The definitive guide to the places and people that built the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California, evoking a sense of the Hollywood-like magic that made Silicon Valley a locale envied the world over.

OutlineIntroduction: Shockley brings silicon to Silicon ValleyChapter 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 SemiconductorChapter 2: Mountain ViewShockley Semiconductor Computer History MuseumFenwick & West quintessential SV law firmMicrosoft’s Silicon Valley Campus: SGI: Silicon GraphicsThe Stevens Creek Trail: NASA Ames: SETI Instituteetscape HQGoogle/Googleplex Chapter 3: Santa Clara and SunnyvaleIntel/Intel Museum/Intel HeadquartersLockheed Martin SunnyvaleSun Microsystems/Sun’s Headquarters AMD Advanced Micro DeviceYahoo Sunnyvale Chapter 4: San JoseWorld’s First Broadcasting Station: KQWIBM’s Almaden Research Center/Magnetic Disk Heritage CenterSan Jose City HallSantana RoweBayWinchester Mystery House/Tours. Thousands go each yearSan Jose State UniversityPulgas Water TempleLick ObservatoryCisco Systems The Tech Museum of Innovationhildren’s Discovery Museum Chapter 5: San FranciscoGreen Street LabThe ExploratoriumThe Wave OrganThe Letterman Digital Arts CenterMoscone CenterThe MetreonCraigslist.orgGolden Gate Yacht ClubSilicon Justice: San Francisco’s courthousesElectronic Frontier FoundationMicrosoft Research CenterGenetechCalifornia Academy of SciencesBay Area Laboratory Co-operativeTechnology Publishers RowAT&T ParkMonster/Candlestick Park Chapter 6: Out and About in Silicon Valley: The Surrounding SceneWindy HillOracle, Redwood ShoresHiller Aviation Museum, San CarlosJoint Genome Institute, Walnut CreekAtari, SunnyvaleElectronic Arts, Redwood CityLawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Discovery CenterSandia National Laboratories, LivermoreExcite@HomeAlviso: Home of Tivo Drawbridge (ghost town)Apple Computer, Cupertino Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it AllSuggested ReadingSurf the ValleyIndex

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 place—the 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 people—and the stories that created today’s high-tech lifestyle—with Geek Silicon Valley.