Geek Silicon Valley The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco
by Vance, AshleeEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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Summary
Silicon Valley veterans and newbies alike will want to explore this book that delves into the rich history behind the region that birthed the world's most important industry. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance has captured almost every aspect of the area stretching between San Francisco and San Jose, California, starting with the eager radio and electronics enthusiasts of the early 1900s and ending with the computing powerhouses of today such as Google and Apple. Along the way, the book profiles the people and places that have elevated Silicon Valley to an almost mythic pedestal. This book delivers Silicon Valley, taking us from success story to failed startup and back again as we drive the roads from San Francisco to Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose. It's full of profiles of the larger-than-life characters that pioneered the processor, computer, and Internet revolutions. The book's vibrant design includes "Silicon Valley Soundbytes" packed with insider information and trivia, and "Click Here" sidebars, which suggest places to eat, drink, and shop.
Author Biography
California writer Ashlee Vance is a staffer for The Register.com, Britain’s irreverent online rag keeping tabs on the high-tech industry (with articles that are extensively picked up by news aggregators), covering Silicon Valley corporations. He freelances for other news sources including the New York Times. The Register.com (“biting the hand that feeds IT”) has 4 million subscribers.
Table of Contents
| Outline Introduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon Valley | |
| Palo Alto and Menlo Park ·Federal Telegraph Company ·Stanford University/Stanford Research Park | |
| The Stanford Dish/Silicon Valley Archives ·University Avenue and Stanford Shopping | |
| Center: collegiate eateries contrast with high-end mall ·Hewlett-Packard: | |
| HP history and background with headquarters address ·HP Garage: | |
| Thousands of people a year come by the house to try to see the garage, which a historic market designates as “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” ·StanfordLinear | |
| Accelerator Center (SLAC) – Menlo Park: | |
| Fun with high-energy physics | |
| Provides tours daily and hosts thousands of visitors each year ·Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) | |
| Campus located on beautiful, hilly bit of land in Palo Alto | |
| No tours, but it offers talks open to the public every Thursday | |
| ·Sand Hill Road/3000 Sand Hill Road | |
| Where everyone goes to get venture capitol ·SRI International, Menlo Park ·Fairchild Semiconductor | |
| Mountain View Shockley Semiconductor Computer | |
| History Museum Fenwick & West quintessential SV law firm Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus | |
| SGI | |
| Silicon GraphicsThe Stevens Creek Trail | |
| NASA Ames:S ETI Institute etscape HQ Google/Googleplex | |
| Santa Clara and Sunnyvale Intel/Intel Museum/Intel Headquarters | |
| Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale Sun Microsystems/Sun’s | |
| Headquarters AMD Advanced Micro Device Yahoo Sunnyvale | |
| San Jose World’s First Broadcasting Station | |
| KQW IBM’s Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage | |
| Center San JoseCity Hall Santana RoweBay WinchesterMystery House/Tours | |
| Thousands go each yearSan JoseState University Pulgas | |
| Water Temple Lick Observatory Cisco Systems The Tech Museum of Innovation hildren’s Discovery Museum | |
| San Francisco Green Street | |
| Lab The Exploratorium The Wave Organ The Letterman Digital Arts Center Moscone | |
| Center The MetreonC raigslist.org Golden GateYacht ClubS ilicon Justice | |
| San Francisco’s courthouses Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft Research Center Genetech California | |
| Academy of Sciences Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative Technology Publishers RowA T&TPark Monster/Candlestick Park | |
| Out and About in Silicon Valley | |
| The Surrounding Scene Windy Hill Oracle, Redwood Shores Hiller | |
| Aviation Museum,San Carlos Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek Atari, Sunnyvale Electronic Arts, Redwood City Lawrence | |
| Livermore National Laboratory/Discovery Center Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore | |
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