West Menlo Park, California - West Menlo Park, California West Menlo Park, also known as University Heights, is an unincorporated town located in San Mateo County, California, adjacent to Menlo Park, Atherton, Sharon Heights and Stanford University. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,629. The town consists of suburban housing and a small business district along Alameda de las Pulgas. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 km˛ (0.5 mi˛). 1.3 km˛ (0.5 mi˛) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 3,629 people, 1,420 households, and 955 families residing in the town. The population density is 2,802.3/km˛ (7,299.8/mi˛). There are 1,451 housing units.
Menlo Park, California - Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city located in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' West. Menlo Park has 30,785 inhabitants, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. Geography Menlo Park is located at 37°27'15" North, 122°10'43" West (37.454188, -122.178579)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 45.1 km˛ (17.4 mi˛). 26.2 km˛ (10.1 mi˛) of it is land and 18.9 km˛ (7.3 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 41.88% water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 30,785 people, 12,387 households, and 7,122 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,173.4/km˛ (3,040.1/mi˛). There are 12,714 housing units at.
Menlo Park - Menlo Park Menlo Park is the name of some places in the United States of America: Menlo Park, California Menlo Park, New Jersey (See also Menlo.) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Atherton, California - Atherton, California Atherton is a town located in San Mateo County, California. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 7,194. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Demographics 3 History 4 External Links Geography Atherton is located at 37°27'31" North, 122°12'0" West (37.458615, -122.200099)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 12.8 km˛ (4.9 mi˛). 12.7 km˛ (4.9 mi˛) of it is land and 0.1 km˛ (0.04 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 0.61% water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 7,194 people, 2,413 households, and 1,983 families residing in the town. The population density is 566.9/km˛ (1,467.6/mi˛). There are 2,505 housing units at an average density of 197.4/km˛.
San Mateo County, California - San Mateo County, California San Mateo County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula just south of San Francisco and north of Santa Clara County. San Francisco International Airport is located at the northern end of the county, and Silicon Valley begins at the southern end. As of 2000 the population was 707,161. The county seat is Redwood City. History San Mateo County was formed from parts of San Francisco County in 1856. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,919 km˛ (741 mi˛). 1,163 km˛ (449 mi˛) of it is land and 756 km˛ (292 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 39.40% water. Demographics As of the.
Woodside, California - Woodside, California Woodside (pop. 5352) is a small town in San Mateo County, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula. History and Culture Woodside was first settled as a lumber town in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, Woodside was home to country estates. The town was incorporated in 1956 to prevent urbanization, and it still retains a rural residential character, though it is a short commute to Silicon Valley. Today Woodside is among the wealthiest small towns in the United States. Affordable housing is unavailable; vacant lots, were any to be found, would sell for over a million dollars. Several famous rich people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore’s Law; Neil Young, rock.
List of cities in California - List of cities in California List of cities in California, arranged in alphabetical order. Adelanto Agoura Hills Alameda Albany Alhambra Alturas Amador City American Canyon Anaheim Anderson Angels Camp Antioch Apple Valley Arcadia Arcata Arroyo Grande Artesia Arvin Atascadero Atherton Atwater Auburn Avalon Avenal Azusa Bakersfield Baldwin Park Banning Barstow Beaumont Bell Bell Gardens Bellflower Belmont Belvedere Benicia Berkeley Beverly Hills Big Bear Lake Biggs Bishop Blue Lake Blythe Bonny Doon Bradbury Brawley Brea Brentwood Bridgeport Brisbane Buellton Buena Park Burbank Burlingame Calabasas Calexico California City Calimesa Calipatria Calistoga Camarillo Campbell Canby Canyon Lake Capitola Carlsbad Carmel-by-the-Sea Carpinteria Carson Cathedral City Ceres Cerritos Chico Chino Chino Hills Chowchilla Chula Vista Citrus Heights City of Commerce City of Industry Claremont Clayton Clearlake Cloverdale Clovis Coachella Coalinga Colfax Colma Colton.
Ken Kesey - Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto, California to enroll in the creative writing program at Stanford University. At Stanford in 1959, he volunteered to take part in a study at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the effects of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290. He wrote many detailed descriptions of his experience with these drugs, both during the study and in his own experimentation. It was at this time he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which caught the attention of many, including "beat" poet.
Vince Guaraldi - music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. He was born in San Francisco, California. In his first serious gig, he had to fill in for Art Tatum. His first recording came in 1953 when he played on the Cal Tjader Trio release Vibratharpe. By 1955, Guaraldi had put together his own trio with Eddie Duran and Dean Reilly. He died of a sudden heart attack at age 47 between sets at Butterfield's in Menlo Park, California. External Links http://www.vinceguaraldi.com/ (requires Macromedia Flash for all content) http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/guaraldi.html.
Henry Cowell - one of the most influential of early 20th century American composers. Cowell was born in Menlo Park, California into a rural family. He was encouraged to study music by his parents, and played the violin from an early age. He began to compose in his teens, producing the piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun, which calls for the pianist to use his forearm to play many notes at once. This is one of the first uses of the tone cluster in music, and he continued to use it liberally in his later works. Despite his experimental leanings, he received no formal musical education (and little education of any kind) until he attended the University of California, Berkeley. There he studied under Charles Seeger who encouraged him to study more traditional musical.
History of the Internet - some standardization and control is necessary for anything to function. Many people wanted to put their ideas into the standards for communication between the computers that made up this network, so a system was devised for putting forward ideas. One would write one's ideas in a paper called a "Request for Comments" (RFC for short), and let everyone else read it. People commented on and improved those ideas in new RFCs. (With its basis as an educational research project, much of the documentation was written by students or others who played significant roles in developing the network but did not have official responsibility for defining standards. This is the reason for the very low-key name of "Request for Comments" rather than something like "Declaration of Official Standard".) The first RFC (RFC1).
Gene Amdahl - IBM 704, the IBM 709, and then the Stretch project, the basis for the IBM 7030. He left IBM in 1956 but returned in 1960. On his return he worked on the System/360 architecture and became an IBM fellow (1965) and head of the ACS Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. He left IBM again in 1970, after his ideas for computer development were rejected, and set up Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California with aid from Fujitsu. Competing with IBM in the mainframe market the company manufactured plug compatible mainframes, shipping its first machine in 1975 - the Amdahl 470 V6, a cheap and faster replacement for the System 360/165. Amdahl left his company in 1980 to set up Trilogy Systems. With over $200 million in funds Trilogy was aimed at designing.
Dumbarton Bridge - is the southernmost of the bridges that span the San Francisco Bay in California. It is also the shortest. Its eastern terminus is in Newark in the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and its western terminus is in Menlo Park. The current bridge is the second bridge in this location and was opened in 1984. The earlier bridge was opened in January 1927. Currently there is a toll charge of $22 for cars travelling east to west..
Bacterium - into two groups, gram positive and gram negative. The name gram comes from Hans Christian Gram, who developed the technique of gram staining. The cell wall usually includes a second membrane surrounding the cell, but in a few groups this is absent, and instead the cell wall is composed mostly of glycoproteins. A few bacteria without the second membrane, however, lack the glycoproteins and show up as gram-negative despite belonging to gram-positive groups. Some bacterial cells have capsules outside their cell walls, which are made up of polysaccharides, and form a covering or envelope around the cell. These capsules help the bacteria to remain dormant during dry seasons and to store food and dispose of waste substances. Many bacteria move from one place to another with the help of thin, hair-like.
Xerox PARC - research division of the Xerox Corporation. It is based in Palo Alto, California, USA, and was founded in 1970. PARC's founding director, George Pake, was an outstanding physicist in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance. Dr. Pake had been serving as provost of Washington University in 1969 when he was courted by Jack Goldman, Chief Scientist at Xerox. If Jack Goldman was chiefly responsible for Xerox founding, and generously funding, a research center, then George Pake was chiefly responsible for siting PARC in Palo Alto -- 3,000 miles away from Xerox headquarters. Xerox PARC was the birthplace of many foundations of modern computing, including many aspects of the Graphical user interface (GUI), the mouse **, the WYSIWYG text editor, the laser printer, the desktop computer, the Smalltalk programming language, Interpress (a.
San Francisco Bay Area - rainy winters. Inland areas, especially those separated from the ocean by hills or mountains, have hotter summers and colder overnight temperatures during the winter. The population distribution of the Bay Area is generally subdivided into several smaller subregions. The region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known as the North Bay. This area consists of Marin County and extends northward into the Napa and Sonoma Valley wine regions. With some exceptions, this region is relatively affluent, and is generally the least urbanized part of the Bay Area, with many areas of undeveloped park and farm land. It is the only section of the Bay Area that is not served by a commuter rail transit service. The eastern side of the bay, dominated by the city of Oakland but also including.
Sand Hill Road - Road Sand Hill Road is a road in Menlo Park, California, notable for the concentration of venture capital companies there. Its significance in that area of business in the United States may be compared to that of Wall Street in the stock market. The location is advantageous in part for its easy access to Stanford University and Silicon Valley. For several years during the Dotcom boom of the late 1990s, commercial real-estate on Sand Hill Road was more expensive than anywhere else in the US. Some of the areas Sand Hill Road venture capitalists invest in: Internet companies Computer software Communications Computer services Medical Health Semiconductors Electronics Computer hardware Biotechnology Industrial Energy Sand Hill Road also serves as home to the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
Silicon Valley - Hoefler in 1971. It encompasses the Santa Clara Valley and southern half of the San Francisco Peninsula. It reaches approximately from Menlo Park, California down to San Jose, centered roughly on Sunnyvale. It was named "Silicon" for the high concentration of semiconductor and computer related industry in the area, and "Valley" for the Santa Clara Valley. The term may also be applied to surrounding areas on both sides of the bay into which many of these industries have expanded. For many years in the 1970s and 1980s it was also incorrectly called "Silicone Valley", mostly by journalists, before the name became commonplace in American culture. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Notable Companies 3 Universities 4 Cities 5 Wannabes 6 External Links History The location of the computer market in.
Stanford Linear Accelerator - University for the U.S. Department of Energy. Founded in 1962, it is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. It serves over 3,000 visiting researchers yearly. SLAC operates electron accelerators for high-energy physics and synchrotron radiation research. SLAC's meeting facilities provided a venue for the homebrew computer club and other pioneers of the 1980s home computer revolution, and later SLAC hosted the first webpage in the U.S. External Links Stanford Linear Accelerator.
RateMyProfessors.com - is a website, founded by John Swapceinski (1999 -- Menlo Park, California), which allows college/university students to "grade" the professors of US and Canadian institutions. The site contains more than a million ratings, regarding ~250,000 professors. The site also runs RateMyTeachers.com, which rates high school teachers. This latter site contains more than 2.5 million ratings, regarding ~500,000 teachers. External Links RateMyProfessors.com (official) RateMyTeachers.com (official).
