Much of the technology has been developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
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Silicon Valley is near Stanford University, for example, and similar high-tech clusters are gathered around MIT near Boston in the United States and around Cambridge University in Britain.
Far from Silicon Valley some North Carolina State University academics started a company in 1976 called the Statistical Analysis Software Institute.
The idea stems from when Raptopoulos led a research group including the company's three other co-founders at the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.
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He sees Stanford University and its relationship with Silicon Valley as a model to aspire to, and unabashedly proclaims that, if a university is to thrive, it must be a research-based, elite institution.
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James Liang returned home to China in 1997 after six years in the U.S. as a university student and Silicon Valley techie.
Mr. Chakra and his eight colleagues were lodged in a guest house in Timisoara, known as Romania's Silicon Valley because of the local technical university.
Apple Computer billionaire Steve Jobs was an indifferent student at Reed College for a semester before dropping out, and his Silicon Valley compatriot Larry Ellison left the University of Illinois after his second year.
Manuel and Rice, the former provost of Stanford University, are based in Silicon Valley, while Gates is in Seattle and Hadley is in Washington.
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Stanford University, with its links in Silicon Valley, has proved that universities can play a vital role in promoting entrepreneurship.
What a come-down for a cornerstone stalwart of Silicon Valley, which put the dynamic concept of Stanford University as feeding ground for technology greatness on the altar of a business culture that stood at the apex of American industry in the 1970s.
A. program at Northwestern University in 1999 and went calling on Silicon Valley venture capitalists, pitching a multimedia "mind salon" that would churn out books, products, TV programming and Internet content on healthful and successful living.
"Oil Creek Valley" demonstrated the American model for venture capital and innovation long, long before the first pioneer venture capitalists showed up in the almond groves around Stanford University that would in due course become Silicon Valley.
Such charges were sweeping Silicon Valley at the time after professor Erik Lie of the University of Iowa released a paper in 2005 suggesting that a number of companies may have changed dates on stock options to richly compensate employees (pick a date with the lowest stock price).
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The nano science facility that has the sleek, modern look of Silicon Valley compared to the concrete-and-steel of the University at Albany main campus is expanding again.
Therein lies the origin of university science departments, regional agglomerations such as Silicon Valley and Route 128, and mega-laboratories at leading high-technology firms including Merck, Microsoft and Monsanto.
The 27-year-old studied business and communications at the University of Texas in Austin before moving to Silicon Valley, where she worked in product and marketing at Apple and Google.
Having just finished a masters in software engineering at Oxford Brooks University, he was looking for a route to Silicon Valley, maybe even becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg.
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The university fostered Hewlett-Packard, whose creation paved the way for Silicon Valley.
We drive out of the city and over rugged mountain passes to Pune, a university town that Haque says one day will rival Palo Alto in Silicon Valley.
That Orange County mortgage broker (who used to be a pizza delivery guy) can take a class online from the University of Phoenix (APOL) and become a computer engineer in Silicon Valley.
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If Silicon Valley encompasses the greater Santa Clara Valley, then surely its animating energy is found at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Take the case of Singularity University, a non-profit educational institution located at Moffitt Field in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Laura is President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation, and she sits on multiple boards, including the Sand Hill Foundation, the Arrillaga Foundation, Stanford University School of Education, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and, formerly, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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