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1934-2
SILICON VALLEY
PIONEER
Rode working at Hewlett-Packard.
NORTHWESTERN
Personal collection.
LOS ALTOS
Born into a farming family in the village of
Nožice near Radomlje, Rode graduated from
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljublja-
na and continued his studies in the US, drawn
there by his secondary school sweetheart
Mija, who was then living with her family in
Chicago and would later become his wife. In
1962 he was awarded a master’s degree from
Northwestern University in Illinois, whereup-
on he and his wife moved to Palo Alto, Califor-
nia, where he worked for Hewlett-Packard for
almost twenty years. In 1979 he and a partner
started the company Sielox. In 1990 he took
a position at a satellite navigation company
in Sunyvale, California. Nine years later he
joined two colleagues in founding eRide. He
retired in 2008. He remained in California un-
til his death and is buried there.
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Electrical engineer and inven-
tor, entrepreneur, hobby wood-
worker, and avid tennis player.