| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Monday, May 2 |
6:15am
meet at Gerstacker Arch 6:30am Hiram College van leaves promptly Continental 555 CLE 9:00am EDT --> SFO 11:14am PDT flight time = 5 hours 14 minutes arrive at SFO at 11:14am PDT (2:14pm EDT) no meals on plane; consider bringing a snack or purchasing one in CLE 12:30pm-1:00pm lunch near airport en route to hotel |
approximately 1:30pm
arrive at hotel 2:00-3:00pm supply run to nearby grocery store for snacks | dinner at Kaita Restaurant in San Jose's Japantown |
| Tuesday, May 3 |
9:30am
van leaves hotel for Intel Museum 10:00am-11:00am Intel Museum (informal orientation emphasizing the chip fabrication process, followed by time on your own to explore the museum and gift shop) 11:30am-12:00m Union Square Cafes at Stanford's Tresidder Union lunch on your own 12:00pm-1:15pm Stanford University (campus map) (informal walking tour of the campus starts, including the view from the top of the Hoover Tower, and the lobby exhibits in the Packard Electrical Engineering Building and the Gates Information Science Building) |
1:15pm-2:15pm Stanford CS Department (vist with Professor Monica Lam, including a discussion of her research on social networks and mobile devices, followed by the remaining exhibits in the Gates Information Science Building) 2:15pm-3:30pm Stanford University (campus map) (informal walking tour of the campus continues, including the Main Quad and the inside of the Memorial Church) 3:30pm-4:00pm Stanford Nanofabrication Facility in the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems (orientation overview by Process Manager Mary Tang and look at SNF fab facilities) 4:00pm-4:45pm Stanford University (campus map) (informal walking tour of the campus continues, including a visit to the bookstore) 5:00pm-5:30pm (driving tour of the Stanford campus and Xerox PARC) |
7:15pm-7:45pm Fry's Electronics (the San Jose Mayan store) dinner at La Victoria Tacquiera in downtown San Jose |
| Wednesday, May 4 |
8:15am <---- yuk!
van leaves hotel for UC Berkeley 10:00am-12:15pm UC Berkeley (campus map) (student-led 90 minute walking tour of the campus, including the Sather Gate, Dwinelle Hall, Wheeler Hall, California Hall, Valley Life Sciences (with Oscar), Free Speech Movement Cafe, Doe Memorial Library, Sather Tower, South Hall, and Sproul Plaza, followed by a visit to the top of Sather Tower to hear the campanile played at noon) lunch on your own along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley |
2:30pm-3:30pm CS Division, UCB EECS Department (greeting by professor Kurt Keutzer, and tour of the Parallel Computing Lab and Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems (RAD) Laboratory, followed by discussion with graduate student Ekaterina Gonina about her research on speech recognition and life as a graduate student in EECS at Berkeley) | dinner at Kaita Restaurant in San Jose's Japantown |
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Thursday, May 5 |
10:00am <---- yay!
van leaves hotel for Google 10:30am-12:30pm (tour of the Googleplex campus by Dr. Bennet Yee, interleaved with a discussion of the Google culture and his research on security and Chrome, ending with a visit to the Google store) 12:30pm-1:00pm lunch TBA |
1:30pm-4:00pm PayPal (visit with Susan McConnell, staffing manager, and discussion of the PayPal culture and changes in that culture over the last decade; tour of the PayPal campus, including the War Room, by Dennis Natochy, manager; and discussion of the shift to "merchant services" and software careers at PayPal by Mrugan Bhorkar, manager, and Zhong Wang, software developer) |
4:15pm
van leaves hotel for Santa Cruz bring your camera and jacket! 4:15pm-5:15pm trip to Santa Cruz (1-hour drive through the mountains to Santa Cruz) 5:15pm-6:15pm Natural Bridges State Beach (see the natural bridge, walk on the beach, and stick your feet in the Pacific Ocean) 6:15pm-6:30pm drive along Cliff Drive (see the ocean cliffs, and watch body surfers at Lighthouse State Beach) 6:30pm-8:30pm free time at Santa Cruz Wharf (watch the sea lions and explore on your own) dinner on your own |
| Friday, May 6 |
9:40am <---- yay!
van leaves hotel for Apple 10:00am-10:30am Apple Company Store (drive past the Apple campus and visit the original Apple Employee store at Apple's headquarters -- "the only place in the world that sells Apple logo t-shirts, caps an accessories") 11:00am-11:15am driving tour of Palo Alto (see the original garage in Palo Alto where Hewlett-Packard started) 11:15am-1:30pm free time in Palo Alto (explore on your own, visit the Apple Store, Borders, etc.) lunch on your own in Palo Alto |
1:45pm-4:30pm Computer History Museum (guided 1 hour tour by Harry Sello of pre-electronic calculating devices and early computers, followed by time to explore the museum on your own, including the supercomputers, personal computers, robots, and electronic games, and to visit the gift shop) |
5:00pm-6:30pm
visit with Jim and Tom Waschura, at Jim's house (Hiram alumni who founded SyntheSys Research Inc., developers of the BERTScope bit error rate testers, now part of Tektronix, who discuss the changes in Silicon Valley over the years, and their start at Hiram College and their subsequent careers) 7:00pm-9:00pm Olive Garden dinner as guests of Jim and Tom Waschura |
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Saturday, May 7 |
9:00am
van leaves hotel for San Francisco (with a brief stop at the Days Inn near SFO to check in and drop off the luggage) bring your camera and jacket! |
10:45-12:45pm
morning driving tour of San Francisco (following the eastern half of the 49-Mile Scenic Drive (map) with some minor additions -- AT&T Park, Embarcadero, Financial District, Market Street, Civic Center, Union Square, Chinatown, Nob Hill, North Beach, Coit Tower (brief stop), Lombard Street, Fisherman's Wharf, Marina District, and the Presidio) 12:45pm-2:45pm driving tour around Golden Gate Bridge (stop at South Vista Point to see the bridge and drive across the bridge, then return to Fisherman's Wharf to park) lunch on your own en route |
2:45pm-8:00pm
free afternoon / evening in San Francisco (explore on your own, wander around Fisherman's Wharf, ride the cable cars, visit Chinatown, etc.) dinner on your own SF Muni fares and passes include $2.00 fare for bus (transfer/fare receipt is good for 90 minutes), $5.00 fare for cable car (one ride), and $13.00 All-Day Passport for unlimited bus and cable car rides (can be bought in advance (e.g. at airport) or on/near cable cars) 8:30pm van leaves San Francisco to return to hotel |
| Sunday, May 8 |
9:45am
van leaves hotel for airport |
Continental 254
SFO 12:20pm PDT --> CLE 7:47pm EDT flight time = 4 hours 27 minutes no meals on plane; consider bringing a snack or purchasing one in SFO |
8:30pm (after plane arrives)
Hiram College van leaves from Cleveland airport arrive at Hiram around 9:30pm EDT (6:30pm PDT) |
| Hotels |
Monday through Friday nights:
Executive Inn Airport San Jose 1310 N First Street San Jose, CA 95112 US Phone: 800-877-1331 Phone: 408-453-1100 |
Saturday night:
Days Inn San Francisco Airport West 1550 El Camino Real San Bruno, CA 94066 US Phone: 650-616-9600 |