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James Williams

President of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and Professor Emeritus of History, De Anza College, Cupertino, California.

Dr. Williams will be a lecturer in the “Silicon Valley 101” orientation course for the conference participants (July 11, 15.00-17.00). He will discuss the early electrical and radio industries in the San Francisco Bay Area as the foundation for emergence of Silicon Valley in the years following World War II. In his book Energy and the Making of California (University of Akron, 1997), he investigated the rise of the electric power industry in California and subsequently connected this history to the evolution of Silicon Valley in his essay, “Fredrick Terman and the Rise of Silicon Valley” (1990, 1998).