The epicentre of the nascent Valley
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Stanford's classified military electronics laboratory, and by Jonathan Hare's account the absolute center of the emerging Silicon Valley in the late 1950s. Hewlett and Packard were regular visitors.
Milton Dixon Hare was recruited there by Fred Terman in 1955 as Professor of Electrical Engineering, working on classified projects until his death in 1960.
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Radar, chaff, and the Stanford lab at the center of Silicon Valley
Open →who recruited himThe father of Silicon Valley — and Hare's grandfather's mentor
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