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Biography revisits Fred Terman’s roles in engineering, Stanford, Silicon Valley

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From left, David Packard, William Hewlett and Fred Terman greet one another during the dedication of the Electronics Research Laboratory's Hewlett-Packard Wing in 1952. Terman, who retired in 1965, built "steeples of excellence" on campus and forged ties with industry. "I have generally expounded a non-Stanford-centric view of the formation of Silicon Valley," Gordon Moore, co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, told more than 100 attendees at an Oct. 25 book launch party in the Faculty Club. "On the other hand, there is a group that has endowed Terman with having been the father of Silicon Valley. In trying to reconcile these two different views, it'd be a bit of a problem. Professor Gillmor has done a very good job in illuminating what actually happened here and defining the role that Professor Terman played." Terman's best-known role is that of inspirational mentor to HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard. Terman, who kept track of his former students, gave He

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