Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley through the lens of Randy's 50 years--as the child of graphics legend, Dick Shoup; an intern at Intel; aspiring diplomat; engineering leader; and father to the next generation of Shoup engineers.
Who is Randy Shoup and what is his connection to Silicon Valley?
Carnegie Institute of Technology. Yeah. Everybody abbreviated to Carnegie Tech.
Yep. And you, but you come out as your father is, is he coming out to work for Berkeley Computer Company? Is that, do I have that?
Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. So both my parents grew up in Western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh and And they met at what was then Carnegie Tech and now Carnegie Mellon University. My dad earned his undergrad in EE in 65 and then got his PhD in computer science in 1970.
Computer science in 1970? That is a very early computer science department.
Yeah. I believe that it might be the first computer science PhD program in the U.S., Yeah, which might mean in the world. Yeah. So his his his application to join the Ph.D. program was his his professor, Gordon Bell, saying, hey, Dick, I'm starting up a computer computer science lab. Would you like to join it? And my dad saying, yes. So, you know, that was pretty cool.
We're elaborating a little bit on who Gordon Bell was. I think Gordon Bell has passed away. Right. That was. Yeah.
I mean, he's another generation.
Yeah. Yeah. But describe Gordon Bell a little bit because, yeah, Gordon Bell just passed away last year, May of 2024. But so a pioneer of computing, for sure. And just kind of amazing to think of. I mean, the discipline is still so young, you know, in so many regards that you have. So he goes to work for and then picks up his family and moves to the West Coast to go to Berkeley Computer Company.
Yeah. So I was a year and a half. So I was born in Pittsburgh, like I said, Shadyside Hospital right outside Carnegie. And then we moved out when I was one and a half, 1970. So he's got, you know, freshly minted Ph.D. We'll talk a little bit about what it's in or I'll just mention his Ph.D. proposed FPGAs.
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