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History of the garage where HP started. Hosted by Steve Staiger and P.A. Moore.

[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency. In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today. Author: ComputerHistory Keywords: Computer History Museum Silicon Valley Steve Blank RADAR WW II Cold War bombing B29 B17 Terman NSA CIA espionage spying electronic warfare Added: December 3, 2008

From The Massachusetts School of Law. How did World War 1 establish the widespread use of IQ tests? Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Stephen Murdoch, author of IQ: A smart history of a failed idea, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Books of our Time.The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu.Full length versions of MSLAW podcasts are available by free subscription from iTunes or as direct downloads.