Ashlee Vance
Geek Silicon Valley
The Inside Guide To Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco
Ashlee Vance
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The Inside Guide To Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco
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The definitive guide to the places and people that built the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California, evoking a sense of the Hollywood-like magic that made Silicon Valley a locale envied the world over.
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The definitive guide to the places and people that built the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California, evoking a sense of the Hollywood-like magic that made Silicon Valley a locale envied the world over.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
- Seitenzahl: 266
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 416g
- ISBN-13: 9780762742394
- ISBN-10: 0762742399
- Artikelnr.: 22455982
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
- Seitenzahl: 266
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 416g
- ISBN-13: 9780762742394
- ISBN-10: 0762742399
- Artikelnr.: 22455982
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
By Ashlee Vance
Outline
Introduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon Valley
Chapter 1: 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”
· Stanford Linear 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Santa Clara and Sunnyvale
Intel/Intel Museum/Intel Headquarters
Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale
Sun Microsystems/Sun's Headquarters
AMD Advanced Micro Device
Yahoo Sunnyvale
Chapter 4: San Jose
World's First Broadcasting Station: KQW
IBM's Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage Center
San Jose City Hall
Santana RoweBay
Winchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each yearSan Jose State
University
Pulgas Water Temple
Lick Observatory
Cisco Systems
The Tech Museum of Innovation
hildren's Discovery Museum
Chapter 5: San Francisco
Green Street Lab
The Exploratorium
The Wave Organ
The Letterman Digital Arts Center
Moscone Center
The MetreonC
raigslist.org
Golden Gate Yacht 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&T Park
Monster/Candlestick Park
Chapter 6: 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
Excite@Home
Alviso: Home of Tivo
Drawbridge (ghost town)Apple Computer, Cupertino
Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it All
Suggested Reading
Surf the Valley
Index
Introduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon Valley
Chapter 1: 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”
· Stanford Linear 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Santa Clara and Sunnyvale
Intel/Intel Museum/Intel Headquarters
Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale
Sun Microsystems/Sun's Headquarters
AMD Advanced Micro Device
Yahoo Sunnyvale
Chapter 4: San Jose
World's First Broadcasting Station: KQW
IBM's Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage Center
San Jose City Hall
Santana RoweBay
Winchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each yearSan Jose State
University
Pulgas Water Temple
Lick Observatory
Cisco Systems
The Tech Museum of Innovation
hildren's Discovery Museum
Chapter 5: San Francisco
Green Street Lab
The Exploratorium
The Wave Organ
The Letterman Digital Arts Center
Moscone Center
The MetreonC
raigslist.org
Golden Gate Yacht 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&T Park
Monster/Candlestick Park
Chapter 6: 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
Excite@Home
Alviso: Home of Tivo
Drawbridge (ghost town)Apple Computer, Cupertino
Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it All
Suggested Reading
Surf the Valley
Index
Outline
Introduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon Valley
Chapter 1: 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”
· Stanford Linear 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Santa Clara and Sunnyvale
Intel/Intel Museum/Intel Headquarters
Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale
Sun Microsystems/Sun's Headquarters
AMD Advanced Micro Device
Yahoo Sunnyvale
Chapter 4: San Jose
World's First Broadcasting Station: KQW
IBM's Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage Center
San Jose City Hall
Santana RoweBay
Winchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each yearSan Jose State
University
Pulgas Water Temple
Lick Observatory
Cisco Systems
The Tech Museum of Innovation
hildren's Discovery Museum
Chapter 5: San Francisco
Green Street Lab
The Exploratorium
The Wave Organ
The Letterman Digital Arts Center
Moscone Center
The MetreonC
raigslist.org
Golden Gate Yacht 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&T Park
Monster/Candlestick Park
Chapter 6: 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
Excite@Home
Alviso: Home of Tivo
Drawbridge (ghost town)Apple Computer, Cupertino
Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it All
Suggested Reading
Surf the Valley
Index
Introduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon Valley
Chapter 1: 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”
· Stanford Linear 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Santa Clara and Sunnyvale
Intel/Intel Museum/Intel Headquarters
Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale
Sun Microsystems/Sun's Headquarters
AMD Advanced Micro Device
Yahoo Sunnyvale
Chapter 4: San Jose
World's First Broadcasting Station: KQW
IBM's Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage Center
San Jose City Hall
Santana RoweBay
Winchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each yearSan Jose State
University
Pulgas Water Temple
Lick Observatory
Cisco Systems
The Tech Museum of Innovation
hildren's Discovery Museum
Chapter 5: San Francisco
Green Street Lab
The Exploratorium
The Wave Organ
The Letterman Digital Arts Center
Moscone Center
The MetreonC
raigslist.org
Golden Gate Yacht 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&T Park
Monster/Candlestick Park
Chapter 6: 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
Excite@Home
Alviso: Home of Tivo
Drawbridge (ghost town)Apple Computer, Cupertino
Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it All
Suggested Reading
Surf the Valley
Index







