> "Why not stay in Albuquerque then?" Couldn't find the tech talent there. > "which has a top-ranked Computer Science program" You do realize this was 40 yea

> "Why not stay in Albuquerque then?" Couldn't find the tech talent there. > "which has a top-ranked Computer Science program" You do realize this was 40 years ago and as I had already pointed out, things change? Those that have watched the Arthur C. Clark & Stanley Kubrick movie, "2001 A Space Odyssey" know that HAL was created in Urbana, Illinois, home of the Univ of Illinois which is one of the top engineering and computer science schools. If you examine the chart near the end of this article, you can see that U. Illinois receives $170 million per year in CS NSF funds. #2 Cornell is < $120 million. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/want-a-job-in-silicon-valley-after-yale-good-luck-with-that https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/want-a-jo... As for the business decision of Gates/Allen to locate Microsoft in Seattle so as not to be in the competitive market for talent of SV, I saw it from a reliable source (perhaps something Gates himself said). Disclosure: I grew up in Urbana (my h.s. is across the street from the U of I CS building) and I programmed for faculty on their supercomputers beginning when I was 15.