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 Graphics The 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 S an Jose City Hall Santana Row eBay Winchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each year San 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 Metreon C raigslist.org Golden Gate Yacht Club S ilicon Justice: San Francisco''s courthouses Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft Research Center Genetech California Academy of Sciences Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative Technology Publishers Row A 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.
Geek Silicon Valley : The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco