Xerrada en línia 'Experiències treballant al silici de Califòrnia Vall dels anys 80' — Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona

The southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area has been the birthplace for many electronic innovations throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. The first radio station in the United States with regularly scheduled programming started in San Jose in 1909; William Shockley set up his Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View in 1956; both cities are in the Santa Clara County of California. Roughly 1970 is typically considered the beginning of what became known as Silicon Valley because of the number of electronics companies supporting each other and competing against each other within the geographical area called Santa Clara Valley and the governmental boundary area of Santa Clara County. The funding for this innovation and growth came largely from venture capital groups, many of which had offices in the same valley. By 1980, much of the necessary structure and protocols for doing business had been established, some of those companies still exist today, some do not. The industry still had much growing to do, new tools to be perfected and advances beyond believed physical limits to be achieved, in order to create what we understand the industry to be today.

"I will review my experiences working in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, experiences in two so-called “startup” companies and in one of the standard bearers, Intel Corporation. I hope to provide a view of what work in this environment was like then, what were some problems still being worked and the whole “startup” experience, which had many differences from working in a well-established company".

By Alexander A. Grillo, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. Retired.

Quan: 21 de novembre - 16h

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