For the hardware hackers ( second generation ) and the game hackers ( third generation ) the geographic area was centered in Silicon Valley where the Homebrew Computer Club and the People's Computer Company helped hackers network, collaborate, and share their work.

Levy also identified the " hardware hackers " ( the " second generation ", mostly centered in Silicon Valley ) and the " game hackers " ( or the " third generation ").

The second movement of the novel begins when the characters are offered jobs in Silicon Valley working on a project for Michael, who has by then left Redmond.

During the Silicon Graphics Inc .' s second bankruptcy phase, it was renamed to Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc .( GPHI ) in June 2009.

The Center for Research and Development ( CPqD ) set up by Telebras, a state holding for the telecommunications industry in Brazil, which had grown enormously under the military regime umbrella, was the second boost to Campinas Silicon Valley.

Silicon is the second most abundant element in earth ’ s crust.

Silicon ( Si ) is the second most common element in the Earth's crust ( oxygen is the most common ).

The second, The Nudist on the Late Shift, was a nonfiction portrayal of those who had followed the modern day gold rush to Silicon Valley.

It expanded in 2007 with a second office in Downtown L. A. and San Diego, and launched its Silicon Valley presence later that year.

Sana-Kan's physical body was destroyed twice in the line of duty ; First in order to destroy the Toha Heavy Industries ' Central AI and for the second time while protecting Cibo from Silicon Creatures.

Its first incarnation took place on April 30, 2007 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus and focused on The New Software Industry-Forces at Play, Business in Motion, while the second conference took place on April 22, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and focused on The Mobile Future-Technology Revolutionizing our Lives.

KGO-TV, as an ABC owned and operated station, cleared the entire ABC schedule, so this often gave San Jose and Silicon Valley Area residents a second choice for viewing preempted ABC programming.

Silicon is the Earth's second most abundant chemical element, and today high-purity silicon crystals are mass-produced.

In his essay From Satori to Silicon Valley ( published 1986 ), cultural historian Theodore Roszak made the point that the Apple Computer emerged from within the West Coast counterculture and the need to produce print-outs, letter labels, and databases.

He is best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser ; as co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation ; and as co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

* ICOM Mechanical Inc., a Silicon Valley-based HVAC, mechanical, and general contracting firm

Mayor Gonzales launched into a speech extolling the virtues of California's famed " Silicon Valley " in general and San Jose in particular.

As Justin Miller took on the role of President of Comcast Silicon Valley in addition to CEO of Plaxo, in March 2011 Plaxo's head of product management Preston Smalley was named general manager.

The South Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States and is roughly synonymous with Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley, and Santa Clara County ( in general ).

Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States.

Stanford University is located on an campus on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley ( Silicon Valley ) approximately southeast of San Francisco and approximately northwest of San Jose.

At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California ( part of Silicon Valley ), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

pSOS ( Portable Software On Silicon ) is a real time operating system ( RTOS ), created in about 1982 by Alfred Chao, and developed / marketed for the first part of its life by his company Software Components Group ( SCG ).

On September 23, 2011, the company formally became part of Texas Instruments as the " Silicon Valley " division.

By some estimates, the Silicon Valley area, of which all the aforementioned are a part, is one of the wealthiest places in the world.

Campbell () is a city in Santa Clara County, California, a suburb of San Jose, and part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As part of the Silicon Valley, high-tech companies such as Maxim Integrated Products, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Palm, Inc., AMD, NetApp, Spansion, Yahoo !, AppliedMicro and Ariba are headquartered there.

LookSmart went public in August 1999, as part of the widespread technology boom in Silicon Valley.

Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Apple Inc., Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Oracle Corporation, was part of a wave of successful startup companies in California's Silicon Valley during the early and mid-1980s.

The first product of Flipside Communications Inc. ( which was eventually renamed Red Herring Communications ), the magazine was quickly popular with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and the Valley community of lawyers, accountants, bankers and the like who were part of the technology entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Silicon Valley is roughly coterminous with the Santa Clara Valley, although since the former is as much a state of mind as an actual location, people often refer to parts of the San Francisco Peninsula as being part of Silicon Valley as well.

Similarly, Palo Alto, while in Santa Clara County and considered part of Silicon Valley, is on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Along with the arrival and growth of Apple Computer, the presence of De Anza College contributed significantly to the growth of Cupertino from a small town to an industrial city and an integral part of Silicon Valley.

De Anza College is part of Silicon Valley's Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which also administers Foothill College in nearby Los Altos Hills, California.

In recent decades it has restructured into a high technology site in the fields of semiconductor manufacture and solar technology, part of Silicon Saxony.

The 2004 Silicon Valley Bowl game itself was a disaster from the start, in part because of a severe thunderstorm that caused many local fans to stay away from the game.

A similar project was completed for the Silicon Valley Regional Interoperability Project ( SVRIP ), and is part of the Dept.

The district, which includes part of Silicon Valley, includes the cities of Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto.

* Silicon Valley, in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States

Recently, the Russian Government has put forward plans to create a Caucasian Silicon Valley, at a cost of 32 billion rubles ($ 1. 1 billion ) as part of on-going efforts to generate opportunities in the troubled Russian region.

Some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs were known to wear jeans as part of the business casual look, while in other companies blue jeans are not considered suitable for managers or even business casual.