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7 unusual facts about Palo Alto


Campbell Fighting Camels baseball

However, success was short lived as the Camels lost 7-0 to Stanford University and 8-7 to Southern Illinois University at the Palo Alto Regional.

Dave Feldman

Dave Feldman is a 1983 graduate of Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California, where he played two years of varsity basketball and was a teammate of future NFL football player and coach Jim Harbaugh.

Dick Wellstood

Richard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood (born November 25, 1927, Greenwich, Connecticut — died July 24, 1987, Palo Alto, California) was an American jazz pianist.

John Duryea

Then assigned in 1950, as Catholic chaplain, first at San José State University and in 1961, Stanford University, where he became immensely popular and influential as the pastor of St. Ann's Chapel, Palo Alto.

Julius Blank

" Blank spoke of "those years with 'a kind of electricity in the air, where everything was happening fast and all at once.'" In 2011, he lived in a retirement center across the street from the old Fairchild headquarters at 844 Charleston Rd. in Palo Alto, where he used to have his office and now a California Historical Landmark.

Naglee Park and Ride Lot

San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD) offers commuter subscription service to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station and job centers in Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Livermore on several lines.

Peninsula Women's Chorus

The Peninsula Women's Chorus is an award-winning female choir based at Palo Alto, California.


Ann Clare Brokaw

Ann Clare Brokaw (April 25, 1924 – January 11, 1944, Palo Alto, Calif.) was the only child of Clare Boothe Brokaw (later Clare Boothe Luce) and George Tuttle Brokaw.

Birge Clark

Birge Malcolm Clark (April 16, 1893 – April 30, 1989) was an American architect, called “Palo Alto's best-loved architect” by the Palo Alto Weekly; he worked largely in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

Carter L. Stevenson

He fought with distinction in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and participated in several other fights before returning to the United States at posts in Mississippi, Indian Territory, and Texas.

Charles Henry Gilbert

However, in 1890, U.S. Senator Leland Stanford (1824‒1893) and his wife Jane Eliza Lathrop Stanford (1828‒1905) chose Jordan to be the founding president of a new university to be established in Palo Alto, California, in memory of their deceased son, Leland Stanford, Jr. (1868‒1884).

Chris Jogis

Hendrik Christopher "Chris" Jogis (in Estonian Chris Jõgis; born 24 May 1965 in Palo Alto, California) is a retired male badminton player from the United States.

Clemens C. J. Roothaan

Since his retirement, in 1988, he has worked for the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where his primary contribution has been in the development of the mathematical coprocessor routines for the Itanium chip.

Clifford Chance

In 2002, Clifford Chance launched in California, setting up a branch with nearly 50 attorneys from the disbanding dot-com firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Diego and San Francisco.

David Werner

David Werner (Born 1934) is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor (Where There is No Doctor), co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, Department of International Health.

Denodo

Denodo Technologies is a software company with headquarters located in Palo Alto, CA (USA) and main offices in A Coruña (Spain), Madrid (Spain) and London (UK).

Eric Scott Woods

He was born in Palo Alto, California, and maintained a degree in economics and finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

Federal Telegraph Company

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 1909 by Cyril Frank Elwell, it would eventually merge in August 1927 with the Mackay Companies.

Flik

In radio astronomy, the unit flik was coined by a group at Lockheed in Palo Alto, California as a substitute for the SI derived unit W cm−2 sr−1 µm−1, or watts divided by centimeters squared, steradians, and micrometers.

Flipboard

Flipboard is produced by Flipboard, Inc., a United States–based software company founded in 2010 by Mike McCue and Evan Doll and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Huntsman Gay Global Capital

Huntsman Gay Global Capital which was originally named Huntsman Gay Capital Partners, has offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, West Palm Beach, Florida, Foxborough, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California.

James G. Mitchell

He was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where he managed the development of the first ARM RISC chip and was President of the Acorn Research Centre in Palo Alto, California.

Jeremy Fogel

On October 29, 2009, Fogel awarded the Palo Alto, California-based social networking website Facebook $711 million in damages in a civil suit that Facebook filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, whom Facebook accused of using the website to send spam to and steal personal information from website users.

Jim Fruchterman

Arkenstone’s business assets and name were sold to the for-profit firm Freedom Scientific in April 2000, and the nonprofit changed its name to Benetech, which is now based in Palo Alto, California.

Joan Wheeler

Joan Wheeler Ankrum (January 8, 1913 Palo Alto, California – December 20, 2001 Los Angeles, California) was an American film actress of the 1930s and founder of the Ankrum Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Jussi V. Koivisto

Internationally Jussi V. Koivisto has held Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar assignments at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, U.S.), Tokyo University of International Studies (Japan), University of Klagenfurt (Austria), Canada China Institute, University of Alberta, and Korea Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (Korea).

Leopold Engleitner

They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

Miriam Patchen

Then they relocated to the West Coast, living in San Francisco and later, towards the end of Patchen's life, they settled into a cottage house in Palo Alto where Patchen died.

MirrorLink

A researcher from Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, U.S.A – Jörg Brakensiek, took results from the noBounds! project, invented by a researcher - Bernd Steinke from the Nokia Research Center in Bochum, Germany, and applied them to the automotive domain.

Mount Mende

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, a Principal Investigator in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station and South Pole Station from 1973 onwards.

Olga Volchkova

That same year, she moved to downtown Palo Alto, California, where she found herself in the heart of the first Dotcom boom.

Paul Saffo

Since 2006, he has been on an extended sabbatical from Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California where he worked for the last two decades.

Paul Vixie

In 1995, he cofounded the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), and after Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) bought it in 1999 served as the chief technology officer to MFN / AboveNet and later as the president of PAIX.

Peter G. Gyarmati

Later he worked with networking reliability, security, in Vienna, and Stuttgart and also in Budapest for BSB, TCC and worked in Stanford University, Palo Alto, U.S. as a guest professor, and as emeritus returned to Szentendre, where he lives now.

Pottsville Area School District

The district includes the City of Pottsville and five additional municipalities: the boroughs of Mechanicsville, Mount Carbon, Port Carbon, Palo Alto, and Norwegian Township.

Preetish Nijhawan

Prior to this, Nijhawan worked with NeoEdge Networks in Palo Alto, California as Vice President of Strategic Alliances where he led the development of the company's most important partnerships and distribution relationships.

Rio del Mar, California

Rio del Mar neighbors Seacliff State Beach, which features the remains of the cement ship, the SS Palo Alto.

Robert Metcalfe

The board of directors chose Eric Benhamou to run the networking company Metcalfe had founded in his Palo Alto apartment in 1979.

SCORE! Mountain

Score Mountain (commonly SCORE! Mountain Challenge), conceived of in 1993 by Ingrid Stabb, a loyalty marketing professional in Palo Alto, California, is utilized to visualize and track a goal based on goal-setting theory.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki

The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto.

UniDisc

Based in Palo Alto, California and founded in 1989, the first product published was the Guinness Disc of Records, an interactive version of the Guinness Book of Records that included hundreds of video and audio files, including Steve Woodmore the world's fastest talker and the longest words spoken in a dozen languages.

Walter B. LaBerge

In 1957, LaBerge moved to Philco as Director of Engineering at its Western Development Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.

Wilbur Bestwick

He died July 10, 1972, at Stanford University Hospital and according to official records, was interred at the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California.

William Targ

He was survived by his wife, Roslyn, of Manhattan, a literary agent; a son, Russell, of Palo Alto, California; two grandchildren, one of whom was Elisabeth Targ, and four great-grandchildren.


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Anne Balsamo

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) argues that Balsamo "portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us...Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time."

Automsoft

2009 Automsoft showcase their green innovations in clean-tech in Palo Alto California and also achieve OPC Unified Architecture compliance.

Carlmont High School

With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time.

Cubberley

Ellwood P. Cubberley High School, one of three public high schools in Palo Alto California

David L. Hawk

, Peter Corning, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, Palo Alto, CA.

Digital DNA

Former Palo Alto mayor Leland Levy and real estate developer Roxy Rapp proposed a $500,000 revitalization of Lytton plaza.

East Bay Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of the paper's previous owner Knight Ridder in early 2006, the Palo Alto Daily News group, including the East Bay Daily News, was bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

East Palo Alto, California

Significant gentrification occurred in East Palo Alto from around 2000, with the construction of a large shopping center named Ravenswood 101 (including a Home Depot, a Best Buy, and an IKEA store) and several upscale housing communities (intended for high-earning Silicon Valley workers).

Between 1958 and 1976 East Palo Alto had its own high school (Ravenswood High School).

A few notable Bay Area Hip-Hop artists are of East Palo Alto origin, including Sean T, Hefna Gwap, Da Banga, S.I.C, Mac & AK, The Youngen, Chunk, Buff & Law (Block Boys), Bigg Rigg, Dem Hoodstarz, AD Kapone, and Mac-10.

EFTP

John Shoch, EFTP: A PUP-based Ether File Transfer Protocol (Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, June 1976)

Emma Willits

Willits' house in Palo Alto, constructed in 1926-27, was designed by architect Lionel H. Pries.

Family Process

The journal was established in 1962 by Nathan Ackerman, Donald deAvila Jackson, and Jay Haley as a mutual project of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto and the Family Institute, later to be named the Ackerman Institute for the Family, in New York City.

Inmac

From its initial Palo Alto, California location, Inmac expanded internationally to England (1980), Germany (1981), Sweden (1982), France (1982)the Netherlands (1984), Canada (1985), Italy (1988), and Japan (1990).

ISTP

International School of the Peninsula, an independent co-ed nursery-8th grade Chinese & French language immersion day school located in Palo Alto, California

Jamaica Estates, Queens

Lennie Tristano, the blind bebop pianist and teacher, lived at 86-67 Palo Alto Street, Holliswood.

Jennifer Mnookin

She grew up in Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, and attended Harvard College, where she was an editor for The Harvard Crimson.

Loren Acton

Loren Wilber Acton (born March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.

Lucretia Van Horn

She contacted an old Berkeley colleague, Marjorie Eaton who lived in Palo Alto on the Juana Briones Ranch, owned by Ms. Eaton’s mother.

Marjorie Eaton

In 1925, Eaton's stepmother, Edith Cox Eaton purchased the historic Palo Alto house of Juana Briones de Miranda and ran it as an art colony of sorts: artist Lucretia Van Horn and sculptor Louise Nevelson spent significant periods of time there, as did Marjorie.

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Olga Volchkova

She became artistic director for Workspot, a now defunct start-up and contracting house near University Avenue in Palo Alto.

Palo Alto University

Palo Alto University's Ph.D. program has been accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1988.

Peninsula Women's Chorus

In 1966, after a decade of involvement with local musical ensembles, Marjorie Rawlins of Palo Alto founded the American Association of University Women Midpeninsula Chorus, with 17 members.

Personality systematics

Family systems therapy received an important boost in the mid-1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues – Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Paul Watzlawick and others – at Palo Alto in the US, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication.

Peter Burwell Starke

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

Ralph Rambo

He was born in San Jose, California on May 16, 1894 and died in Palo Alto, California on May 19, 1990.

Rebecca Dines

She has performed numerous times for Palo Alto-based Theatreworks, as well as Kansas City, Berkeley, San Jose, and South Coast Repertory theatres, Magic and B Street theatres, and the Laguna Playhouse, among others.

Saffron Technology

Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, former executive at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.

SCORE! Educational Centers

Educational Center in Palo Alto, California, in November 1992, and hired the company's first two Directors, Kai Drekmeier and Ingrid Stabb, who helped Tripp further develop the SCORE! concept and company culture throughout the startup years.

Universal Time-Sharing System

CP-6 was a command line oriented system, no GUI interface (as GUIs had only just been invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)).