Silicon Valley: 110 Year Renaissance

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 196 pages
• Published by: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association
• Edition: 2nd Edition January 1, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 096492174X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0964921740
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Description
The constellation known today as Silicon Valley represents the choicest achievements of America s high technology through the 20th Century and now into the 21st, a period during which the United States surged to world technological leadership and poured out inventions, innovations, and developments in a volume unprecedented in history, either in quality or quantity. The purpose of this book is to collect and pass on to the future generations an understanding of how this phenomenon came to be. Silicon Valley is unique in many ways, but its character found roots more than a hundred and ten years ago. Dozens of high technology founders and inventors provide personal perspective thoughout the pages. Fifty of Silicon Valley's most important high technology companies are profiled.

About The Author
John McLaughlin, co-author of The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance and the author of the science fiction novel G.R.A.I.L. Producer/director of the PBS documentary, Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance, narrated by Walter Cronkite. A historian, entrepreneur and former magazine publisher, he makes Palo Alto his operating base. He attended the University of Oregon and took an MBA degree at the San Diego-based United States International University. Leigh Weimers retired in 2005 as dean of Bay Area newspaper columnists, concluding a 47 year career with the San Jose Mercury News. Author of Leigh Weimers' Guide to Silicon Valley, he has served as founding chairman of the San Jose Police Foundation and is the recipient of numerous awards for journalism and civic involvement. A resident of Redwood Estates, he is a graduate of San Jose State University and has been awarded the university's highest service award. Ward Winslow, co-author of The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance, is also the author of Palo Alto: A Centennial History and another book recapping his 34 years of reporting and editing for Palo Alto's daily newspapers. He attended the University of Colorado (Boulder) and did his graduate study at Stanford University.

Reader Reviews
"Silicon Valley: 110 Year Renaissance" is the collaborative work of John McLaughlin, Leigh Weimers, Ward Winslow and a superbly presented, profusely illustrated celebration of the history of the California community that became in icon of the computer age. From Leland Stanford founding a university, to the rise of radio and the federal telegraph, through the years of the Great Depression and World War II, do the electronics industry's post-war beginnings and the emergency of the microcomputer, the internet, the explosive growth of a new 20th century industry, to the bursting of the Computer Industry bubble, "Silicon Valley: 110 Year Renaissance" is a superbly written regional history that draws upon more than a hundred interviews with the scientists and entrepreneurs associated with the Silicon Valley computer industry. A very highly recommended title for people in the industry as well as non-specialist general readers with an interest in the Silicon Valley phenomena, "Silicon Valley: 110 Year Renaissance" is as entertaining and engaging as it is informed and informative. It should also be noted that a PBS documentary of the same name and narrated by Leonard Nimoy will be broadcast and released on DVD sometime in the mid-2008.