Academic research files and recorded interviews created by Christophe Lécuyer, a published historian of Silicon Valley high tech industries.

Christophe Lécuyer (born 1963) is an economic analyst, author, and professor. He has written books on Fairchild Semiconductor and the history of Silicon Valley. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he earned his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2002. He taught at Stanford and the University of Virginia and was a principal economic analyst at the University of California. Lécuyer published extensively on the history of electronics, instrumentation, and high tech manufacturing. He is the author of Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006) and (with David C. Brock) of Inventing the Digital World: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor from Startup to Microchip (MIT Press, 2010). Since 2013, he has been professor of the history of technology and chair of the undergraduate minor in business management at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France.

28 Linear Feet (2 record cartons; 61 manuscript boxes; 1 extra tall manuscript box; 3 flat boxes). 1 manuscript box of computer media is closed until processed.

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