Fred Terman, the Father of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley, located on the San Francisco, California, peninsula, radiates outward from Stanford University. It is contained by the San Francisco Bayon the east, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Coast Range to the southeast. At the turn of the century, when fruit orchards predominated, the area was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. Today, semiconductor chips, made of silicon, are the principal product of the local high-tech industries. It has been said that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of one great man. Inasmuch as Silicon Valley is an institution, Fred Terman was such a man.