Dan’l Lewin named president of the Computer History Museum

Longtime Silicon Valley leader Dan’l Lewin was named president and CEO of The Computer History Museum. In this capacity, he will help develop a new strategy for the museum, which chronicles the decades of achievements of Silicon Valley’s leaders.

The Mountain View, California museum has exhibits that chronicle computing history, and it is also a gathering place for events involving the region’s tech leaders. I’ve been to it many times — for stories that took me into the old stacks of documents, as well as to exhibits that showed off everything from the physics of car crashes to the history of games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.