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Choice Tables - Italian Restaurants in San Francisco - NYTimes.com

Northern Italians, mostly from Liguria (specifically Genoa), were among the first European immigrants to arrive in San Francisco in significant numbers, right about the time of the Gold Rush. Perhaps because their arrival coincided with the region’s development, and because much of California is essentially “Mediterranean” in both climate and topography, their impact was profound. It’s not novel to say that so-called Californian cuisine is essentially Italian (perhaps “Italian-dominated Mediterranean” would be more accurate). But no comparably sized city has more authentic and better regional Italian food — of all the cities in Italy only Rome has the audacity to support restaurants whose food originated in other regions — and, really, with the possible exception of New York, it may be said that San Francisco is the world’s best city for regional Italian food.

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Santa Clara ( / ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ k l ær ə / ), founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County , in the U.S. state of California . The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions , Mission Santa Clara de Asís , and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the grounds of Santa Clara University. Saint Clare is the patron saint of Santa Clara. [ 2 ] The population was 116,468 at the 2010 census. Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley , and is home to the headquarters of Intel , Applied Materials , NVIDIA , Agilent Technologies , and many other high-tech companies.

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Agilent Technologies ( NYSE : A ), or Agilent , is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. Agilent Technologies has a stock market capitalization of over 15 billion USD and the company's headquarters are in Santa Clara , California , in the Silicon Valley region. Many of Agilent's predecessor product lines were developed by Hewlett-Packard , the American computing company founded in 1939. In 1999, the product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to the public in an initial public offering .

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Coordinates : 37°22′14.62″N 121°57′49.46″W / 37.3707278°N 121.9637389°W / 37.3707278; -121.9637389 Nvidia ( NASDAQ : NVDA ; / ɪ n ˈ v ɪ d i ə / in- VID -ee-ə ) [ 1 ] is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California . Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors (GPUs). Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Technologies (formerly ATI Technologies ) have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles.

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Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers , computer components, computer software , and information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. [ 2 ] At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley ), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center . On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009. [ 3 ] The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was merged with Oracle USA, Inc. to become Oracle America, Inc. [ 4 ] Sun products included computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD 's Opteron and Intel 's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies included the Java platform , MySQL , and NFS .

Applied Materials, Inc. ( NASDAQ : AMAT , SEHK : 4336 ) is a capital equipment producer serving the semiconductor , TFT LCD display, Glass, WEB and solar (crystalline and thin film ) manufacturing industries. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California in the Silicon Valley . Applied Materials creates and commercializes nanomanufacturing technology used in the production of semiconductor ( integrated circuit ) chips for electronic gear, flat panel displays for computers and television, glass coatings for homes and buildings, web ( flexible substrate ) coatings for industry and photovoltaic solar cells and modules using both thin film and crystalline (aka wafer or bulk ) photovoltaic technology. Applied Materials is also participating in the lighting industry through the European OPAL 2008 (Organic Phosphorescent lights for Applications in the Lighting market 2008) Program with the aim to develop a production technology for organic light-emitting diodes .

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Intel Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Intel Corporation ( NASDAQ : INTC ) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara , California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. [ 4 ] It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors , the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Int egrated El ectronics (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intel ligence [ citation needed ] ). Intel also makes motherboard chipsets , network interface controllers and integrated circuits , flash memory , graphic chips , embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove , Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability.

Stanford University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates : 37°26′N 122°10′W / 37.43°N 122.17°W / 37.43; -122.17 The Leland Stanford Junior University , commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford , is an American private research university located in Stanford , California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto , California, United States.

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Location in the United States Coordinates: 37°46′45.48″N 122°25′9.12″W / 37.7793°N 122.4192°W / 37.7793; -122.4192 Coordinates : 37°46′45.48″N 122°25′9.12″W / 37.7793°N 122.4192°W / 37.7793; -122.4192 San Francisco ( / ˌ s æ n f r ə n ˈ s ɪ s k oʊ / ), officially the City and County of San Francisco , is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area , a region of 7.5 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland . [ 10 ] The only consolidated city-county in California, [ 11 ] it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km 2 ) [ 12 ] on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula , giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km 2 ).

Cafe De La Presse - Nob Hill - San Francisco, CA

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San Francisco Restaurants and Union Square Restaurants - Kuleto'

For decades, Kuleto’s has hosted new guests and old friends from up the street and around the world right in the heart of San Francisco’s Union Square. Our Northern Italian cuisine with an American twist uses choice ingredients hand-picked by local family farmers to create seasonal specials celebrate the natural bounty of Bay Area. At Kuleto’s, you will find families celebrating 60 th birthdays, young couples savoring a special anniversary, ladies enjoying a relaxing drink and antipasto after an arduous day of shopping, groups of conventioneers and out of town guest who return to Kuleto’s year after year.

San Francisco's season of street fairs, festivals and block parties begins ramping up in May, and this week is chock-a-block with 'em. The city's first Asian Contemporary Art Week has talks by curators and artists, performance art in action, parties and exhibits, and is just one of many events for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month . Civic Center, the Asian Art Museum, and Little Saigon will be taken over on Saturday by the Asian Heritage Street Celebration . The San Francisco International Art Festival and Young at Art Festival continue through Sunday, and if you're a DIYer, you shouldn't miss the Maker Faire; our May events calendar has details on all of them. Sunday, of course, is the incomparable Bay to Breakers . Find out the essentials, whether you're a Bay to Breakers runner (official or unofficial) or you're a sideline spectator .

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The Daily Nugget is officially on hiatus until whenever I get around to it. The site will not go down, but do not expect new posts in the near future. Seriously, I went from writing a daily nugget, to a weekly nugget, to a monthly nugget and now I can’t even squeeze out a quarterly nugget. There is just too much going on in my life right now.