The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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- Google Tech Talks
December 18, 2007
How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today, presented by Steve Blank.
How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in - Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.
This talk was hosted by Boris Debic - Наука та технологія
An interesting summary of the relationship between the U.S. intelligence community and the early founders of Silicon Valley. This information is only now being declassified. One would assume that many of these relationships continue even today, but with completely different technologies, of course.
Ever wondered why the A-12/SR-71 has such a long section between the cockpit and the wings?
this is just about the BEST thing I've ever seen on youtube - though i saw the computer museum's post of it. thanks a ton to the author ... so great
Those radars were purely analog, no computers involved. And all RF stuff works quite good with tubes. Actually most critical radar circuits (both receivers and high power output ones) are build with tubes even these days.
BEST TALK AND DOCUMENTARY EVER... seriously - just sit down and LISTEN
My dad worked at RRL--he was an EE/PhD from Stanford
50:00 The Germans did try to bomb the UK radars. There simply was not enough surface to the towers to blast them.
good information on the formative part of silicon valley...and all of the electronics industry
Slides for this presentation are available for download or viewing on Slideshare
Search for "Secret History of Silicon Valley."
An updated version of this talk with a discussion of the rise of Venture Capital is on the Computer History Museum web site.
Excellent overview! I had the same question as the guy that asked about "spoofing." I guess that one will require a little digging for an answer.
Very interesting. I learned lots of new information about WWII radar. Randy
excellent lecture. very informative endl;
Fascinating.
Hello Dan
I agree with that although Jones' book does itemise the pre-war development of radar.
We gave radar and codebreaking technology to America when they were forced to join in WW2 18months after it started.Cheers Paul
He's right! I've never seen any of this in any movie or documentary!
Perhaps that's why they called it 'Secret'...
eh.
can you offer this is a downloadable version, so I can watch it offline?
he forgot to add; the numbers of women in Britain, and later the USA who assembled the planes - factories full of women, in Britain. All available British men of call up age were in the armed forces, the only people left to make planes were women. Without them...no planes. An item often overlooked in these historical recaps.
...mostly young women who could bear with very long and hard working days! with not much time off
35:05 the original start up pre requisites
Wow, if you depend on the popular press you'd never know any of this! Required viewing for anyone interested in Silicon Valley. This should be a book or movie about Terman. Thanks Google for making us smarter.
Hard to argue with that logic!
Finally somebody talking in public about CIA and NSA involvement in all the software we use today.
??? what does that have to do with radar???? have you actually LISTENED?
No, the Manchester was twin engine, the Lancaster was 4 engine. The Limcoln was the Lancaster in RAF use after the war. The Lanchester was the civilian Lancaster used after the war.
@itsadeadmansparty They relied on "rectifier", a semiconductor crystal.
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Thats crazy I just realized even Bangalore was a hub for similar activity , where all the research happened and now where Indian Startups thrive.
what about German electronic counter warfare measures,....particularly the jamming of portable allied nav aids?
Very interesting. You would have thought though he could have got his facts re RAF bombers right. The LANCASTER was the RAF bomber, the LANCHESTER was the Lanc's used as civilian airliners after the war.
I plan on resisting government indefinitely. Government doesnt give you anything it didnt first take away.
Now, go a head and front.
I had no idea that "real footage from World War II" starred Gregory Peck!
The movie is "12 O'Clock High", which did use gun camera footage (some of it from the Luftwaffe!) along with the studio footage.
In 1956 my mother worked at the Stanford engineering dept, workied for 3 scientists. Dr. Villard, Dr. Eshilman and one other. Villard was head of the dept. I'm wondering now if this was all part of the Terman group. I being down from Alaska, my mother was able to get me a summer job within her department. I use to deliver parts to these various radar dish sites around the Stanford campus. 17 so of course I knew nothing. But looking back now I'm sure this was all"spook"work.
Four years ago I definitely had no idea of #InnoBay
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Google it, as a start.
'Lanchester' bombers, 'what was then called Cape Canaveral', typos. Perhaps just sloppiness, but it does call into question what is a great topic.
How can Google upload video that long?
@norcalmikey99 Spot on sir..
Think Steve means Lancaster bombers not Lanchester at 5 minutes in
thanks, i thought Lanchester sounded wrong (i know its eight years late, but hey...)
I wanna post hour long vids also on you tube!! gutdamnit!
oh men, the Germans (im one) we were damn scarry at that time. Good that u took us down. Imagine Germany had 10-20 more years of tech-development ...
I think you mean the Commonwealth.
Sorry, I lost it at "Lanchester"... *Shakes head*
yeah Buddy, learn real names or Elsa!
We are all entitled to our opinions. It's just some can be reasonably defended or explained logically and others cannot. Care to share the info that make your opinions so "well-informed?"
Subtitle or caption please?
There are some people here who seem to come back daily to thumb down completely valid comments.... pathetic, and, surely, typical....
Could this spoofing tech have been the source of radar sightings of UFOs at the time?
Same-to-same re: Bangalore ... WW II and all that ... chck it!
I would like to know what a Lanchester is....maybe a Lancaster in disguise??
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What I plan to do about it is unimportant. I just live as I want to. Say what I want to. With in my mind only the sense of equality that I believe humans should explore.
I just happen to believe that our modern society is a failure. That our use of technology is infantile and vindictive. That nobody in the world has the right to determine what I think or do...especially government.
thanks shockley, you helped to turn us all slaves to the military industrial complex!
Well he supposedly *was* a Nazi, after all... :-/
wow what did I say wrong ? why did everyone gave my text a "thumb down" ? All I said was, "be optimistic and thankful for what we have" the world is what it is, the living standards has increased, not for all, but for most. Its not perfect, but its getting better. The next 3 years will be tough for us working class
Canada was also there, just sayin..
life hasn't been that cruel to us. atleast we are not dead. Enjoy what you have while you are here. Leave survival of the fittest to the animal world. Space travel, automation of mundane jobs, removal of the current monetary system of debt, better health care, google governance, there are plenty to look forward to, for those who can cope with the next 3 years. I don't believe carnegie institude was involved in eugenics, they gave my mother chinese translations of Dale's 2 best books for free.
omg, how ignorant am I?
i thought it was the game!!
should be called the secret 'technical' 'early' history of silicon valley
I googled it, no names came up. just a bunch of companies. How about you google it and see for yourself. or you can just give me some names.
My opinions are totally independant of peer-review. I dont need to prove things that can be seen all around us. Life is not a play of words, not a battle of polemic and trying to prove the obvious to hard-heads.
t the rate we are destroying our environment I'd say it is pretty obvious that we are missing some very important points. Hard to deny that one. No need to prove it, either. I guess a lot of humans enjoy living in their own filth and exhaust.
I am afraid you are in error. Re-check your assumptions before disregarding my comments. Churchill was in fact the leader of UK - the royal family have been figure heads since 18th century when parliament became sovereign in england. In NZ parliament can make any law, basically do anything - it is called a parliament democracy. same for all members of commonwealth. So my comment saying it was not just UK and USA in WW2 is right - many countries helped fight nazis before USA officially entered.
An interesting video. Unfortunately watching this one has the perception that the electronic developments in WW2 all came from the US.I don't suppose American libraries keep 'The Secret War' by RV Jones but if they do - give it a read and you'll see where a lot of the actual developements and ideas came from.
about time some truth came from these sods shame its too late.
Lanchester Bomber?
Get it right, WTF?
Russia's contribution undervalued as usual...
no whats that?
And ALL the gals who worked the factories to make the bombers! (since the British men of call up age were all in the armed forces, they only had women left to do this exacting work). Something that is always glossed over... skipped and forgotten about.
examples? That's nitpicking; it is quite obvious from your comments that you have your own interpretation of other people's opinions...
About the "evil force" comment: Would you honestly be complaining about a benevolent power? You must feel that whatever power you are not happy with has no benefit to you. I really am interested in hearing your explanation for your views. If the sheepishness and greed of the common human is really your issue, what do you plan to do about it--be angry for the rest of your life or destroy all humans? Resist the government indefinitely?
hmm, seems like someone has a one-sided view of the world...and a limited understanding
wind, yes...mighty...? I guess not.
ahh, the intertwinement of government and industry, or, fascism.
hooray.
????
USSR. MAO'S CHINA, CURRENT CHINA....COMMUNISM...
weird.
LANCASTER bomber not LANCHESTER!!!!!
WOW
Names? Just google "american elite", and oodles of names will pop up...
He's an American lol
Excellent video, but someone needs to proof read this guy's power point slides. For someone discussing such high tech topics in an educational environment, it's almost comical when their slides show 2nd grade gramatical errors of not understanding the difference between plural and posessive cases!
Care to cite specific examples of my one-sided view? Little broad in your argument.
All those countries you just listed are in the UK you crazy. India was until 1947.
So of course they declared war.
I think you mean, countries which were part of the former British Commonwealth ie Canada, Australia etc. Not the UK! Lol
4:47 - BRITISH did not stand alone - this guy is obviously not a professional historian. Within a few days of Britain declaring war New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India and the rest of the free world - not including USA declared war on Nazi Germany. I am not a professional historian either but come on!
@uncookedrecords i took that to mean: Britain stood alone In Europe, as the only European country not invaded by the Germans. Yes, all the commonwealth countries piled in to help later on, but we weren't within cooee of Geman defences! Our war defending Australia centred on Singapore, Burma and the Pacific, as most people know.
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That's a lie.
"american elite" If I hear that term again I am going to explode. How about somebody uses actually uses names. I used to laugh at you elitist, now it's just getting annoying.
Fascinating.