Classic example of academic research funded by the military.

> In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, originally on a mission to find two nuclear Cold War submarines.

This is referencing the Titanic, for anyone confused.

see:

the secret history of silicon valley, by steve blank. I think there is both an article and a video.

thanks a TON for this recommendation it was really eye-opening listening to his presentation and the detailed history, as well as the cat-and-mouse game escapades. Very well put-together presentation and yeah, really makes me reflect on the specialness of Silicon Valley and those relationships.

most welcome.

i found it interesting too.

I had an uncle, an electrical engineer, who went there for higher studies, to stanford, got his PhD (typical common route for many talented Indians, at least up to MS, doctorate is less common), was mentioned in who's who in electrical engineering, worked there, married an American woman, and became a US citizen, and a hardware entrepreneur, in Sunnyvale, California, but I didn't hear about this from him, i just read it on the net.

cheers.