# Fred Terman **Entity class:** Person **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition Frederick Emmons Terman was the Stanford engineer and research administrator who directed Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory and later built Stanford's military-funded electronics ecosystem. ## Chronological Proximity He returned to Stanford in 1945–1946 as the wartime laboratory network demobilized and, around 1951, established the [[wiki/Applied Electronics Laboratory|Applied Electronics Laboratory]]. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Vannevar Bush|Vannevar Bush]] was his doctoral adviser and recruited him for wartime service; Terman then connected [[wiki/Stanford University|Stanford]], classified research, [[wiki/Stanford Industrial Park|Stanford Industrial Park]], and technology spinouts. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].