标题: Silicon Valley's Garage Tradition [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-10-2012 08:33 标题: Silicon Valley's Garage Tradition Silicon Valley chic | Back to the Garage; Innovation in the old style. Economist, July 7, 2012. http://www.economist.com/node/21558304
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(a) Palo Alto, California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California
(Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "tall"; It is named after a redwood tree called El Palo Alto)
(b) For 367, Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, see HP Garage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage
([now] a private museum; The HP garage is not open for public tours, but the property can be viewed from the sidewalk and driveway)
Both cities above are within Santa Clara County, California.
(d) Adobe Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems
(headquarted in San Jose; founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC; The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the houses of both of the company's founders)
(e) Willow Garage, Inc www.willowgarage.com
(address: 68 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA; known for the PR2 robot, short for Personal Robot 2)
(f) ZERO1 Garage, located at San Jose www.zero1.org/programs/garage