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Technology, Entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley

The impact of technology throughout history is reviewed and analyzed for the non-technical audience. Comparisons are made between windmills, electricity, computers, steel, the printing press, and television. A brief history of technology in Silicon Valley guides the readers through the dot-com boom and bust. Quotes from Hewlett, Packard, Jobs, and others are interspersed through the colorful photographs.

Companies profiled in this book include:
NEC Electronics; Samsung Semiconductor; Mentor Graphics Corporation; Linear Technology; Cypress Semiconductor; Asyst Technologies; Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.; Infineon Technologies; Atmel Corporation; Flextronics International Ltd.; Inktomi Corporation; Hewlett-Packard Company; Avaya; Oracle Corporation; Cisco Systems; Adobe Systems; Quantum Corporation; Fujitsu Software Corporation; Adaptec, Inc.; Hitachi, Ltd.; Autodesk; Apple; Sound Advantage LLC; Trend Micro, Inc.; Network Appliance SONICblue Incorporated; Varian Medical Systems; Agilent Technologies; SRI International; Acuson Corporation; Coherent, Inc.; IBM Corporation; Intel Corporation; Siemens AG; Tyco Electronics Corporation; Therma, Inc.; Bank of America; Pacific Maintenance; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Toeniskoetter & Breeding, Inc.; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Keeble and Shuchat; Alain Pinel Realtors.

Authors: Carol Whiteley & John McLaughlin
Publication Date: 2002
Page Count: 127 pages
ISBN: 0964921715
Format: PDF/Digital