Class 39 (11/22)
Silicon Valley
(order switched in honor of the Big Game)
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Stanford
The trials of a private institution
Terman's model
War, postwar, and consequences
Local synergies: aerospace
The semiconductor story
Solid-state technology: origins of the transistor (1947)
Moving to California
The technology and the market
The planar process
The integrated circuit (IC)
The dynamics of the Silicon Valley economy
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Moffett Field / NACA-Ames Leland Stanford Junior University Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) Frederick Terman (1900-1982) Stanford Industrial Park Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Lockheed semiconductor (e.g., silicon) Fairchild Semiconductor ultrareliability venture capital |
William Hewlett, David Packard
Varian brothers (Russell and Sigurd) klystron Bell Labs Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, William Shockley Texas Instruments (TI) Minuteman missile |
What did Weinberg mean by a "technological fix"? By "social engineering"?
What kind of world did he foresee for the future?
What historical experience was necessary to make this outcome
seem plausible to him?
Whom was he trying to persuade?
David A. Hollinger, "Science as a Weapon in Kulturkämpfe in the United States During and After World War II," in Scientific, ed. Numbers and Rosenberg, 320-334. [Originally Isis 86 (1995): 440-454.]
What does Hollinger mean by Kulturkämpfe? (Look up
Kulturkampf
in a good dictionary.)
What were the political uses of the word "scientific" in these
episodes?
How does Hollinger characterize the relation between science
and religion in mid-twentieth-century America?