The definitive guide to the places and people that built the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California, evoking a sense of the Hollywood-like magic that made Silicon Valley a locale envied the world over. How to Use This Book vi Introduction: Thank You, Mama Shockley viii Palo Alto and Menlo Park The Federal Telegraph Company 3(2) Stanford University 5(10) University Avenue and the Stanford Shopping Center 15(2) Hewlett-Packard 17(6) The HP Garage 23(3) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 26(3) Xerox PARC 29(4) Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital Mecca 33(5) SRI International 38(5) Fairchild Semiconductor 43(7) Mountain View Castro Street 50(2) Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory 52(5) The Computer History Museum 57(4) Fenwick & West 61(2) Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus 63(2) Silicon Graphics Inc. 65(3) The Stevens Creek Trail 68(5) NASA Ames 73(4) The SETI Institute 77(2) Netscape 79(2) Google 81(13) Santa Clara and Sunnyvale Intel 94(15) Lockheed Martin 109(2) Sun Microsystems 111(10) Advanced Micro Devices 121(3) Yahoo! 124(10) San Jose The World's First Broadcast Station: KQW 134(1) IBM-Research 135(2) San Jose City Hall 137(2) Santana Row 139(4) eBay 143(4) Winchester Mystery House 147(4) San Jose State University 151(1) Lick Observatory 152(2) Cisco Systems 154(4) The Tech Museum of Innovation 158(3) Children's Discovery Museum 161(3) San Francisco Green Street Lab 164(2) The Exploratorium 166(1) The Wave Organ 167(2) The Letterman Digital Arts Center 169(3) Moscone Center 172(2) Moscone Center Hotels 174(2) The Metreon 176(1) Craigslist.org 177(4) Silicon Justice: San Francisco's Courthouses 181(1) Electronic Frontier Foundation 182(2) Microsoft Research Center 184(3) Genentech 187(2) Technology Publishers Row 189(4) AT&T Park 193(3) Monster/Candlestick Park 196(4) Out and About in Silicon Valley: The Surrounding Scene University of California-Berkeley 200(3) Woodside 203(2) Oracle, Redwood Shores 205(4) Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos 209(1) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek 210(3) Electronics Arts, Redwood City 213(2) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore 215(8) Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore 223(1) Alviso 223(1) Drawbridge 224(1) Apple Computer, Cupertino 225(6) Drive the Valley: Best Routes for Seeing it All 231(8) Suggested Reading 239(3) Surf the Valley 242(3) Index 245