• World War II
• Military mobilization
• FMC Corporation
• Stanford goes to war
• National Defense Research Council (NDRC) contracts to Stanford
• Still not in the top 20 of recipents in 1945
• Frederick Terman leaves Stanford to run Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory (RRL)
• Vannevar Bush, Terman's graduate school adviser, appoints him
• Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)
• Internment of the Japanese
• Stanford cooperates in the internment of its Japanese students and faculty
• The Cold War, 1945-1969
• The Transformation of Stanford
• Navy contract creates Stanford Statistics Department
• The Stanford Industrial Park emerges (c. 1950)
• Varian Associates the first resident
• The Stanford Research Institute Founded (c. 1950)
• "Steeple Building" under Frederick Terman
• Stanford Electronics Research Laboratory (SERL) founded (1955)
• From Aeronautics to Aerospace
• Stanford Aeronautics Department and NACA
• Moffet Field becomes NASA Ames Research Center
• Lockheed Missiles and Space relocates to the Santa Clara Valley (1956)
• Research Laboratory located in the Stanford Industrial Park
• Corporate Center located in Sunnyvale, adjacent to Moffet Field,/NASA Ames Research Center
• Successfully develops and launches Polaris submarine-based missile (1960)
• By 1965, the largest employer in the Santa Clara Valley
• Loral Corporation (The Making of Silicon Valley, pp. 32-33)
• Communication satellites
• Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA)
• Supported Douglas Englebart's work at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
• Created the ARPANet, the forerunner of the Internet
• First internet transmission: From University of California, Los Angeles to SRI, October 1969
• Computers
• IBM establishes computer research facility in San Jose (1952) (The Making of Silicon Valley, pp. 18-19, 23)
• Magnetic disk storage invented here
• Microelectronics
• Terman, Stanford, and the founding of Hewlett-Packard Corporation
• William Shockley and Shockley Semiconductor
• The "Traitorous Eight" and the birth of Fairchild Semiconductor
• Fairchild: Mother of Silicon Valley
• Arthur Rock: The Pioneer of Silicon Valley Venture Capital
• Intel Corporation
• Gordon Moore
• Robert Noyce
• Andrew Grove
• Advanced Micro Devices
• Jerry Sanders

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