Discover who is known as the Father of Silicon Valley. Learn how Frederick Terman and William Shockley shaped the world’s ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Dermot Mulroney, seen at the 2023 premiere of "Anyone But You" in New York City, stars in "Long Shadows." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (UPI) --Actor Dermot Mulroney and ...

As a consultant during World War II, he estimated that an American invasion of Japan would produce such high casualties that US leaders instead decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

I: Moira: May and Billy -- 'I've got dark eyes. I can frighten people' -- The lightness of being -- II: Hubris: war and the transistor -- 'Of a highly explosive character' -- 'I hope you have better ...

Originally Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the company was founded by William Shockley in 1955 in Mountain View, California, eventually considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Shockley was a ...