MC2 Post 1130 Thanks To Google Home Page --And PBS The Robert Noyce Story

Bob Noyce's nickname was the "Mayor of Silicon Valley."   He was one of the very first scientists to work in the area -- long before the stretch of California had earned the Silicon name -- and he ran two of the companies that had the greatest impact on the silicon industry: Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.  He also invented the integrated chip, one of the stepping stones along the way to the microprocessors in today's computers.

Link:  http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/noyce.html

 
TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2dqgtm

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Robert Noyce Google Doodle

Wikipedia:  Robert Noyce

Link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce

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Crystal Fire 

by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson

 W. W. Norton & Company, Sep 23, 1997 - 
Technology & Engineering -

352 pages

It is hard to imagine any device more crucial to modern life than the microchip and the transistor from which it sprang. Every waking hour people of the world take their vast benefits for granted - in cellular phones, ATMs, wrist watches, calculators, computers, automobiles, radios, televisions, fax machines, copiers, stoplights, and thousands of other electronic devices. Without a doubt, the transistor is the most important artifact of the twentieth century and the "nerve cell" of our electronic age. Crystal Fire recounts the story of the transistor team at Bell Labs headed up by William Shockley who shared the Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. While his colleagues went on to other research, Shockley grew increasingly obsessed with the new gadget. Eventually he formed his own firm - the first semiconductor company in what would become Silicon Valley, spawning hundreds of other businesses and a multi-billion-dollar industry. Above all, Crystal Fire is a tale of the human factors in technology - the pride and jealousies coupled with scientific and economic aspiration that led to the creation of modern microelectronics and ignited the greatest technological explosion in history.

Link:  http://books.google.com/books/about/Crystal_fire.html?id=0bTpcTLCu6MC
  
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Available on Audible and Amazon.
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