American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2009: Pittsburgh, Pa)
Origins of Silicon Valley [audiorecording], 2009 March 16.
Audio recording of session D5 of March 2009 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Pittsburgh, PA. This session was sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics, chaired by Gloria B. Lubkin of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Talks (and speakers) include: "Prehistory of Silicon Valley, from 1910 to 1965" (Stewart Gillmor); "W. W. Hansen, Microwave Physics, and Silicon Valley" (David Leeson); "From Bell Labs to Silicon Valley: A Saga of Technology Transfer, 1954-1961" (Michael Riordan); "The Origins and Development of the Silicon Valley Startup Model" (James Gibbons).
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Microwaves.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- History -- Congresses.
Sound recordings lcgft
Silicon Valley.
Gibbons, James F.
Gillmor, C. Stewart, 1938-
Leeson, David B.
Riordan, Michael, 1946-
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA