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Is Yang right to run Yahoo?
News Thirteen years ago, Jerry Yang was working on his doctoral degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University when he and fellow student David Filo created "Jerry Yang's Guide to the World Wide Web".
[June 19, 2007, 12:54]
Scaling Google's peaks
News Silverstein, 31, left his doctoral studies at Stanford University in 1998, joining school chums Sergey Brin and Larry Page in a nearby garage to build the now-famed search engine. The company recently renewed an exclusive PageRank license from...
[May 11, 2004, 15:00]
US Government to fund open source bug hunt
News Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24m (£702,000) in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News This is a war being waged by copyright interests who see each opportunity on the Internet as an opportunity to change the meaning of copyright law," said Lawrence Lessig, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and author...
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
Home PCs fight bugs in anthrax quest
News The software, described by Oxford University as 'in-silico' testing, has previously been used by United Devices for an ongoing programme of screening molecules for anti-cancer properties, and follows the groundbreaking work of the University of...
[January 22, 2002, 17:41]
Open-source bug-hunting effort to grow
News Coverity makes source-code analysis tools and shares the DHS contract with Stanford University and Symantec. In January 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security awarded $1.24m to Stanford, Coverity and Symantec to find vulnerabilities in open...
[March 28, 2007, 9:01]
Graphics technology shows shape of the universe
News Rendering is the modeling of the appearance of the everyday world," said Pat Hanrahan, a professor at Stanford University and this year's winner of ACM's Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
Sitting in techie heaven
News Once known as Stanford Research Institute for its home at the prestigious university from 1946 to independence in 1970 - SRI is a non-profit organisation that's been instrumental to the development of everyday marvels like the computer mouse, the...
[April 4, 2006, 18:00]
Dell wants more PCs recycled
News Dell on Friday will hold a training session on recycling at Stanford University. On Saturday, residents who live near the university in the California counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo will be able to bring in their PCs and have them recycled...
[October 10, 2003, 9:45]
Magnificent MEMS and the micro-machines
News At Stanford University, researchers have shown how small, unhardened radios can transmit and receive messages while in orbit. Nanotechnology -- the science of making devices with features measuring less than 100 nanometres (or one-ten-millionth of...
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
Does the Net need a 'red-light district'?
News Bringing zoning rules to the Internet has an eclectic group of supporters, including Stanford University professor Gio Wiederhold, Web porn queen Danni Ashe and US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
[August 7, 2000, 10:24]
Net emerging from its Stone Age
News Some historians contend the actual birth of the Internet should be celebrated on Oct.when the UCLA computer sent a message to a computer at Stanford University. We're just emerging from the Stone Age of the Internet," Leonard Kleinrock, a...
[September 3, 1999, 9:04]
Computer science turns off students
News Across the bay at Stanford University, the number of computer science undergraduate majors has declined for the past four years, from 171 in the 2000-2001 year to 118 this past year. The Rutgers University computer science department has cancelled...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
A Year Ago: Net emerging from its Stone Age
News Some historians contend the actual birth of the Internet should be celebrated on Oct.when the UCLA computer sent a message to a computer at Stanford University. We're just emerging from the Stone Age of the Internet," Leonard Kleinrock, a...
[September 3, 2000, 7:09]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News Tanji spoke at the Hot Chips conference taking place at Stanford University. IBM and the University of Texas have a similar teraflop-on-a-chip project. The University of Tokyo initiated the MDGrape project 15 years ago to develop a chip for...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
Enabling machines to reason like humans
News With Dartmouth hosting a 50th anniversary conference this month, McCarthy — now a professor emeritus at Stanford University — spoke about the early expectations for AI, the accomplishments since then and what remains to be done.
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths
News Agarwal and other executives from the company will discuss the architecture further on Monday at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Stanford University President John Hennessy was the leader of that project.
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
Microsoft settlement watchers chosen
News Fite, who has a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, is a former Microsoft employee. Saal, who holds a doctorate in physics from Columbia University, also has taught computer science courses.
[November 22, 2002, 10:15]
Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame
News And it was there, in 1973, that he and Stanford University graduate student Dave Boggs described the concept of Ethernet in an attempt to connect computers to a new laser printer that was being developed.
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
Nanotech sheds light on solar revolution
News By incorporating infrared particles, polymer solar cells could potentially harvest up to 30 percent of the total energy from the sun, according to Peter Peumans, a professor at Stanford University who has examined some of the experimental results...
[January 18, 2005, 16:00]
