these two seminal contributors to these

incalculable communications revolutions will be together 

on one stage.


Receiving the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity 

Technology Pioneer Award:


Paul Anastas

For Seminal Contributions to the Foundations 

of Green Chemistry


The “Father of Green Chemistry” - Director, 

Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering 

Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of 

Chemistry for the Environment, 

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut


May Berenbaum

For Seminal Contributions to the Understanding 

of Insect Chemical Ecology and the Public Understanding

of Biodiversity


Renowned as the world's leading expert on bees and one 

of the most famous women scientists in the world.

Professor and Department Head, 

Department of Entomology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL


Gary Strobel

For Seminal Contributions to the Understanding 

of Antibacterial, Antifungal and Other Bioactive 

Plant Compounds


One of the world's leading microbiologists and  fungi 

experts, Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences

and Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, 

Montana State University, 

Bozeman, MT


The Awards Ceremonies are sponsored in part by 

Montana State University's College of Engineering 

and the College of Letters & Science.


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