Co-sponsored by: UM IEEE Student Branch, TEMS, Young Professionals, & WIE

Why did Silicon Valley come into being? The story goes back to local Hams (amateur radio operators) trying to break RCA’s tube patents, Stanford “angel” investors, the sinking of the Titanic, Fred Terman and Stanford University, local invention of high-power tubes (gammatron, klystron), WW II and radar, William Shockley’s mother living in Palo Alto, and the SF Bay Area infrastructure that developed — these factors pretty much determined that the semiconductor and IC industries would be located in the Santa Clara Valley, and that the Valley would remain the world’s innovation center as new technologies emerged — computers, then software, mobile, biotech, Big Data, VR, and now autonomous vehicles — and it would become the model for innovation worldwide

Speaker(s): Paul Wesling,

Agenda:

6:00 pm Networking & appetizers

6:40: start of Lecture

Location:
Room: Room 1670
Bldg: Bob & Betsy Beyster building North Campus
2260 Hayward St
Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109