SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

fascinating

SLAC allows visitors only 1-2 days a month. The schedule and sign up dates are available on line, but it is imperative to sign up right away for future dates because the list fills very quickly. it's ...

Interesting facillty

We went on the tour of SLAC organised by WorldCon 76 in San Jose, being a live government site we had to be vetted previously and have valid government proof of ID to show. To start we had a film sh...

Amazing facilities

Used to play pick up soccer games here when I was based in Palo Alto, was like playing on a carpet. Mastered my corner taking over the months I spent here, can stick a ball on a pin head now.

I've used the SLAC auditorium many times in the past

This is a historic location not only for the science done ehre, but also the first US web site, and the home meeting locations of the Homebrew Computer Club and my former SIGGRAPH chapter. It's a fine...

If you can get in, do it.

This is not "open to the public." We went with a Stanford tour group and got to see various parts of the buildings, some of which are just below ground level. Very interesting to someone who likes s...