Source: THE SPOON, 7/14/21


Anyone familiar with the story of Silicon Valley knows just how fundamental the university system was in creating the center of the technology universe. Colleges and universities have long served as launch pads for the world’s biggest tech companies, from the education of integrated circuit founding fathers William Shockely and Robert Noyce (at Caltech and MIT, respectively) to the creation of Yahoo! and Google by graduate students at Stanford, to Mark Zuckerberg hacking away at Hot or Not in his dorm at Harvard.

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