The impact of technology throughout history is reviewed and analyzed for the non-technical audience. Comparisons are made between windmills, electricity, computers, steel, the printing press and television. A brief history of technology in Silicon Valley guides the readers through the dot.com boom and bust. Quotes from Hewlett, Packard, and others are interspersed through the colorful photographs. Note: Steve Jobs personally wrote the Apple profile in 2001 for this book. Companies profiled in this book include: NEC Electronics; Samsung Semiconductor; Mentor Graphics Corporation; Linear Technology; Cypress Semiconductor; Asyst Technologies; Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.; Infineon Technologies; Atmel Corporation; Flextronics International Ltd.; Inktomi Corporation; Hewlett-Packard Company; Avaya; Oracle Corporation; Cisco Systems; Adobe Systems; Quantum Corporation; Fujitsu Software Corporation; Adaptec, Inc.; Hitachi, Ltd.; Autodesk; Apple; Sound Advantage LLC; Trend Micro, Inc.; Network Appliance SONICblue Incorporated; Varian Medical Systems; Agilent Technologies; SRI International; Acuson Corporation; Coherent, Inc.; IBM Corporation; Intel Corporation; Siemens AG; Tyco Electronics Corporation; Therma, Incl; Bank of America; Pacific Maintenance; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Toeniskoetter & Breeding, Inc.; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Keeble and Shuchat; Alain Pinel Realtors. Authors: Carol Whiteley & John McLaughlin Publication Date: 2002 Page Count: 127 pages ISBN: 0964921715
A colorful 100 year history of Silicon Valley. Chronicles the stages of development from the establishment of Stanford University to the present technological powerhouse. Over 70 technology company histories run chronologically throughout. Used as a primary reference text by most of the international news organizations, as a high school and college textbook and as a coffee table book. Companies profiled in this book include: United Defense; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; SRI International; Varian Associates; Unisys Corporation; National Semiconductor; Loral Corporation; Wiltron Company; Rudolph and Sletten; Sobrato Development, Ricoh Corporation, Philips Semiconductors; Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati; Siliconix, Inc.; Coherent, Inc.; Intel Corporation; Applied Materials; ALZA Corporation; Boole & Babbage; Tandem Computers; Advanced Micro Devices; Siemens, Rolm Communications; Etec Systems, Inc.; Northern Telecom; Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich; Knight-Ridder Information; Oracle Corporation; Apple Computer; Quantum Corporation; Collagen-Laserscope-Resound; KLA Instruments; Heuristics Search; Silicon Valley Group; Trimble; Microtek Labs Inc.; Adobe Systems; Sun Microsystems; Cirrus Logic, Inc.; Pyramid Technology; Xilinx, Inc.; Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Symantec; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Linear Technology; MIPS Technologies; Cypress Semiconductor; Storage Dimensions; San Francisco Production Group; GTE Mobilnet; Komag; Autodesk, Inc.; Acuson Corporation; Radius, Inc.; Conner Peripherals; Network General; Frame Technology; Bay Networks; Lucas NovaSensor; ASCI; Target Therapeutics; CKS Group; S3 Incorporated; Madge Networks; Bergeson, Eliopoulos, Grady & Gray; Asante Technologies; SunRize Industries; Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Authors: John McLaughlin & Ward Winslow Publication Date: 1996 Page Count: 141 pages ISBN: 0-9649217-0-7 Format: Hardcover
VARIAN: 50 Years of Innovative Excellence: A History of Varian Associates, Inc. from 1948 to 1998 is the authorized 50 year history of Varian Associates written by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association with the complete cooperation of Varian Associates. Chapters in this book include: The Founders and Their Ideals; Early Days in San Carlos; The Active Role of the Board of Directors; Affinity with Stanford University and the Move to Stanford Land; Multiplying Technologies; The Klystron; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications; The Vaclon Pump; Medical Linear Accelerators; The End of the Beginning; The Acquisition Years; A New Hand at the Helm; Selling Promising But Problematic Operations; Pioneering the Minicomputer; Selling Syva to Syntex; Opportunities Lost — CT Scanners and Ultrasound; New Management Undertakes Restructuring; The Difficult Mid-'80s; A New Approach to Leadership; Attaining Operational Excellence; Exiting Electron Devices; Health Care's Emergence; Instruments and Vacuum; Challenging the Chip Cycles; Accelerating Profitable Growth; Epilogue: The Second Half Century. Author: Ward Winslow Publication Date: 1998 Page Count: 96 pages ISBN: 0964921774
