HP Phenomenon

Saturday, August 30, 2025

HPE and Juniper

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 Several readers have asked: "What do you think of the HPE / Juniper merger completed last month? And yes, our nephew's wife has wo...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Another "Oldtimer" exits--Carl Cottrell

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 It is always a bit jarring--finding an old friend and colleague in the obituaries.   Carl Cottrell, a true veteran of the "old HP...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Joel Birnbaum

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 Barney Oliver, long in the tooth, was set to retire in late 1980 as HP's only CTO or VP of R&D.  While he had shepherded HP's s...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Barney Oliver

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 Odd questions sometimes arrive.   This one today was about Joel Birnbaum, viz the Computer History Museum blog post in the InnovaScapes bl...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The questions we get asked

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 I got a note from a budding documentary film maker the other day, that said: "Did you know Larry Lang at HP?" Answer: "Sure,...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Nothing lasts forever

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Our local weekly newspaper, the Yamhill County News-Register (think McMinnville, Oregon where the fabled Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes' ...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

HP Readership

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Someone asked recently, "are you still doing that old HP blog?"    They could have looked it up,, but instead they just asked.  T...
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Chuck House, shown here with son Warren, is co-author with Raymond Price, of THE HP PHENOMENON: INNOVATION and BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION (2009, Stanford University Press). He is co-founder and Managing Director of AstroVirtual Inc., and founder and Exec Director of InnovaScapes Institute. House, Chancellor Emeritus of Cogswell Polytechnical College, was also executive director of Media X, the Stanford University research program on innovation, media and technology. Previously director of Intel Corporation’s Virtual Collaboratory, EVP R/D at Dialogic, President of Spectron Microsystems, SVP at Veritas Software and Informix Software after 29 years at Hewlett-Packard in a wide variety of roles. An IEEE Fellow for Logic Analysis technology, he also was President of ACM, the world’s largest Computer Science society, and is an ACM Fellow. He holds HPs only Medal of Defiance, awarded by David Packard for extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty.. Other awards include Engineer of the Year, Smithsonian Wizard of Computing, Top 50 inventions of 20th century, CNN top 25 inventions of past 25 years, Intrapreneuring Honor Roll
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