Geek Silicon Valley A Circuitry of Places and People -- and the Stories That Created Today's High-tech Lifestyle

The Real Silicon Valley Some people say that Silicon Valley is a state of mind, but the cultural trends that drive us today were actually born in a very real placethe garages and back rooms of the cities between San Francisco and San Jose, California. Geek Silicon Valley delivers Silicon Valley history, taking us from success story to failed start-up and back again as we drive the roads from Menlo Park to Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. Place by place, readers get the background info on all the addresses that count: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Stanford University, NASA Ames, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Santana Row, Genentech, and many more. Journey through a circuitry of places and peopleand the stories that created today's high-tech lifestylewith Geek Silicon Valley.Vance, Ashlee is the author of 'Geek Silicon Valley A Circuitry of Places and People -- and the Stories That Created Today's High-tech Lifestyle', published 2007 under ISBN 9780762742394 and ISBN 0762742399.