Christophe Lécuyer is a Principal Economic Analyst in the Office of the President of the University of California. He earned his PhD in History from Stanford University. A leading historian of high technology, he is the author of "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970" and the forthcoming (with David C. Brock) "Inventing the Digital World: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor from Startup to Microchip."