The IEEE SV Tech History committee fulfilled its mandate by holding four technical meetings in 2014.  It was a close call as three of those meetings occured in the last three months of the year.

Our committee’s charter is to have at least four technical meetings per year that will educate, inform and raise the level of awareness of technology history indigenous to greater silicon valley.  In addition, we are open and receptive to holding joint meetings with other IEEE Societies, groups, committees as well as other tech non profit organizations.   Our website complements our meetings and provides information on IEEE Milestones as well as upcoming tech history meetings in silicon valley.

Note that we are not a musuem.  We don’t collect anything and we don’t do oral histories.  Those are both done by the Computer History Museum and the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives (see Oct 2014 and Dec 2014 meetings below).

All of our meetings since inception are listed below, in reverse chronological order:

Dec 2: Perspective of Stanford Archives & Process & Methodology for SV Tech History Research

Panelists: ​Leslie Berlin, Historian of Silicon Valley & author of biography of Bob Noyce​  & Henry Lowood, Curator at Stanford University; Manager-Silicon Genesis Project​​

Moderator: Alan J Weissberger, IEEE Sr Life Member

The link to the Silicon Genesis oral histories is here. In addition, a very small fraction of their holdings is listed here.

Invitation: tech artifacts/data-books/notebooks related to SV tech history may be donated to the Stanford SV Archives. Contact: lowood@stanford.edu

Video of this outstanding event is here.

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Nov 5:  Early History of Silicon Valley​ (4 time periods covered)

Panelists:  Ted Hoff, PhD (x-Intel) & Norm Pond (“Tube Guys”)​

Moderator: Paul Wesling, IEEE SF Bay Area Council​

->97 attendees were treated to a spectacular program!​

Video and snippets/segments are here

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 Oct 9:  History & Origins of Computer History Museum (CHM), Current Status & Future Directions

Panelists:  Len Shustek, CHM Chairman & John Hollar, CHM CEO/President​

Moderator:  Alan J Weissberger, IEEE Sr Life Member

• Joe Skorupa (Gartner) – various “Route 128″ MA networking companies
• Tom Slykhouse (SurveyMonkey)- FDDI advocate of the period
• Dan Pitt – (Open Networking Foundation) Token Ring advocate of the period

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