Take the case of Singularity University, a non-profit educational institution located at Moffitt Field in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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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