Where is the birthplace of Silicon Valley? Event aims to put the question to rest

Jacques Beaudouin's long quest to commemorate the birthplace of Silicon Valley, William Shockley's Bell Lab location in Mountain View, Calif., is finally being realized as he poses with a silicon wafer next to a sculpture of a silicon molecule at the Village of San Antonio Center, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Just where Silicon Valley was born has long been open to debate. 

Is its birthplace the still-extant garage where Hewlett-Packard's founders developed their first tech product while living at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto in the late 1930's? Or is at Stanford University where Fred Terman, a Stanford dean, set up a microwave research lab at the campus and fostered the creation of Stanford Research Park after World War II.