Events and Sightings

This Events & Sightings installment covers the Computer History Museum grand opening of its history of computing exhibit, "Revolution: The First 2,000 Years of Computing." Revolution covers many of the most important milestones in computing from the Antikythera Mechanism to the iPhone. The exhibit is 25,000 square feet in area and features more than 1,200 computing artifacts, 2,000 graphic and text panels, and more than 100 mini-movies. The Events & Sightings also describes the Information Processing Society of Japan\´s 50th anniversary celebration and Third Information Processing Technology Heritage Certification Ceremony as well include obituaries for Sir Maurice Wilkes and Ken Olsen.