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Moore, Gordon E., 1929-. Oral history interview with Gordon E. Moore and Jay T. Last 2006 January 20

Title: Oral history interview with Gordon E. Moore and Jay T. Last 2006 January 20

This oral history with Gordon T. Moore and Jay T. Last focuses on the years 1956 and 1957, during which time Moore and Last worked at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory and Fairchild Semiconductor was founded. This transcript is about the life of ideas and the people who brought those ideas to fruition; Moore and Last reflect on their experiences during these years while flipping through an old notebook that documented various aspects of the meetings they had over an eighteen month period. In order to fully understand this oral history, the reader must consult the Supplement to Gordon E. Moore and Jay T. Last Oral History, oral history number 0327S, which is also part of the Chemical Heritage Foundation's collection.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : 2 v. (132, 145 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743094306 View

Rostky, George. History of the Integrated Circuit : interviews on 30 cassette tapes, c. 1986.

Title: History of the Integrated Circuit : interviews on 30 cassette tapes, c. 1986.

The most important individuals featured in the article were Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. The Supreme Court judged them to be co-inventors of the integrated circuit. Kilby was at Texas Instruments, Noyce was at Fairchild, a company he had cofounded. He was later a cofounder with Gordon Moore of Intel.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (30 tapes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754866709 View

Jones, R. Victor. Oral history interview with R. Victor Jones 2006 April 18

Title: Oral history interview with R. Victor Jones 2006 April 18

R. Victor Jones matriculated into the University of California, Berkeley and entered the lab of Walter Knight, where he worked in the new field of nuclear magnetic resonance. He continued into graduate school at Berkeley and worked in Carson Jeffries's lab, where his thesis work dealt with electron transport in a molecular afterglow. As he was finishing his thesis work, William Shockley began an aggressive recruitment of Jones until he finally accepted Shockley's offer of a job at the new Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Shockley believed semiconductors were the wave of the future, and he espoused diffused-base technology. Jones was put to work on the four-layer diode. From the outset, lab work was compartmentalized and Shockley frequently changed the goals of the lab. Uncomfortable in the high-stress atmosphere of the lab and wanting to work with his primary interest, electromagnetic theory, Jones decided after only two years to look for work in the academy, ultimately acceptaing a position at Harvard University. He spent almost fifty years there, teaching electronics.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (38 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743095413 View

Rostky, George. The 30th anniversary of the integrated circuit; thirty who made a difference : a history of the integrated circuit, 1988.

Title: The 30th anniversary of the integrated circuit; thirty who made a difference : a history of the integrated circuit, 1988.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (98 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754866789 View

Sporck, Charles E. Interviews with pioneers of the semiconductor industry for the book SPINOFF : cassette tapes, ca. 1995-2000.

Title: Interviews with pioneers of the semiconductor industry for the book SPINOFF : cassette tapes, ca. 1995-2000.

ArchivalResource: 43 cassette tapes (1 print box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863738 View

Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1977 : booklet of reproduced historical documents, ca. 1978.

Title: Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1977 : booklet of reproduced historical documents, ca. 1978.

Includes important letters, telegrams, photographs, newsclippings, etc.

ArchivalResource: 17 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553389 View

Stanford Silicon Valley Archives. The legacy of Shockley Semiconductor [DVD videorecording], 2005.

Title: The legacy of Shockley Semiconductor [DVD videorecording], 2005.

Videorecording of the roundtable discussion held on September 27, 2005, moderated by Leslie Berlin, featuring Gordon Moore, Jay Last, Julius Blank, all co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and James F. Gibbons, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. Included are the introductory remarks by Prof. David Kennedy and Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections in the Stanford University Libraries.

ArchivalResource: 1 video disc.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864138 View

Fairchild Semiconductor 50th anniversary : videorecordings, 2007.

Title: Fairchild Semiconductor 50th anniversary : videorecordings, 2007.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette: betacam.1 videocassette: DVDcam.1 video disc.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701289764 View

Last, Jay T. Oral history interview with Jay T. Last 2004 June 21

Title: Oral history interview with Jay T. Last 2004 June 21

Jay T. Last begins the interview with a description of his family background and youth during the Great Depression and World War II. He reviews his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and his graduate work in the von Hippel lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he completed doctoral research on the structure of barium titanate under an IBM fellowship. He was later invited to join Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. He soon departed as one of the "Traitorous Eight" to form Fairchild Semiconductor, where he focused on the etching process for the mesa transistor. During this time, Last formed a close friendship with Jean A. Hoerni and began collecting African art. Last then supervised the creation of the integrated circuit. In 1961, he left Fairchild Semiconductor to join Teledyne to create more elaborate circuits. Teledyne mass-produced complex circuits for military, private corporations, and internal use. Last reviews the business climate of Silicon Valley that supported numerous spin-offs and discusses the dynamics of the American and international semiconductor industries. He then recounts his private investments, including that in Intel Corporation, and relates Gordon E. Moore"s contributions to Intel Corporation. Last concludes with his personal involvement with the Archeological Conservancy, his African art collection, and publishing.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings ; cassettesTranscript : (132 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/186432949 View