FUTURE PREDICTIONS CONTRIBUTE YOUR PREDICTION

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HISTORY OF THE SILICON VALLEY
and the father of the military industrial complex: Frederick Terman, who pioneered and encouraged professors and students to set up start-ups and leave the university.

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Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today

by Steve Blank
December 18, 2007

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in – Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you – even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Engineering.

William Shockley Interview, 1969

Founder of Silicon Valley

In this 1969 video, Jane Morgan interviews William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. The interview was part of a series done for the Palo Alto 75th anniversary celebrations. Thanks to the Palo Alto Historical Association.

The Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.

An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern technology’s evolution through the world’s most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.

Vivid photos capture these historically important machines including the Eniac, Crays 1 3, Apple I and II while authoritative text profiles each, telling the stories of their innovations and peculiarities. Thirty-five machines are profiled in over 100 extraordinary color photographs.

Mark Richards’s award-winning photography has been featured in numerous publications. John Alderman is the author of Sonic Boom and has written for Wired, Details, and Salon.
This event took place August 28, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA