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Thin Film Memories
The low-cost cloud applications we enjoy today would not be possible if not for the low-cost hard-drive. This series of videos provides a glimpse of the challenges and the cleverness of the folks who developed the technology in the 70s and 80s that laid part of the foundation for today’s innovations. These video segments were…
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Intel’s Rise as the Microprocessor King – Part 7
Weissberger refocuses the discussion around microprocessors, noting that Intel didn’t always have the best architecture. House adds “never.” But Intel took a systems approach to the microprocessor business, while their competitors didn’t. How did that come about? Dave says that Bob Noyce instilled the systems approach within Intel. “The more you put on the chip,…
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Discovery and Learning in Silicon Valley
“Learning is the process of discovering and exploring,” says former student and ClassConnect founder, Eric Simons. Simons talks about the importance of putting rich (e.g. video, audio, interactivity) content into the hands of students to engage them in the learning process. His company, ClassConnect, has content curation and creation tools that fit into a teacher’s…
