San Antonio / Portland / Schenectady / Palo Alto / Los Altos / Graz / Pontecchio / Dallas / Paris / New York / Sunnyvale / /
Company
Arthur D. Little Inc. / Control Data Corp. / Hewlett-Packard / Tektronix Inc. / Intergalactic Digital Research / Electronic Control Co. / Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corp. / Volkswagen / Standard Telecommunications Laboratories Ltd. / Burr-Brown Research Corp. / Applied Microsystems Corp. / General Electric Co. / Interdesign Inc. / Texas Instruments / Netscape Communication Corp. / Fairchild Semiconductor’s R&D Laboratory / Intel Corp. / Applied Research Labs / MCI Mail / Walt Disney Studios / Bell Laboratories / Instrument Corp. / Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. / MCI Digital Information Services / Continental Wireless Co. / Digital Research Inc. / National Laboratories / Silicon Graphics Inc. / National Physical Laboratory / Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. / Array Design Inc. / Analog Devices Inc. / Analogic Corp. / Al Shugart International / Seagate Technology Inc. / ITT / EPSCO Inc. / Monolithic Memories Inc. / Vicor / Foxboro Co. / Bell Telephone Laboratories / John Fluke Engineering Co. / Shugart Associates / Atari Inc. / WorldCom / Intersil / Linear Technology Corp. / VLSI Systems / Eckert-Mauchly Computer Co. / Hoff / IBM / EckertMauchly Computer Corp. / 3Com Corp. / Apple Computer Corp. / AT&T / Bell Labs / Amp / Maxim Integrated Products / Peer Research Inc. / Walt Disney / Neumann Jim Williams Founding Vicor Corp. / Armstrong John Backus Paul Brokaw Hans Camenzind Radio / Cornell Electric Company / Xerox / Dubilier Condenser Corp. / National Semiconductor Corp. / Cray Research / Kao / /
Continent
Asia / Europe / /
Country
United Kingdom / Scotland / Italy / France / Austria / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Company Expansion / Person Travel / M&A / Person Communication and Meetings / Employment Change / Business Partnership / Reorganization / /
Facility
University of Rome / Technical University / Stanford University / University of Illinois / California Institute of Technology / University of California / Harvard University / Princeton University / National Physical Laboratory / University of Helsinki / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School / Institute of Advanced Studies / Kelly Air Force Base / Columbia University / University of California at Berkeley / King’s College / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center / University of Texas / garage of Packard’s Palo Alto / Reed College / American National Standards Institute / Cambridge University / /
IndustryTerm
television technologies / software engineering / ink-jet printing technology / free long-distance telephone calls / corporate staff applications / Web browser / mechanical devices / programmable devices / wireless communications / floppy-disk technology / security technologies / cumbersome signal-sensing device / computer networking protocol / early programmable logic devices / local-area networking / Internet users / power systems / important media applications / field-programmable logic technology / control devices / local electronics retailer / telemetry systems / word processing / semiconductor devices / large-scale computer equipment / pointand-click Web navigation / audio-related applications / zero-voltage switching technologies / graphical solution / printing / semiconductor device / Internet browser / measurement applications / large-scale computer technologies / power electronics industry / data management / electronics / basic tool / chip makers / data networks / medical electronics / primitive devices / server software / programmable metal-to-metal technology / software tools / chip maker / logic chips / computer technology / communications tools / design software / communications system / data processing / Internet use / borrowed and improvised equipment / vector register technology / electronics industry / earth satellite / computing / higher-performance devices / wireless telegraphy / wireless communication / telephone transmitter / laser-jet printing technology / graphical instrumentation software package / wireless telegraph transmitter / radar systems / telephone attachment / test equipment / software development concepts / terabit technology / measurement tools / signal processing / wireless signals / communications revolution / microchip technology / graphical software / elite research tool / desktop printing calculator / secret communications system / software programs / measurement device / inaugural product / automation solutions / cellular telephone age / /
MusicGroup
FM / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic Ocean / /
OperatingSystem
Unix / CP/M / Linux / /
Organization
University of California / University of Texas at Austin / Stanford’s School of Engineering / U.S. Army Signal Corps / American National Standards Institute / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Army / Institute for Advanced Studies / Institute of Advanced Studies / the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering / United States Navy / U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency / Reed College in Portland / University of Illinois / University of Rome / Cambridge University / Columbia University / Princeton University / Technical University / Stanford University Graduate School / At Xerox’s Systems Development Division / Wozniak’s Homebrew Computer Club / University of Helsinki / Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva / California Institute of Technology / Harvard’s School of Engineering / Harvard University / University of California / Berkeley / Free Software Foundation / Software Engineering Systems Division / Stanford University / King’s College / Logic Systems Division / Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge / /
Person
Moore Robert / James Truchard Jeff Kodosky / Edwin Armstrong John Backus Paul / Charles H. Vollum / E. Shannon Alan / Carver A. Mead / George Antheil / Lamarr / Navigator / Nikola Tesla Linus Torvalds Alan / Hedy Lamarr Bob Mammano Guglielmo Marconi Robert / Williams / Frederick Terman / Hua-Thye Chua James / Thomas Edison John / Gordon E. Moore Robert / A. Mead Lynn Conway William / Grace Hopper / Pease Donald / William Nowlin / Marc Andreessen / Louis B. Mayer / Truchard Jeff Kodosky / Steven Wozniak Steven / John M. Fluke Jr. David / Philip H. Smith Nikola Tesla Linus / George A. Philbrick Dennis / Robert Widlar / Presper Eckert / Steven P. Jobs Wozniak / James H. Clark / Bernard M. Gordon / Brian Kernighan / M. Ritchie Claude / Bardeen Walter / Vinton Cerf Seymour Cray Bob / Robert A. Pease Donald / Brokaw / Robert E. Kahn / Stan Mazor / Vinciarelli Charles / Bob Dobkin William Dubilier Recognized / Dobkin William Dubilier Recognized / Dennis M. Ritchie / Ken Thompson / Mervin Kelly / Shockley By / Edison John / Fred Beck / Andrew S. Grove Marcian (Ted) / George Westinghouse / Robert N. Noyce Robert / H. Clark By / Jack Gifford / William K.L. Dickson / Alan M. Turing Smith / William R. Hewlett David Packard / Robert M. Metcalfe Dubbed / Kilby Gary Kildall Widely / Alan F. Shugart / Claude E. Shannon / Alexander Graham Bell / H. Neal Certificate / Howard Vollum / David Fullagar Bernard / Anthony Loder / George A. Philbrick Researches / Jung Charles Kao Jack Kilby Gary / Andy Chan / /
Position
vice president of R&D and vice president of applications / vice president / chairman and CEO / General / founder / CEO / senior vice president of architecture and technology / professor / Designer / established physicist / professor of computer science / programmer / manager / general manager / speaker / Professor of Electrical Engineering / Co-author / consultant / scientist / officer / president / CEO / circuit design consultant / leader / staff scientist / linear schematic model / young engineer / president / research mathematician / assistant director of R&D / operations and vice president of research and development / engineer / FTP site manager / group leader / first executive scientist / director of advanced circuit development / field engineer / first president and chief engineer / chairman of the board and executive chairman / prolific / authoritative writer / video designer / research scientist / first PWM controller / corporate director of research / chief engineer / director of Societal Impact of Technology / dean / physicist / chairman / General Public License / avant garde musician / vice president of engineering and chief technical officer / controller / leader in the development / first IC designer / chairman of the board / physicist and former professor / co-founder / /
Product
Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System / Apple i Smartphone / /
ProgrammingLanguage
PL/M / C / LabView / /
ProvinceOrState
Utah / California / Texas / Illinois / Newfoundland / Pennsylvania / Massachusetts / New York / Connecticut / Oregon / /