Leslie Berlin

Author and noted IT historian, Berlin has served as Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She wrote *The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley*, a biography of Intel co-founder and microchip co-inventor Robert Noyce. Berlin also contributed the "Prototype" column on innovation to the Sunday Business section of the New York Times from September 2008 to July 2009.

She has served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and has also been a director of the IT History Society. Berlin received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford in 2001 and also holds a B.A. from Yale.

Berlin's first book, *The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley*, is a biography of inventor-entrepreneur Robert Noyce.