Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford designed Klystrons producing 2½ Megawatts were manufactured by Varian and Litton would power the radar in the BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System) built at the height of the cold war.) Terman had sent faculty and graduate students to the University of Illinois in 1953 to learn transistor physics.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

At Boeing we had learned aircraft designers needed to calculate the airflow and turbulence around wings and engines. If they didn’t like what they saw (say the wing had more drag than expected), they could change the design and rerun the simulation.

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