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A View to a Kill
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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A9.com
A9.com was a former subsidiary of Amazon that developed search engine and search advertising technology.
Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable, abbreviated as AR or A/R, are legally enforceable claims for payment held by a business for goods supplied or services rendered that customers have ordered but not paid for.
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Actel
Actel Corporation (formerly NASDAQ:ACTL) was an American manufacturer of nonvolatile, low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), mixed-signal FPGAs, and programmable logic solutions.
Actuate Corporation
Actuate Corporation is a publicly traded reporting, analytics and customer communications software company based in San Mateo, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
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Adaptec
Adaptec, Inc., was a computer storage company and remains a brand for computer storage products.
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Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.
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Aeria Games
Aeria Games, formerly known as Aeria Games and Entertainment, was an online game publisher.
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Aeronautics
Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.
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Aerospace
Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space.
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies, Inc. is a global company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for laboratories.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
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Alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a plain (a largely flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms.
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Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU.
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Altera
Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California.
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Amazon Lab126
Amazon Lab126 (sometimes known as Lab126) is an American research and development and computer hardware company owned by Amazon.com.
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.
Amdahl Corporation
Amdahl Corporation was an information technology company which specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products, some of which were regarded as supercomputers competing with those from Cray Research.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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American Experience
American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.
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AnnaLee Saxenian
AnnaLee Saxenian is a professor and the former Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information, known widely for her work on technology clusters and social networks in Silicon Valley.
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Apple I
The Apple Computer 1 (Apple-1), later known predominantly as the Apple I, is an 8-bit motherboard-only personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak and released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976.
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Apple II
The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
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Apple Park
Apple Park, also known as Apple Campus 2, is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States.
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Applied Materials
Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and solar products.
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Arc converter
The arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, or Poulsen arc after Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen who invented it in 1903, was a variety of spark transmitter used in early wireless telegraphy.
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ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
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Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Atmel
Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016.
Augmentation Research Center
SRI International's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) was founded in the 1960s by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.
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Bank of America
The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan.
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Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
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Barnes & Noble Nook
The Barnes & Noble Nook (styled nook or NOOK) is a brand of e-readers developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, based on the Android platform.
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Bay Area Medical Academy
Bay Area Medical Academy (BAMA) is a private for-profit college with two campuses in California providing medical assisting with phlebotomy and EKG training.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Be Inc.
Be Inc. was an American computer company that created and developed the BeOS and BeIA operating systems, and the BeBox personal computer.
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BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products, which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.
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Betas
Betas is an American television series produced by Amazon Studios.
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
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Bill Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
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Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) is a U.S. listed company founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009.
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Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
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Boosterism
Boosterism is the act of promoting ("boosting") a town, city, or organization, with the goal of improving public perception of it.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Bravo (American TV network)
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980.
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Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets.
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Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade was an American technology company specializing in storage networking products, now a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
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Burroughs Corporation
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.
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Business casual
Business casual is an ambiguously defined Western dress code that is generally considered casual wear but with smart (in the sense of "well dressed") components of a proper lounge suit from traditional informal wear, adopted for white-collar workplaces.
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Business park
A business park or office park is a designated area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together.
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Cañada College
Cañada College is a public community college in Redwood City, California.
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Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence)Investor's Business Daily Retrieved November 12, 2020 is an American multinational technology and computational software company.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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California county routes in zone G
There are 21 routes assigned to the "G" zone of the California Route Marker Program, which designates county routes in California.
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California Department of Housing and Community Development
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency that develops housing policy and building codes (i.e. the California Building Standards Code), regulates manufactured homes and mobilehome parks, and administers housing finance, economic development and community development programs.
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California housing shortage
Since about 1970, California has been experiencing an extended and increasing housing shortage, such that by 2018, California ranked 49th among the states of the U.S. in terms of housing units per resident.
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California South Bay University
California South Bay University is a BPPE (Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education) approved private educational institution (School Code: 13317491) based in Sunnyvale, California.
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California University of Management and Technology
The California University of Management and Technology (CALMAT) is a private unaccredited tertiary education provider in Sunnyvale, California.
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Campbell, California
Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Campus network
A campus network, campus area network, corporate area network or CAN is a computer network made up of an interconnection of local area networks (LANs) within a limited geographical area.
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Cantor Arts Center
Cantor Arts Center (officially Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, previously the Stanford University Museum of Art) is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States.
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Capital gain
Capital gain is an economic concept defined as the profit earned on the sale of an asset which has increased in value over the holding period.
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Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is a degree-granting branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in Mountain View, California.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Chabot College
Chabot College (Chabot or CC) is a public community college in Hayward, California.
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Charles Herrold
Charles David "Doc" Herrold (November 16, 1875 – July 1, 1948) was an American inventor and pioneer radio broadcaster, who began experimenting with audio radio transmissions in 1909.
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Chemical element
A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.
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Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM) is a cultural institution serving children, families, and schools in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area.
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Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.
Cisco Webex
Webex by Cisco is an American company that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications.
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Code Monkeys
Code Monkeys is an American adult animated sitcom by Adam de la Peña.
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Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
On March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed after a bank run, marking the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the largest since the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
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Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
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Computer hardware
Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.
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Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.
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Computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
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Coral Springs, Florida
Coral Springs is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
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Craigslist
Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
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Crain Communications
Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.
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Cupertino, California
Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company.
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Cyril Frank Elwell
Cyril Frank Elwell (August 20, 1884 – February 11, 1963) was an Australian-bornHugh G.J. Aitken, The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932 Princeton University Press, 2014, Chapter 3 Elwell, Fuller and the Arc American inventor and pioneer in development of radio.
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DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–68, 1972–93) of HP.
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De Anza College
De Anza College is a public community college in Cupertino, California, United States.
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De Saisset Museum
The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University opened in 1955, after Isabel de Saisset, the last member of a California pioneer family bequeathed her estate to the University of Santa Clara.
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Dell EMC
Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Round Rock, Texas, United States.
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Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
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Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
DeVry University
DeVry University is a privately owned for-profit university.
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Devs (TV series)
Devs is an American science fiction thriller television miniseries created, written, and directed by Alex Garland.
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Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher.
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Do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.
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Don Hoefler
Donald C. Hoefler (October 3, 1922 – April 15, 1986) was an American journalist, well known for using the term "Silicon Valley" for the first time in print.
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
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Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science.
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Downtown San Jose
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, United States.
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East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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East Palo Alto, California
East Palo Alto (abbreviated E.P.A.) is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States.
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EBay
eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
Economic sector
One classical breakdown of economic activity distinguishes three sectors.
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El Camino Real (California)
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, often translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
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El Observador (San Jose)
El Observador (EO) is a weekly bilingual (English and Spanish) print and online newspaper, which has been in business since 1980.
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Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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Electronic circuit
An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.
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Electronic News
Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry, from semiconductor equipment and materials to military/aerospace electronics to supercomputers.
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Ellen Pao
Ellen Kangru Pao (born 1970) is an American investor and former interim CEO of social media company Reddit.
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Entrepreneurship ecosystem
An entrepreneurial ecosystem or entrepreneurship ecosystems are peculiar systems of interdependent actors and relations directly or indirectly supporting the creation and growth of new ventures.
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Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).
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Evergreen Valley College
Evergreen Valley College (EVC) is a public community college in San Jose, California.
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Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, Inc. is an American networking company based in Morrisville, North Carolina.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
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Facebook F8
Facebook F8 is a mostly-annual conference held by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) since 2007, intended for developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the website.
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Fail fast (business)
Fail fast, also sometimes termed fail fast, fail often or fail cheap, is a business management concept and theory of organizational psychology that argues businesses should encourage employees to use a trial-and-error process to quickly determine and assess the long-term viability of a product or strategy and move on, cutting losses rather than continuing to invest in a doomed approach.
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Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
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Financial Post
The Financial Post is a financial news website, and business section of the National Post, both publications of the Postmedia Network.
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Flex Ltd.
Flex Ltd. (previously known as Flextronics International Ltd. or Flextronics) is an American headquartered multinational diversified manufacturing company.
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Foothill College
Foothill College is a public community college in Los Altos Hills, California.
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Fortune 1000
The Fortune 1000 are the 1,000 largest American companies ranked by revenues, as compiled by the American business magazine Fortune.
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Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. was a networking hardware vendor selling high-end Ethernet switches and routers.
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Fred Moore (activist)
Fred Moore (1941–1997) was an American political activist who was central to the early history of the personal computer.
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Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator.
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Free market
In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.
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Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
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Gavilan College
Gavilan College is a public community college in Santa Clara County, California.
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Geeknet
Geeknet, Inc. is an American company that is a subsidiary of GameStop based in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Gen Digital
Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
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General Micro-electronics
General Micro-electronics (GMe) was an American semiconductor company in the 1960s.
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Gilroy, California
Gilroy is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries Inc. is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York.
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Golden Gate University
Golden Gate University (GGU or Golden Gate) is a private university in San Francisco, California.
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Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Googleplex
The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
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GoPro
GoPro, Inc. (marketed as GoPro and sometimes stylized as GoPRO) is an American technology company founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman.
Gordon French
Gordon French (March 7, 1935 - October 26, 2019) was an American computer engineer and programmer who played a key role in the Homebrew Computer Club.
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Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.
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Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.
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Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture.
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Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)
Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers.
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Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic Inc. is an American technology company that develops and markets video routing, server, and storage products for companies that produce, process, and distribute video content for television and the Internet.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen (born 1958) is a Silicon Valley executive, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas.
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Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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HGST
HGST, Inc. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services.
High tech
High technology (high tech or high-tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available.
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High-net-worth individual
High-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a technical term used in the financial services industry for people who maintain liquid assets at or above a certain threshold.
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Hiller Aviation Museum
The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California focused on Northern California aviation history, Hiller Aircraft and helicopter history.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hispanic
The term Hispanic (hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly.
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History Park
History Park at Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA is designed as an indoor/outdoor museum, arranged to appear as a small US town might have in the early 1900s (decade).
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Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) was a provider of modular mid-range and high-end computer data storage systems, software, and services.
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Homebrew Computer Club
The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist group in Menlo Park, California, which met from March 1975 to December 1986.
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Homeless shelter
Homeless shelters are a type of service that provides temporary residence for homeless individuals and families.
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Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.
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HP Garage
The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded.
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HP Inc.
HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing services.
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IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.
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IDEO
IDEO is a design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S., England, and China.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore (stylized as IEEE Xplore) digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
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Indian Americans
Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.
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Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies AG is Germany's largest semiconductor manufacturer.
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Informatica
Informatica Inc. is an American software development company founded in 1993.
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Information Processing Techniques Office
The Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), originally "Command and Control Research",Lyon, Matthew; Hafner, Katie (1999-08-19).
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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InfoWorld
InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.
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Initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.
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Inkjet printing
Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper and plastic substrates.
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Innovation
Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971.
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Intel 8080
The Intel 8080 ("eighty-eighty") is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel.
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Intel Museum
The Intel Museum located at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States, has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general.
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Intergalactic Computer Network
Intergalactic Computer Network or Galactic Network (IGCN) was a computer networking concept similar to today's Internet.
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International Technological University
International Technological University (ITU) is a private university in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
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InterNIC
InterNIC, known as the Network Information Center (NIC) until 1993, was the organization primarily responsible for Domain Name System (DNS) domain name allocations and X.500 directory services.
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Intuit
Intuit Inc. is an American multinational business software company that specializes in financial software.
Intuitive Surgical
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is an American biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery, most notably with the ''da Vinci'' Surgical System.
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J. C. R. Licklider
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or "Lick", was an American psychologistMiller, G. A.
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James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
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Jessup University
Jessup University is a private Christian university in Rocklin, California, with additional sites in San Jose, California and Portland, Oregon.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jobs (film)
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001.
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
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Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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KGO-TV
KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's ABC network outlet.
KLA Corporation
KLA Corporation is an American capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California.
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Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies.
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KNTV
KNTV (channel 11), branded NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the NBC outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography.
KQED (TV)
KQED (channel 9) is a PBS member television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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KQED-FM
KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial public radio station in San Francisco, California.
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Lam Research
Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry.
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Laser printing
Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process.
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Law firm
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law.
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Lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law.
Leadership
Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
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Lincoln Law School of San Jose
Lincoln Law School of San Jose is a private, non-profit, unaccredited, law school located in San Jose, California.
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Line of credit
A line of credit is a credit facility extended by a bank or other financial institution to a government, business or individual customer that enables the customer to draw on the facility when the customer needs funds.
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LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.
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List of regions of California
This is a list of regions of California, organized by location.
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List of research parks
The following is a list of science park, technology parks and biomedical parks of the world, organized by continent.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of technology centers
This is a list some of technology centers throughout the world.
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List of tourist attractions in Santa Clara Valley
This is a list of tourist attractions in and around Silicon Valley, it includes parts or most of Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and Alameda County.
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List of United States cities by population
This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States.
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Lockheed Corporation
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer.
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Lockheed Martin Space
Lockheed Martin Space is one of the four major business divisions of Lockheed Martin.
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Longitudinal valley
A longitudinal valley is an elongated valley found between two almost-parallel mountain chains in geologically young fold mountains, such as the Alps, Carpathians, Andes, or the highlands of Central Asia.
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Los Altos History Museum
The Los Altos History Museum (LAHM) is a museum in Los Altos, California.
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Los Altos, California
Los Altos (Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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LSI Corporation
LSI Logic Corporation, was an American company founded in Santa Clara, California, was a pioneer in the ASIC and EDA industries.
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Mac (computer)
Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.
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Malta, New York
Malta is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.
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Marcian Hoff
Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937, in Rochester, New York) is one of the inventors of the microprocessor.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.
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Masatoshi Shima
is a Japanese electronics engineer.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Route 128
Route 128, known as the Yankee Division Highway, is an expressway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts maintained by the Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Silicon Valley and Massachusetts Route 128 are high-technology business districts in the United States.
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Maxim Integrated
Maxim Integrated, a subsidiary of Analog Devices, designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets.
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Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation was an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer.
McAfee
McAfee Corp., formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and 2004 to 2014, Network Associates Inc. from 1997 to 2004, and Intel Security Group from 2014 to 2017, is an American global computer security software company headquartered in San Jose, California.
McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Megaregions of the United States
The megaregions of the United States are eleven regions of the United States that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems, including transportation, economies, resources, and ecologies, experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, perceive and act as if they are a continuous urban area.
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Memorex
Memorex Corp. began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become both a consumer media supplier and a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier.
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Menlo College
Menlo College is a private college specializing in business and is located in Atherton, California, United States.
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Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County within the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States.
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Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California.
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Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
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Metro Silicon Valley
Metro is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose, California, based Metro Newspapers.
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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, Inc. (MITS), was an American electronics company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico that began manufacturing electronic calculators in 1971 and personal computers in 1975.
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Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology Incorporated is a publicly listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits.
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Microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
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Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation was an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Milpitas, California
Milpitas (Spanish for) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley.
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Mission College (California)
Mission College (Mission or MC) is a public community college in Santa Clara, California.
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Moffett Federal Airfield
Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale.
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Morgan Hill, California
Morgan Hill is a city in Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Move (company)
Move, Inc. is a real estate listing company based in Santa Clara, California.
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Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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National University (California)
National University is a private university headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and cloud operations (CloudOps) solutions to enterprise customers.
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
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Nina Burleigh
Nina D. Burleigh is an American writer and investigative journalist, She writes books, articles, essays and reviews.
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Non-compete clause
In contract law, a non-compete clause (often NCC), restrictive covenant, or covenant not to compete (CNC), is a clause under which one party (usually an employee) agrees not to enter into or start a similar profession or trade in competition against another party (usually the employer).
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Northern California
Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
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Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.
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Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
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Ohlone College
Ohlone College (Ohlone or OC) is a public community college with its main campus in Fremont, California and a second campus in Newark.
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Onizuka Air Force Station
Onizuka Air Force Station or Onizuka AFS was a United States Air Force installation in Sunnyvale, California, at the intersection of State Route 237 and North Mathilda Avenue.
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Onsemi
ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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Oslo
Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.
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Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software.
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Palmer College of Chiropractic
Palmer College of Chiropractic is a private chiropractic college with its main campus in Davenport, Iowa.
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Palo Alto Art Center
The Palo Alto Art Center is a multi-purpose center open to the public for art activities for all ages, located at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto, California.
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Palo Alto University
Palo Alto University (PAU) is a private university in Palo Alto, California that focuses on psychology and counseling.
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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Pao v. Kleiner Perkins
Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC and DOES 1-20 is a lawsuit filed in 2012 in San Francisco County Superior Court under the law of California by executive Ellen Pao for gender discrimination against her employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
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PARC (company)
SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Silicon Valley and PARC (company) are science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Patch Media
Patch Media, also known as Patch, operates Patch.com, an American local news and information platform, based in Manhattan.
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Patent attorney
A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents.
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PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
PayPal Mafia
The "PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley, such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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People's Computer Company
People's Computer Company (PCC) was an organization, a newsletter (the People's Computer Company Newsletter) and, later, a quasiperiodical called the Dragonsmoke.
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Peralta Community College District
The Peralta Community College District is the community college district serving northern Alameda County, California.
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Pirates of Silicon Valley
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 American biographical drama television film directed by Martyn Burke and starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates.
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PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications, optical networking, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces.
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PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
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Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications.
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Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Production of the James Bond films
The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.
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Proofpoint, Inc.
Proofpoint, Inc. is an American enterprise cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California that provides software as a service and products for email security, identity threat defense, data loss prevention, electronic discovery, and email archiving.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Public Policy Institute of California
The Public Policy Institute of California is an independent, non-profit research institution.
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Quantcast
Quantcast is an American technology company, founded in 2006, that specializes in AI-driven real-time advertising, audience insights and measurement.
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Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, aka ES-202) is a program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US Department of Labor.
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Quora
Quora is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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Rambus
Rambus Inc. is an American technology company that designs, develops and licenses chip interface technologies and architectures that are used in digital electronics products.
Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Redwood City, California
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose.
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Regents of the University of California
The Regents of the University of California (also referred to as the Board of Regents to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same name) is the governing board of the University of California (UC), a state university system in the U.S. state of California.
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Reston, Virginia
Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and a principal city of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.
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Revenue Act of 1921
The United States Revenue Act of 1921 (ch. 136,, November 23, 1921) was the first Republican tax reduction following their landslide victory in the 1920 federal elections.
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Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.
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Roku, Inc.
Roku, Inc. is an American technology company founded by Anthony Wood in 2002.
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RSA Security
RSA Security LLC, formerly RSA Security, Inc. and trade name RSA, is an American computer and network security company with a focus on encryption and encryption standards.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.
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San Francisco Bay University
San Francisco Bay University, formerly Northwestern Polytechnic University, is a private university in Fremont, California.
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San Francisco County Superior Court
The Superior Court of California of the County of San Francisco is the state superior court with jurisdiction over the City and County of San Francisco.
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San Francisco Peninsula
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. Silicon Valley and San Francisco Peninsula are Subregions of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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San Jose City College
San José City College (SJCC) is a public community college in San Jose, California.
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San Jose Convention Center
The San Jose McEnery Convention Center (commonly known simply as the San Jose Convention Center) is a convention center in Downtown San Jose, California.
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San Jose Museum of Art
The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States.
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San Jose State University
San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County, officially the County of San Mateo, is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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Sand Hill Road
Sand Hill Road, often shortened to just "Sand Hill" or "SHR", is an arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms.
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SanDisk
SanDisk LLC is an American multinational computer technology company based in Milpitas, California.
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Sanmina Corporation
Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields.
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Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census.
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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Santa Clara Valley
The Santa Clara Valley (Spanish: Valle de Santa Clara) is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends south–southeast from San Francisco to Hollister. Silicon Valley and Santa Clara Valley are Subregions of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California.
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Saratoga, California
Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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Science History Institute
The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science.
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Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Semiconductor industry
The semiconductor industry is the aggregate of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.
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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors.
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ServiceNow
ServiceNow, Inc. is an American software company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops a cloud computing platform to help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations.
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Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.
Shockley diode
The Shockley diode (named after physicist William Shockley) is a four-layer semiconductor diode, which was one of the first semiconductor devices invented.
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later known as Shockley Transistor Corporation, was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley, and funded by Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1955.
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Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.
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SiliCon
SiliCon with Adam Savage (formally Silicon Valley Comic Con) is an annual pop culture and technology convention, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.
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Silicon Valley (TV series)
Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky.
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Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a commercial bank division of First Citizens BancShares.
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Silicon Valley Historical Association
The Silicon Valley Historical Association (also known as the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association) is an organization that has interviewed notable figures in Silicon Valley since 1991 and produces documentaries, publishes books, and keeps filmed history of notable figures in the technological industry.
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Silicon Valley Pride
Silicon Valley Pride, also known as San Jose Pride, is an annual LGBT pride celebration in San Jose, California, the largest city in Silicon Valley.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, United States.
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Slashdot
Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.
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Small Business Administration
The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
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Sofia University (California)
Sofia University is a private for-profit university with two campuses in California, one in Costa Mesa and the other in Palo Alto.
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Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
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SolarCity
SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded company headquartered in Fremont, California, that sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony.
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Sony Mobile
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Corporation and Ericsson.
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Spring, Texas
Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the metropolitan area.
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SRI International
SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Silicon Valley and SRI International are science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Stanford Research Park
Stanford Research Park (SRP) is a technology park established in 1951 as a joint initiative between Stanford University and the City of Palo Alto.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer.
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Start-Up (South Korean TV series)
Start-Up is a South Korean television series starring Bae Suzy, Nam Joo-hyuk, Kim Seon-ho and Kang Han-na.
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Start-Ups: Silicon Valley
Start-Ups: Silicon Valley is an American reality television series that aired on Bravo.
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Startup company
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.
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Startup ecosystem
A startup ecosystem is formed by people in startups in their various stages, and various types of organizations in a location (physical or virtual) that are interacting as a system to create and scale new startup companies.
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
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Steve Jobs (film)
Steve Jobs is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin.
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Steve Wozniak
Stephen Wozniak (born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.
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Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
The Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum is a historical museum located in Sunnyvale, California.
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Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
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SunPower
SunPower Corporation is an American provider of photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products, primarily for residential customers.
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Super Pumped (TV series)
Super Pumped is an American anthology drama television series created by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, named for the 2019 nonfiction book of the same name by Mike Isaac.
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SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey Inc. (formerly Momentive Global Inc. for a short period) is an experience management company that offers cloud-based software in brand insights, market insights, product experience, employee experience, customer experience, online survey development, and a suite of paid back-end programs.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Synecdoche
Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte).
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Synnex
Synnex was an American multinational corporation that provided information technology (IT) services to businesses.
Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality.
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Syntex
Laboratorios Syntex SA (later Syntex Laboratories, Inc.) was a pharmaceutical company formed in Mexico City in January 1944 by Russell Marker, Emeric Somlo, and Federico Lehmann to manufacture therapeutic steroids from the Mexican yams called cabeza de negro (Dioscorea mexicana) and Barbasco (Dioscorea composita).
T. J. Rodgers
Thurman John "T.
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TCL Technology
TCL Technology Group Corp. (originally an abbreviation for Telephone Communication Limited) is a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong Province.
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
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Technology company
A technology company (or tech company) is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of — most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics-based — technology-intensive products and services, which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy and internet-related services such as cloud storage and e-commerce services.
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Tempe, Arizona
Tempe (Oidbaḍ in O'odham) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2020 population of 180,587.
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Tesla, Inc.
Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company.
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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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The Dropout
The Dropout is an American biographical drama television miniseries that dramatises the rise and fall of the disgraced biotechnology company Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, played by Amanda Seyfried.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Internship
The Internship is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, and produced by Vaughn and Levy.
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The Mercury News
The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Mother of All Demos
"The Mother of All Demos" was a landmark computer demonstration of developments by the Augmentation Research Center, given at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society's Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968. Silicon Valley and the Mother of All Demos are science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.
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The Social Network
The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
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The Tech Interactive
The Tech Interactive (formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation, commonly known as The Tech) is a science and technology center that offers hands-on activities, labs, design challenges and other STEAM education resources. Silicon Valley and the Tech Interactive are science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Theranos
Theranos Inc. was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company.
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TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a business unit of Cloud Software Group that provides enterprise software.
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TiVo
TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999.
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
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Traffic congestion
Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.
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Traitorous eight
The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
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Travis Kalanick
Travis Cordell Kalanick (born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber.
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Triumph of the Nerds
Triumph of the Nerds is a 1996 British/American television documentary, produced by John Gau Productions and Oregon Public Broadcasting for Channel 4 and PBS.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly referred to as Uber, is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport.
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world.
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Unemployment
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.
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Unicorn (finance)
In business, a unicorn is a startup company valued at over US$1 billion which is privately owned and not listed on a share market.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Department of Labor
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California.
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University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California.
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University of Silicon Valley
The University of Silicon Valley (USV) is a private for-profit university in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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USS Macon (ZRS-5)
USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", carrying up to five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk parasite biplanes for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1s for training.
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Valley of the Boom
Valley of the Boom (stylized as Valley_of_the_BOOM) is an American docudrama television miniseries created by Matthew Carnahan that premiered on January 13, 2019, on National Geographic.
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Valuation (finance)
In finance, valuation is the process of determining the value of a (potential) investment, asset, or security.
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Varian Associates
Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.
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Venture capital
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.
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Verifone
Verifone, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida.
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Verisign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the,, and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the and sponsored top-level domains.
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Veritas Technologies
Veritas Technologies LLC is an American international data management company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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VMware
VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Walmart Labs
Walmart Labs (formerly named Kosmix and @WalmartLabs) became part of Walmart Global Tech, the technology and business services organization within Walmart.
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Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2 is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
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West Valley College
West Valley College is a public community college in Saratoga, California.
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Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Western United States
The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. Silicon Valley and William Shockley are science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Woodside, California
Woodside is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.
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Working capital
Working capital (WC) is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business, organisation, or other entity, including governmental entities.
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Worldwide Developers Conference
The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple Inc. The conference is usually held at Apple Park in California.
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Xerox
Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries.
Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices.
Xperi
Xperi Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that develops software for consumer electronics and connected cars, as well as media platforms for video service over broadband.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
Yelp
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Zoom Video Communications
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (commonly shortened to Zoom, and stylized as zoom) is a communications technology company primarily known for the videoconferencing application Zoom.
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Zurich
Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
Zynga
Zynga Inc. is an American developer running social video game services.
23andMe
23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California.
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3Com
3Com Corporation was an American digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network products.
8-bit computing
In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).
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8x8
8x8, Inc. is an American provider of Voice over IP products.
See also
Economic regions of California
- List of economic regions of California
- Silicon Beach
- Silicon Valley
- Southern Border Region (California)
High-technology business districts in the United States
- Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University
- Cortex Innovation Community
- Cummings Research Park
- Dulles Technology Corridor
- First Coast
- Golden Corridor
- Ignition Park
- Illinois Technology and Research Corridor
- Innovation Quarter
- Irvine Spectrum
- Kendall Square
- Massachusetts Route 128
- North Carolina Research Campus
- Optics Valley
- Philicon Valley
- Plants for Human Health Institute
- Research Triangle
- Research Triangle Park
- Silicon Alley
- Silicon Beach
- Silicon Forest
- Silicon Hills
- Silicon Mountain (Denver)
- Silicon Peach
- Silicon Prairie
- Silicon Slopes
- Silicon Valley
- Tech Valley
- TechTown
- Telecom Corridor
- The Pearl (Charlotte)
- University City (Charlotte neighborhood)
- University Park at MIT
- University Research Corridor
- University of Utah Research Park
- West Baltimore Innovation District
- Wireless Valley
Subregions of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Diablo Range
- East Bay
- Lamorinda
- Livermore Valley
- Napa Valley
- North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
- San Francisco Peninsula
- San Pablo Bay
- San Ramon Valley
- Santa Clara Valley
- Santa Cruz Mountains
- Silicon Valley
- Sonoma Valley
- Suisun Bay
- Telecom Valley
- Tri-Valley
- West Marin
- Wine Country
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Licklider, James Bond, Jesse Jackson, Jessup University, Jews, Jobs (film), John Bardeen, Juniper Networks, KGO-TV, KLA Corporation, Kleiner Perkins, KNTV, Kodak, KQED (TV), KQED-FM, Lam Research, Laser printing, Law firm, Lawyer, Leadership, Lincoln Law School of San Jose, Line of credit, LinkedIn, List of regions of California, List of research parks, List of sovereign states, List of technology centers, List of tourist attractions in Santa Clara Valley, List of United States cities by population, Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed Martin Space, Longitudinal valley, Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos, California, Los Gatos, California, LSI Corporation, Mac (computer), Malta, New York, Marcian Hoff, Mark Zuckerberg, Masatoshi Shima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Route 128, Maxim Integrated, Maxtor, McAfee, McGraw Hill Education, Megaregions of the United States, Memorex, Menlo College, Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Metonymy, Metro Silicon Valley, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, Microchip Technology, Microcomputer, Microprocessor, Microsemi, Microsoft, Milpitas, California, Mission College (California), Moffett Federal Airfield, Morgan Hill, California, Mountain View, California, Move (company), Mozilla Foundation, Muslims, NASA, Nasdaq, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, National Park Service, National Semiconductor, National University (California), NBC, NetApp, Netflix, New Jersey, New York University Press, Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, Non-compete clause, Northern California, Norway, Nvidia, O'Reilly Media, Oakland, California, Object-oriented programming, Ohlone College, Onizuka Air Force Station, Onsemi, Oracle Corporation, Oslo, Pacific Time Zone, Palm, Inc., Palmer College of Chiropractic, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California, Pao v. 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