Philosophy
Leslie Berlin's book is a good supplement to the PBS documentary of the rise of "Silicon Valley" and its players.
Overview...
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and culture that defines Silicon Valley.
Here is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel who co-invented the integrated circuit, the electronic heart of every modern computer, automobile, cellular telephone, advanced weapon, and video game. With access to never-before-seen documents, Berlin paints a fascinating portrait of Noyce: he was an ambitious and intensely competitive multimillionaire who exuded a “just folks” sort of charm, a Midwestern preacher’s son who rejected organized religion but would counsel his employees to “go off and do something wonderful,” a man who never looked back and sometimes paid a price for it. In addition, this vivid narrative sheds light on Noyce’s friends and associates, including some of the best-known managers, venture capitalists, and creative minds in Silicon Valley. Berlin draws upon interviews with dozens of key players in modern American business–including Andy Grove, Steve Jobs, Gordon Moore, and Warren Buffett; their recollections of Noyce give readers a privileged, first-hand look inside the dynamic world of high-tech entrepreneurship.
Leslie Berlin's website
by
Leslie Berlin
ISBN-10: 0195163435
ISBN-13: 978-0195163438
The nerd and entrepreneur
Italian semiconductor physics from 1945 to 1965
Google Doodle for Robert Noyce
Deceased--Norman Krim
Deceased--Morgan Sparks
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- Deceased--bob Pease
Bob Pease August 22nd, 1940 to June 18th, 2011 "PASSINGS: Bob Pease" Bob Pease, a Silicon Valley engineer and author on analog chip design, dies at 70 June 23rd, 2011 Los Angeles Times Bob Pease, 70, a prominent Silicon Valley engineer and author of...
- Moore’s Law Doomed?
Gordon Moore Prognosticators are a dime a dozen...Michio Kaku According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years. As a result the scale gets smaller and smaller. "Death of Moore's Law Will Cause Economic...
- Deceased--c. Lester Hogan
C. Lester Hogan February 8th, 1920 to August 12th, 2008 He fought the corporation...and won. "C. Lester Hogan, Physicist Who Fought Motorola, Dies at 88" by Douglas Martin August 16th, 2008 The New York Times C. Lester Hogan, a pioneer in the electronics...
- The Nerd And Entrepreneur
Jack Kilby 1923 to 2005 Robert Noyce Jack Kilby's First Integrated Circuit ca. 1958 I suppose the achievements of Jack Kilby [and Robert Noyce] influenced the world much as the Voyage of Columbus. I suppose one could call this the saga of the nerd...
Philosophy
Leslie Berlin's "The Man Behind the Microchip"
Leslie Berlin's book is a good supplement to the PBS documentary of the rise of "Silicon Valley" and its players.
Overview...
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and culture that defines Silicon Valley.
Here is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel who co-invented the integrated circuit, the electronic heart of every modern computer, automobile, cellular telephone, advanced weapon, and video game. With access to never-before-seen documents, Berlin paints a fascinating portrait of Noyce: he was an ambitious and intensely competitive multimillionaire who exuded a “just folks” sort of charm, a Midwestern preacher’s son who rejected organized religion but would counsel his employees to “go off and do something wonderful,” a man who never looked back and sometimes paid a price for it. In addition, this vivid narrative sheds light on Noyce’s friends and associates, including some of the best-known managers, venture capitalists, and creative minds in Silicon Valley. Berlin draws upon interviews with dozens of key players in modern American business–including Andy Grove, Steve Jobs, Gordon Moore, and Warren Buffett; their recollections of Noyce give readers a privileged, first-hand look inside the dynamic world of high-tech entrepreneurship.
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by
Leslie Berlin
ISBN-10: 0195163435
ISBN-13: 978-0195163438
The nerd and entrepreneur
Italian semiconductor physics from 1945 to 1965
Google Doodle for Robert Noyce
Deceased--Norman Krim
Deceased--Morgan Sparks
- Volume #13 Of 30...huge Project On Albert Einstein
"Caltech and Princeton University Press Release Thirteenth Volume of Einstein Papers" September 26th, 2012 by Kimm Fesenmaier In the fall of 1922, when Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, the already-famous physicist was on a...
- Deceased--bob Pease
Bob Pease August 22nd, 1940 to June 18th, 2011 "PASSINGS: Bob Pease" Bob Pease, a Silicon Valley engineer and author on analog chip design, dies at 70 June 23rd, 2011 Los Angeles Times Bob Pease, 70, a prominent Silicon Valley engineer and author of...
- Moore’s Law Doomed?
Gordon Moore Prognosticators are a dime a dozen...Michio Kaku According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years. As a result the scale gets smaller and smaller. "Death of Moore's Law Will Cause Economic...
- Deceased--c. Lester Hogan
C. Lester Hogan February 8th, 1920 to August 12th, 2008 He fought the corporation...and won. "C. Lester Hogan, Physicist Who Fought Motorola, Dies at 88" by Douglas Martin August 16th, 2008 The New York Times C. Lester Hogan, a pioneer in the electronics...
- The Nerd And Entrepreneur
Jack Kilby 1923 to 2005 Robert Noyce Jack Kilby's First Integrated Circuit ca. 1958 I suppose the achievements of Jack Kilby [and Robert Noyce] influenced the world much as the Voyage of Columbus. I suppose one could call this the saga of the nerd...