Leslie Berlin is an American historian. Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Career

Berlin received her Ph.D. in History from

in 2001 and also holds a B.A. from Yale University in American Studies. Berlin's first book, 2005's ''The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley'', was a biography of inventor-entrepreneur

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. He is also credited wit ...

. Her second book, 2017's ''Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age'', is a history of the Valley in the period 1969-1983. ''Troublemakers'' looks at the work of seven individuals during these years when the software, personal computing, video game, advanced semiconductor logic, and venture capital industries first took shape. Bob Taylor kick-started the precursor to the Internet, the Arpanet, and masterminded the personal computer. Mike Markkula served as Apple’s first chairman, with an ownership stake equal to that of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Sandra Kurtzig, an early software entrepreneur, was the first woman to take a technology company public. Bob Swanson cofounded Genentech. Al Alcorn designed the first wildly successful video game, Atari’s Pong. Fawn Alvarez rose from an assembler on a factory line to the executive suite. Niels Reimers changed how university innovations reach the public; in the process, he helped launch the biotech industry. Berlin was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2012–2013 and served on the advisory committee to the

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is t ...

at the Smithsonian’s

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is t ...

. She was a “Prototype” columnist for ''The New York Times'' and has commented on Silicon Valley for the ''Wall Street Journal,'' NPR, PBS, the BBC, ''The Atlantic'' and ''Wired.''

Works

*''The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley'' New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. , *''Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age'', Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2017. ,

References

External links

Leslie Berlin's website

Silicon Valley Archives
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