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Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University
Stanford University Libraries
Green Library - HASRG
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Reading Room at Green Library
Contact: Leslie Berlin, Project Historian
Telephone: 650-736-2010
Email: lberlin@stanford.edu (best
means of contact)
Conditions of Access
The Silicon Valley Archives are part of the Special Collections
and University Archives at Stanford University. The collections
are open to members of the general public. Since all materials
are located in remote facilities, patrons must request materials
two full business days before planned date of use. In some cases,
paging may take up to a week. More details about access and requesting
materials can be found at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/index.html.
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Overview
Since the early-1980s, the Stanford University Libraries have
been committed to documenting the history of innovation and innovators
at Stanford and in Silicon Valley.
Collections span the rise of the Valley from the early days
of companies such as Varian Associates and Hewlett-Packard (both
of which have Stanford roots), through Ampex and Fairchild, and
right up to Apple and Second Life.
The archives also sponsor the Silicon Genesis oral history project
(http://silicongenesis.stanford.edu),
which includes oral histories from many Silicon Valley pioneers.
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One of the nascent industries in Silicon Valley revolves around
computer games and digital simulation. The Preserving Digital
Worlds project (http://howtheygotgame.stanford.edu)
explores methods, infrastructure, standards, and technology for
preserving the complex software, content, and interactivity in
computer games and electronic literature, as well as the transactions
and interactions that constitute the user experience. Partners
include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University
of Maryland, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of
Technology, and Linden Lab. Funding is provided by partner institutions
and by the Preserving Creative America (PCA) initiative under
the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation
Program (NDIIPP), administered by the Library of Congress.
Selected Holdings
The Silicon Valley Archives are the world’s greatest
repository of materials related to the history and development
of Silicon Valley. Included in the collection are the papers
and artifacts of:
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- American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Ampex
- Apple Computer
- Steven Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing
- Douglas Engelbart, computer scientist whose pioneering work
in the 1950s and 1960s (first at SRI International, later at
Tymshare, Inc.) led to the development of the interactive personal
computer
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Edward Feigenbaum, pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence
- Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborn 1 computer
- Andrew S. Grove Speeches
- Hewlett-Packard
- Homebrew Computer Club
- Industry associations (SEMI, AEA)
- Donald Knuth, programming language pioneer
- Doug Menuez (photographer), Silicon Valley documentary (50,000
photographs)
- Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, co-founder
of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
- People’s Computing Company
- William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, founder
of Shockley Semiconductor, and controversial Stanford professor
- Frederick Terman, Stanford provost whose efforts to form
a “community of technical scholars” helped to seed
Silicon Valley
- Varian Instruments
- Mark Weiser, chief technologist Xerox PARC
- Whole Earth Catalog
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