Leslie Berlin

Historian of Silicon Valley

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Media

Commentary

NPR’s All Things Considered
NPR’s Marketplace
NPR’s Morning Edition
The Atlantic
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
El Pais (Spanish)
Le Monde on Jay Last (French)
Le Monde on Corporate Benefits (French)
NPR on the First Web Page
New York Times
Financial Times
NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday
San Jose Mercury News
WGBH: Innovation Hub
CSPAN-2 BookTV (ID# 187717)
Voice of America
Inside Digital Media
TechNation (KQED, San Francisco)

Articles for General Readers

I Needed to Save My Mother’s Memories. I Hacked Her Phone, New York Times
Sophie L.: A Life in Five Moves, American Scholar
Why Silicon Valley Continues To Rule, Wired
Tech Legend Bob Taylor Invented “Almost Everything,” Wired
Time-Lapse Reality, an essay on biography for Powells.com
Tracing Silicon Valley’s Roots, San Francisco Chronicle
How the Valley Start-Up was Invented, San Jose Mercury News 
Robert Noyce and the Tunnel Diode + Finding Noyce’s Notebook, IEEE Spectrum
Go Off and Do Something Wonderful, Core 
Why Noyce Matters, Computing Unplugged
The Microchip Turns 50: Lessons for Innovators
Apple Through The Years, San Francisco Chronicle
When Steve Jobs Was a “Joker,” Bloomberg Echoes

New York Times Columns (Prototype–Sunday Business Section)
Prototype – Kicking Reality Up a Notch, New York Times
Prototype – Location, Location: It Still Pays to Be Near, New York Times
Prototype – A Web That Speaks Your Language, New York Times
Prototype – Software That Monitors Children’s Virtual Playgrounds, New York Times
Prototype – Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not, New York Times
Prototype – Running a Business After Doing Time, New York Times
Prototype – Cell Phones as Credit Cards? Americans Must Wait, New York Times
Prototype – The Comics Are Feeling the Pain of Print, New York Times
Prototype – Lessons of Survival, From the Dot-Com Attic, New York Times
Prototype – If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention? New York Times
Prototype – We’ll Fill This Space, But First a Nap, New York Times

Academic Articles
Draper Gaither and Anderson: First Venture Capital Firm in Silicon Valley, Making the American Century: Studies in 20th Century Culture, Politics, and Economy
Robert Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1968, Business History Review

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