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11. How did the relationship between the army and universities change during WW2?

R+D was no longer done by the army, but done by the universities

12. What is the second story about?

The electronic shield/electronic warfare
13. What was Terman’s intention for Stanford University after WW2?

Turn it into a centre of excellence for advanced electronics

14. What did he manage to do with Stanford by 1950?

MIT of the west

15. What kind of a war was the cold war?

Quite Hot

16. When did Silicon Valley start to blossom? And how?

Cold war crisis, through government funding
17. What was the 1st engine of progress for Silicon Valley in the 50s and 60s?

Cold war crisis

18. What was William Shockley’s background? What is he famous for?

Military background, co-inventor of semiconductor

19. What is William Shockley’s legacy?

Chip industry in Silicon Valley

20. What is Silicon Valley’s 2nd engine of progress?

Rise of private capital, funding for profit
21. How did the financing of Silicon Valley change over the years?

From government to private capital

22. What does VC stand for?

Venture capital

391 San Antonio - A Semiconductor Documentary by Craig Addison

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1. What are some of the iconic brand names of Silicon Valley?

Intel, Google, Sun Microsystems, Amazon, ebay, Apple, HP
2. Which event did the New York Times call one of the top ten days that changed history?

‘Revolt of the Nerds’, eight scientists leaving their job at Shockley Labs

3. When was that?

21081

4. Why was William Shockley a giant in the electronics world?

He managed the team (Brattain/Bardeen) which discovered the transistor.

5. What was Arnold Beckman’s role in founding Shockley Labs?

He was the investor
6. Why was Shockley Labs located in 391 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto?

Near Shockley’s hometown

7. Why did these young, bright scientists move out to California?

Fame of Shockley (co-inventor of transistor)

8. What did they criticize in Shockley’s management style?

He lost his vision, he didn’t finish projects, he didn’t trust his employees, he was too impatient

9. What was the problem with Shockley’s project of building a four-layer diode?

It was impossible to build (Shockley's professional incompetence)
10. Why did Shockley hire detectives in his own company?

A small workplace incidence which Shockley thought was malicious

11. What happened at the meeting with Shockley and Beckman in 1957?

Shockley threatened to take the scientists away

12. Why did Arnold Beckman support Shockley, and not the young scientists?

Because Shockley was the boss and Nobel prize holder

13. What did the young scientists decide to do?

They quit and started their own company.

14. Who was their leader, and which company did he found later?

Robert Noyce, Intel with Gordon Moore

15. Which venture capitalist invested in Fairchild?

Sherman Fairchild

16. What helped Fairchild to successfully make and sell their semiconductors?

Sputnik and the space race: government funding for key technologies

17. What other companies can be traced back to the ‘Traitorous Eight’s?

Intel, Kleiner Perkins (start-up investment company), Amazon, Google

18. What do the scientists think about at the end?

If we hadn’t founded Fairchild, other people would have advanced the industry, but probably NOT in Silicon Valley

David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve

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1. What were the early venues of his band like?

Small rooms, quite good acoustics for words and rhythms

2. How did this influence his music?

Had to be loud and allowed for lyrics and clear rhythm

3. What happened in bigger and better venues?

The music didn’t sound as good anymore

4. What big question did he ask himself then?

Do I write music for a particular place?

5. How is African music suited to its context?

It works perfectly in its setting in the open

6. What do the examples from musical history illustrate?

The music fits the context perfectly.

7. Where was early popular music played?

Riverboats and clubs

8. How did the audiences influence it?

They asked for repetition, so the musicians started to improvise with new melodies for sections: birth of jazz

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