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Electrode material holds promise of 30-year batteries

...Stanford University researchers have given details of a new electrode material they claim... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Researchers improve quantum-dot solar-cell efficiency

...In the search for cheap and efficient solar cells, Stanford University researchers are mixing in new ingredients. Solar cells made with quantum... Read more

23 February, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang in shock resignation

...has abruptly resigned from Yahoo, the company he co-founded with fellow Stanford University student David Filo in 1995. Although Yahoo is still the world... Read more

17 January, 2012

California marks 'Steve Jobs Day'

...Steve Jobs Day' in the Golden State. Silicon Valley royalty assembled at Stanford University to pay their respects to Jobs at a memorial service organised... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Steven Musil

Google throws switch on 1Gbps Stanford network

...Some residents near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California are getting the first taste of Google... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Stanford squeezes piezoelectricity out of graphene

...not already impressive enough, materials scientists working with sophisticated computer models at Stanford University have added another useful trick to graphene’s repertoire: they have... Read more

21 March, 2012

Injectable medical robots take a step closer

...shown off at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference on Wednesday by Stanford University electrical engineer Ada Poon. The technology promises tiny machines that can... Read more

27 February, 2012

Cisco, Google and VMware invest in Puppet Labs

...of the company's products include Zynga, Twitter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford University and Oracle, the company said in a statement. The technology can... Read more

29 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

10 weird and wonderful things you didn't know about Google

...web pages based on their backlinks. BackRub was run on servers from Stanford University, where the pair studied, but was closed down after a year... Read more

28 November, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Want batteries fit for the Grid? Just add copper

...that would be silly and childish. But it is true. Researchers at Stanford University report a breakthrough in electrode technology they say could make it... Read more

28 November, 2011

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

...at UCLA, I think I became particularly excited as an undergraduate at Stanford University where I got to use an extraordinary computer called the Burroughs... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Apple commemorates Steve Jobs

...for company employees. Over the weekend, Jobs's life was celebrated on Stanford University's campus in a similarly private event attended by friends, family... Read more

20 October, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

'Stay hungry. Stay foolish': Steve Jobs in his own words

...were inspired by him. In a 2005 commencement address to students at Stanford University, Jobs delivered what can only be described as a eulogy for... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dies aged 56

...John Sculley and the management board. Jobs later told an audience of Stanford University graduates "what had been the focus of my entire adult life... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Jo Best and Nick Heath

Datacentre energy use: there's good news and bad

...shock as the report's author, Jonathan G Koomey, a professor at Stanford University and a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researched and reported... Read more

14 September, 2011

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