Summary
Leslie Berlin is an American historian. Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University.[1]
Leslie Berlin | |
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| Occupation | historian |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Website | |
| leslieberlinauthor | |
Career edit
Berlin received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University 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.[2]
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[3] and served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.[4] 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.
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References edit
- ^ "Silicon Valley Archives". Stanford Libraries. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
- ^ Berlin, Leslie (2005). The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. Oxford University Press. pp. 440. ISBN 978-0-19-516343-8.
- ^ "Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". Stanford University.
- ^ "Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation".
- ^ Biggs, John. "Historian Leslie Berlin talks about the rise of Silicon Valley". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
- ^ "Archivist Leslie Berlin Tackles Silicon Valley's Past in 'Troublemakers'". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
- ^ "The New Book That Puts Tech's Sexism Scandals Into Perspective". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Full transcript: Historian and author Leslie Berlin on Recode Decode". Recode. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
External links edit
- Leslie Berlin's website
- Silicon Valley Archives
- Appearances on C-SPAN