Revolutionaries, the speaker series of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature three of the most prominent science writers on modern computer history at 20 p.m. on 15 May. David Kirkpatrick, Steven Levy and John Markoff will discuss the development, major events and trends in information technology witnessed in the past thirty years.

All three of them have been technology journalists for roughly thirty years now, reporting on crucial issues and changes. This time they will tell their own ICT history and share their personal experience form the PC revolution to our days.

Steven Levy (http://www.stevenlevy.com/) worked for years as a writer for Wired Magazine, the number one platform of the ICT revolution in the second half of the 1990s. He is the author of seven books, many of them bestsellers, on subjects from cryptography, artificial life and computer hackers to the inside stories of the iPod's invention and Google's birth.

David Kirkpatrick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kirkpatrick_(author)) was for many years a writer for Fortune Magazine and is now the main organiser of Techonomy conferences. He is the author of The Facebook Effect, published in 2010, which tells the story of the number one social networking service, and shares first-hand information that has never been published elsewhere.

John Markoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Markoff) began writing about technology in 1976. Initially he worked for the Times, then joined The New York Times in 1988, and also contributed as a writer to Edge and various blogs. His series of articles about the pursuit and capture of the legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick brought him world fame.