From Seoul To Silicon: A Life in Computing

From Seoul to Silicon is the memoir of Heon Yook, a Korean-born technologist who arrived in America with a graduate student's visa, a background in mainframes, and a conviction that the personal computer was about to change everything. It did. And so did he.

The story begins not in Silicon Valley but in a classroom at Hanyang University in Seoul, in 1979. Newly returned from his mandatory service in the Korean Army, Yook took his first lessons in what was then called EDPS — Electronic Data P...