Geek Silicon Valley

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.

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

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