How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
Tech Won't Save Us
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Stamford vs Cal Universit, Berkeley
M i t is, to a lesser degree, harvard, but particularly m i t, are really the anchors of the boston tech cluster. The people who are running those institutions are also the people designing science policy in washington like they're in it. Starting in the late forties and into the fifties, cherman and wally stirling, who's president of stamford at the time, started building up specialized electronics programmes. They build up graduate programmes in silican semi conductor fabrication, which was really niche. It very quickly establishes a strong symbeotic relationship between the two, the two institutions in the two regions,. "It's all about people," says
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