Terman一开始只致力于Research的,但没过多久,他就嗅觉到硅谷这块地,对实际应用
的需求会在未来爆炸性增长的,我多么希望他老人家永远活下去啊。。。。这么有
vision的人才,上帝就该开出一张免死通知单。。。对人类进步将是缩短几十年的历程
。。。
During World War II, Terman directed a staff of more than 850 at the Radio
Research Laboratory at Harvard University. This organization was the source
of Allied jammers to block enemy radar, tunable receivers to detect radar
signals, and aluminum strips (“chaff”) to produce spurious reflections on
enemy radar receivers. These countermeasures significantly reduced the
effectiveness of radar-directed anti-aircraft fire.
After the war Terman returned to Stanford and was appointed dean of the
School of Engineering. In 1945 he was influential in the creation of a
microwave research laboratory at the Stanford School of Physical Sciences.[
10] In 1951 he spearheaded the creation of Stanford Industrial Park (now
Stanford Research Park), whereby the University leased portions of its land
to high-tech firms.[11] Companies such as Varian Associates, Hewlett-Packard
, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and Lockheed Corporation moved into
Stanford Industrial Park and made the mid-Peninsula area into a hotbed of
innovation which eventually became known as Silicon Valley.[12]