Пало Альто

Пало Альто (Испан: пало: "бұтақ" және альто: "ұзын") Калифорния штатында орналасқан қала. Стэнфорд Университеті және Силикон алқабы  осы қалада  орналасқан.

Тарихы
1769 жылы Гаспар де Портола осы жерде алғаш орнығады.


Географиясы
Топографиясы

Қоршаған орта
Климаты

Жергілікті басқару
Саясат

Демографиясы
2010
2000

Тұрғын үй мәселесі

Экономикасы


 Amazon.com's A9.com
 AOL Inc.
 Aricent
 Better Place
 CPI International
 Disney World
 Facebook
 Hewlett-Packard
 IDEO
 Mashable
 Mopay
 Nanosys
 Ning
 PAIX
 Palantir Technologies
 Palo Alto Medical Foundation
 Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
 Pinterest
 Playdom
 Socialtext
 Space Systems/Loral
 Tapulous
 Tesla Motors
 Tibco Software
 Varian Medical Systems
 VMware
 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
 Xerox
 MetricStream

Ерекшеленген мекемелер тізімі :
 Accenture (Бұынғы солтүстік америкалық HQ. Қазіргі Ирландиялық HQ)
 BMW (Технология)
 CNF Inc.
 Dell
 Disneyland
 EPRI
 Genencor (Пало Альтодағы)
 Groupon
 Lockheed Martin
 Slam Content
 Nokia Research Center
 Onlive
 Posedge Inc
 Rave Wireless (Пало Альто)
 SAP AG (North American Labs)
 Schering-Plough Biopharma
 Skype
 The Wall Street Journal
 Wso2

Басты жұмыс иелері

City банктің мәліметі бойынша 2010 жылғы ең үздік жұмыс берушілер:

 # Жұмыс берушілер # Жұмысшалар саны1Стэнфорд Университеті10,1012Stanford University Medical Center/Hospital5,5693Lucile Packard Children's Hospital3,5494Veteran's Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System3,5005Space Systems/Loral3,2006Hewlett-Packard2,0017Palo Alto Medical Foundation2,0008Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati1,5009Palo Alto Unified School District1,33610City of Palo Alto1,100

Коммуналды қызметтер
 Мектеп жүйесі 
Көпшілік мектептер

 Жекеменшік мектептер 
 Bowman International School – a K-8 school founded in 1995 which emphasizes learning about different cultures.
 Castilleja School – an all-girls’ college preparatory school for grades 6-12.
 Challenge Summer School - Morrissey/Compton – Challenge is a five-week summer program for elementary students with mild to moderate learning or language disabilities. The program focuses on maintenance of academic skills, instruction in new strategies to succeed in school, and the continuing development of self-esteem.
 Challenger School – a K-8 School with extreme emphasis on academics
 Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School – a K-8 Jewish day school; school's name changed from Mid-Peninsula Jewish Community Day School (MPJCDS)Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School 
 The Girls' Middle School – an independent, all-girls day school for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth gradeThe Girls' Middle School
 International School of the Peninsula – a Nursery-8 bilingual immersion school with two Palo Alto campuses. Offers two Nursery - 5 programs: Chinese-English and French-English, and an international middle school. Established in 1979.International School of the Peninsula
 Kehillah Jewish High School – a new preparatory high school with both secular and Jewish studies
 Keys School – a co-ed, independent K-8 school focused on learning for life
 Kitty Petty Institute – a preschool for disabled children
 Meira Academy - A Orthodox Jewish all-girls high school opening up the fall of 2011.
 Palo Alto Montessori School – an accredited preschool which has been educating 2- to 5-year-olds since 1977.
 Pinewood School – located on Fremont Road in Los Altos Hills; most of the students are from Los Altos Hills/Los Altos area
 St Elizabeth Seton Extended – a Catholic school
 Palo Alto Chinese School - oldest Chinese school in Bay Area
 Stratford School – a K-5 school focused on all round developmentStratford School

Кітапханалар
Пало Альто кітапханасы бес бөлімшеден тұрады, жалпы саны 265,000 кітаптар сақталады.Palo Alto City Library  Кітапхананың мақсаты білім, ақпарат және тынығу қызметтерін көрсеті.

Медиа
The Palo Alto Daily Post publishes six days a week. Palo Alto Daily News, a unit of the San Jose Mercury News, publishes 5 days a week. Palo Alto Weekly is published Fridays. Palo Alto Times, a daily newspaper served Palo Alto and neighboring cities beginning in 1894.  In 1979 it became the Peninsula Times Tribune.  The newspaper ceased publication in 1993.THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Paper Closes In California, The New York Times, наурыз 15, 1993.

KDOW 1220 AM began broadcasting in 1949 as KIBE; it later became KDFC, simulcasting classical KDFC-FM. As KDOW it broadcasts a business news format. The transmitter is in East Palo Alto near the western approach to Dumbarton Bridge with power of 5,000 watts daytime and 145 watts nighttime.

The Midpeninsula Community Media Center provides Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv channels 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30.Midpeninsula Community Media Center

Among other programs, Palo Alto Institute  runs a unique film festival, the Palo Alto International Film Festival , that focuses on the ways in which new technologies influence and are influenced by artistic revolution in media.

The movie "Palo Alto, CA" was filmed in the town and many landmarks can be seen in the background but the plot could be centered in any smaller town or city.IMDB entry, IMDB entry.

Транспорт
Жолдары

Әуе

Метро
Қала пойых қызметі Сан Франциско және Сан Хосе қалаларымен қосады.

Ғимараттар
 Arastradero Preserve
 Arizona Cactus Garden
 Cantor Arts Center
 Digital DNA, egg-shaped sculpture downtown
 Elizabeth Gamble GardenElizabeth Gamble Garden
 Frenchman's tower

 Former Community House in MacArthur Park at the intersection of University Avenue and El Camino Real; designed by Julia Morgan for the YWCA but first used as a social centre in Camp Fremont, Menlo Park during World War I; now a restaurant
 Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
 Lou Henry Hoover Girl Scout HouseLou Henry Hoover Girl Scout House
 Matadero Creek
 Mental Research Institute (MRI)
 Packard's garage
 Palo Alto Art Center
 Palo Alto Airport, off Embarcadero East, is surrounded by numerous flying schools, and is a convenient bay area *
 Palo Alto Foothills Park
 Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve
 Palo Alto University
Printers Inc. Bookstore, now defunct, was a landmark independent bookstore on California Ave. and was referenced in Vikram Seth's novel, The Golden Gate. It closed in 2001.
 Stanford Shopping Center
 Stanford University
 Stanford University Arboretum
 University Avenue (Downtown Palo Alto)
 Palo Alto Varsity Theater
 Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford http://www.stanford.edu/~mjpeters/png/
 Stanford Terrace Inn http://www.stanfordterraceinn.com  formerly Tiki Inn Motel http://www.critiki.com/cgi-bin/location.cgi?loc_id=136 
 Stanford Theatre
 Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish

Ерекше адамдар
әртістер
William Ackerman, acoustic guitarist. He founded and ran for many years the influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.
Joan Baez, folk singer
Lindsey Buckingham, member of Fleetwood Mac
The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band (early incarnations of the band were based in Palo Alto)
The Donnas
Yehuda Feldman
Dave Franco, actor
James Franco, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, author
Teri Hatcher, born in Palo Alto, actress
Amy Irving, actress*
Stephan Jenkins, rock musician (Third Eye Blind)
Ugly Kid Joe
Ollie Johnston, Academy Award–winning Disney animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia)
Kingston Trio
Grace Slick, singer
Serhiy Timoshenko,http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тимошенко_Сергій Ukrainian famous architect and politician Anti-communist (member of Central Council of Ukraine), brother of Ukrainian scientist Stephen Timoshenko
Alessandra Torresani, actress
Shemar Moore, actor
Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedance Clearwater Revival

Бизнесмендер
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!
Steve Jobs, deceased co-founder of Apple Inc.; lived in Palo Alto 1980-2011; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
Jawed Karim, co-founder of Youtube.
Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google
William Hewlett, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
Mark Hurd, past chairman, chief executive officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard.
David Packard, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google.
Romesh Wadhwani, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook.
Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook, CEO of Myspace, COO of Zynga.
Elon Musk, CEO of TESLA Motors, Space X

Саясатшылар
Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and political pundit
Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States of America
Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S Ambassador of China
Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State
Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary Sibnarayan Ray, In Freedom's Quest: Life of M.N. Roy (Vol. 1: 1887-1922). Calcutta: Minerva Associates, 1998; pp. 46-47.
Ron Wyden, US Senator

Жазушылар
Erle Stanley Gardner, detective fiction author, creator of Perry Mason
Robert S. Gerleman, New York Times Adult Best Selling Author
Tad Williams, New York Times Adult Best Selling Author

Ғалымдар
Pamela Melroy, astronaut, second woman to command a space shuttle mission
Perley Ason Ross, physicist who worked on essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays
Robert Spinrad (1932–2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.Markoff, John. Robert Spinrad, a Pioneer in Computing, Dies at 77", The New York Times, September 6, 2009. Accessed September 9, 2009.
William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist

Жазба

Арғы оқылым
 John Jenks, David Crimp, C. Michael Hogan et al., Engineering and Environmental Evaluations of Discharge to the Coast Casey Canal and Charleston Slough, prepared by Kennedy Jenks Engineers and Earth Metrics Inc. (1976)
 Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory, Santa Clara County Historical Heritage Commission, published by Santa Clara County, San Jose, Ca., маусым 1979
 A description of high-tech life in Palo Alto around 1995 is found in the novel by Douglas Coupland, Microserfs.
Coleman, Charles M., P. G. and E. of California: The Centennial Story of Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1852–1952, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952).
Hanson, Warren D., San Francisco Water and Power: A History of the Municipal Water Department and Hetch Hetchy System, (San Francisco: San Francisco Public Utilities Communications Group, 2002).
Map: PG&E Backbone Gas Transmission System, (San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Co., undated).
Map: Water Conveyance, Treatment, and Distribution System, (San Jose: Santa Clara Valley Water District, 1978).
Earthquake Planning Scenario Special Publication #61, (Sacramento, California: State of California, Division of Mines and Geology, 1981).
$117,730,000 Bond Offering: Transmission Agency of Northern California, (Sacramento, California: Transmission Agency of Northern California, 1992).

Сыртқы сілттемелер
Palo Alto neighborhood map
City of Palo Alto official website
Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
Palo Alto History.Com 
Palo Alto Historical Association
Palo Alto local portal

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