Rob Walker (1935-2016) and later Rob Blair interview key figures of the microelectronics industry. Also included is an interview with Rob Walker himself, made by Susan Ayers-Walker in 1998. Interviewees include John Derringer, Elliot Sopkin, Floyd Kvamme, Mike Markkula, Steve Zelencik, T. J. Rogers, Bill Davidow, Aart de Geus, and many others. Written transcripts are available for the interviews with Marcian (Ted) Hoff, Federico Faggin, C. Lester Hogan, Regis McKenna, and Gordon E. Moore.

Contains photographic materials, including prints, contact sheets, negatives and slides, relating to Menuez's documentation of major Silicon Valley companies, as well as to fine art book projects, photo essays and photo shoots for advertising campaigns, annual reports and other commissioned work.

This collection has been arranged into two series: Series 1. MUD1 (Multi-User Dungeon) Archival Materials and Series 2. MUD1 Source Code. First folder contains Bartle's own notes about the content of the collection. Series 1 contains MUD1 archival material. Notes written by Richard A. Bartle are inserted in the first (unnumbered) folder in the manuscript box. These notes provide information about the contents contained in folders that he numbered 1-32, and arranged in chronological order. Folders 1-32 are dispersed between a manuscript box and flat storage box due to variations in document size. The manuscript box contains original handwritten design notes, maps, and photocopies of files. The flat box contains lineprinter papers, which consists of a MACRO-10 assembler list output for the final version of MUD version 2, maps, an extent log of a MUD session, along with other oversize documents. Series 2, originally a zip file, contained the compressed library of source code files for the online virtual world, MUD1. This digital files are available online through the Stanford University Libraries.

Lectures by computer professionals and professors from Stanford and other universities presented to the Computer Systems Laboratory Seminar, the Department of Computer Science Colloquium, and other special events.

Collection contains correspondence, project files, patents, business plans, notebooks and computer files.

The collection documents the research phase of Berlin's biography of Robert Noyce, entitled THE MAN BEHIND THE MICROCHIP. Included are interviews and transcripts including one with Gordon Moore.

Collection focuses on Berg's work with recombinant DNA and includes professional correspondence, 1959-1985; research lab notebooks for the years 1953-1986 which document his work with protein synthesis in bacterial cells and tumor viruses; records concerning the National Academy of Sciences conference on recombinant DNA research guidelines; records from his Stanford positions including administrative files, grant files, departmental records, student files, lectures, and symposia; reprints and illustrations; and videotapes and audiotapes.

Papers regarding Ginzton's activities at Stanford University, with Varian Associates, and on national committees and local organizations. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, journals, publications, technical reports, manufacturing reports, oral history materials, and photographs. Also includes correspondence, publications, biographical material and manuscripts of Russell, Sigurd and Dorothy Varian.

The Russell and Sigurd Varian papers span almost a hundred years of creative and independent thinking, from early manuscripts of poetry by their Irish father, John O. Varian, to the creation and growth of Varian Associates. In addition to original research notebooks and correspondence regarding the klystron, the collection includes materials on numerous other inventions and ideas from Russell's work for Philo Farnsworth and Humble Oil as well as the brothers' years at Stanford and at Varian Associates. Unpublished short stories by Sigurd reveal his sense of humor as well as the adventure and danger of his career as a pilot in Mexico and Central America. Includes volumes I-IV of Varian Associates Magazine, 1956-71.

Professional and personal papers relating to Professor Shockley's controversial interests in environment and genetic influences on intelligence; research on transistors and electronics; and science education. Also includes extensive family materials including diaries and correspondence.