Many of the key start-ups whose swift development supplied the kinetic energy behind the emergence of Silicon Valley were born in the cradle of research laboratories at Stanford’s School of Engineering-such as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems. (Interview conducted by Yasuo Naito): The timing of my employment at Stanford-1977-2017–coincided with the emergence of Silicon Valley as the world’s hub of global entrepreneurship and innovation. He took his first job at Stanford University in 1977, where he has remained as a member of the faculty (now Emeritus) over the past 40+ years.
He graduated from Princeton University, received his Master’s Degree from Harvard, and earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. From Santa Anita, Okimoto and his family were taken to Poston Arizona, where they were forced to live until the Pacific War ended in 1945.Īfter the War, Okimoto moved to Pasadena, less than 10 miles from his birthplace, Santa Anita. They were herded into shabby detention barracks at a makeshift relocation center in Southern California while ten wartime internment camps were being built in remote and desolate areas scattered around the North American continent.ĭaniel Okimoto was born on the sprawling compounds of the Santa Anita Race Track, which had been converted into a relocation facility for nearly 20,000 Japanese immigrants and Nikkei Americans. Like others of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, the outbreak of the Pacific War caused the Okimoto family to be uprooted from their home, job, and community.
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