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M. KENNETH OSHMAN
Pages 232-237

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... KENNETH OSHMAN, a Silicon Valley icon, died on August 6, 2011, at the age of 71 from complications of lung cancer. He was an original Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose personal vision and passion created not one but two industryleading companies that developed revolutionary technologies.
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From page 234...
... Ken's paper was published just four months ahead of comparable work at Moscow State University. Over the years parametric fluorescence has become the near-standard light source for experiments with entangled photons, Bell inequalities, and quantum information.
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... Needless to say, many people, including some of ROLM's venture capital backers, believed the management team had gone mad. When the ROLM CBX (computerized branch exchange)
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... He served as president of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Associates, and the board of directors of the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County. He was an American Electronics Association director for five years, serving as its chairman in 1977; a director and chairman of the Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group; and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Planning Committee and the Committee to Advise the President on High-Temperature Superconductivity.
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... He endowed engineering chairs at both Stanford and Rice and made the lead gift to establish the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice, a state-of-the-art design facility that enables students to realize their required design projects through cross-disciplinary collaboration and cross-technology training. His family foundation was the lead donor in a campaign to build Palo Alto's new Jewish Community Center, which opened in 2009 and was named in the family's honor.
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