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Silicon Valley Tours
The future competitiveness of the country depends upon continuing innovations in the development and use of advanced technologies.
Intel Museum
For over 40 years, Intel has been a world leader in the innovation and production of silicon chips.
The enhanced storage capacity has contributed to smaller, faster, efficient machines and gadgets that have changed the way we work and play.
Exhibits:
- From sand circuits: Integrated circuits.
- How chips are made: Chip design & manufacturing.
- Microprocessors: Complex, tiniest machines.
- Memory Technology: Chip information storage.
- Intel fab: Water fabrications facility.
The Intel museum is 10,000 square feet of fun, and stimulating interactive learning for children and adults. Try on a 'Bunny suit." Numerous interactive exhibits and multimedia presentations chronicle the history and technological transformations, silicon architecture and manufacturing, as well as the integration of the silicon chip into everyday devices.
Stanford University
The institution was established in 1891 by Leland Stanford as a tribute to his son. In addition, the university has always been in the forefront of scientific and technological advancement producing the most innovative entrepreneurs in the world. Leading the global market are Google, Intel, HP, Oracle, Youtube, and Yahoo to name a few.
- Hoover Tower
- Main Quad
- Memorial Chapel
- Rodin Garden Sculptures
The Herbert Hoover Tower and Pavilion contains an array of memorabilia commemorating the life and accomplishments of the 31st president of United States who was a Stanford alumnus.
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Tech Museum
The Tech offers a unique comprehensive Silicon Valley experience with hands on cutting-edge interactive exhibits. They include:
- Alternative energy
- Genetics
- Virtual design
- Earth sciences
- Microchips
The Tech Museum of Innovation is an educational resource established to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives, and to inspire the young to become innovators in the technologies of the future.
The Tech Museum's cutting - edge 250 hand - on exhibits showcase technology functions, and the way it is changing the way we learn, work, play and live. Scientific and technological innovations have enhanced our store and application of knowledge in general. This has in turn led to cheaper, better ways to meet human needs increase productivity and global wealth.
Some of the most popular permanent exhibits include; Green by Design where one experiences the design of renewable resources, and ways to incorporate innovative energy conservation concepts into daily lives.
The Spirit of American Innovation exhibit honors the National Medal of Technology awards recipients for accomplishment in technological innovations. Steve Jobs of Apple and David Packard of HP, IBM are a few of the more recent innovators.
Life Tech explores the integration of technology into medicine and biotechnology. Net planet focus on space explorations.
Computer History Museum
The museum is dedicated to exploring the impact of the computer revolution from pre-computing to supercomputing. The fascinating illustrations showcase the most significant collection of computer - related artifacts from thirteenth - century abacus to browsers and microprocessors.
Exhibits:
| Babbage engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1849 |
| HP original computer . . . . . . . . . . . |
1939 |
| Point - contact transistor . . . . . . . . |
1947 |
| Apple multi-network . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1977 |
| IBM PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1981 |
| Yahoo/Netscape browsers . . . . . . |
1994 |
Please contact us to make reservations
Tel: 415-668-1864
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