Well, since software companies are so big and wealthy and seem world-dominating right now, people in this field tend to think of them as the greatest minds ever. I wonder where are all the Silicon Valley Nobel prizes, all the cure for diseases discovered there, etc. There are some great, great minds working there, some geniuses no doubt. But their field isn't the end all for intelligence. Not even close, actually (to me), as I'd rather have advances in many other fields over IT, any day.

UC-Berkeley has enough Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners that they're the only ones that get free parking[1][2].

Some of the smartest people in the world are also at Stanford, NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and similar organizations.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1138832... [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_affilia...