Silicon Prairie
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The Silicon Prairie can refer to one of several places in the United States: an area in Illinois, and more commonly one in Texas.
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[edit] Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie
North Texas's Silicon Prairie refers to north Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is named for the high concentration of Information Technology companies in the area. Large IT companies that make up a significant amount of the employment in the Dallas area include Texas Instruments (Richardson), EDS (Plano), RadioShack (Fort Worth), AT&T (Dallas), Nortel (Richardson), Alcatel-Lucent (Richardson), Ericsson (Richardson), Rockwell Collins (Richardson), Raytheon (Plano), Verizon (Irving), CompUSA (Addison), Entrust (Addison), i2 Technologies (Irving), Match.com (Dallas), Hotels.com (Dallas), Travelocity (Southlake), Motorola (Dallas), Nokia (Irving), and Microsoft (Irving). The Telecom Corridor in Richardson is usually considered an area within the Silicon Prairie. There are also a large amount of recognized video and computer game developers in the area, known as the Dallas Gaming Mafia, including Gearbox Software, id Software, 3D Realms, and Ensemble Studios. [1]
[edit] Illinois Silicon Prairie
The Illinois Silicon Prairie is seen as the area between Chicago and Champaign/Urbana.[2]
[edit] Wyoming Silicon Prairie
Refers to the region of Wyoming south and east of Jackson Hole. Also called the Silicon Range where a growing number of internet (Web 2.0) startups.
[edit] References
- ^ International association of science and technology for development -" The IASTED International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (CASB 2006)." Originally published 2005. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ Tech News World -" Silicon Prairie May Be Fertile Ground for Emerging Homeland Security Biz." Originally published 7 March 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
