Leslie Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She also writes the "Prototype" column on innovation for The New York Times. Her newest book is Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age, a narrative of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years, laying the foundation for today’s technology-driven world. She is also the author of The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, a biography of the Fairchild and Intel co-founder and integrated circuit co-inventor. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Stanford.