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Stanford University Lowers Cost of PC Management With Microsoft Windows XP, Dell OpenManage, and Altiris Deployment Solution
White Papers Stanford University's IT infrastructure is as diverse and dynamic as its students and faculty. Bristling with new ideas, Stanford professors and students make extraordinary demands on the university's IT staff by regularly evaluating a myriad of...
[September 27, 2005, 0:00]
Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough
News Stanford University researchers have made a discovery that could signal the arrival of laptop batteries that last more than a day on a single charge. The new Li-ion batteries were developed by assistant professor Yi Cui and colleges at Stanford...
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
Google could be five times faster
News Users of the Google search engine like it because it's fast, but a team at Stanford University has come up with ways to make it up to five times faster. To speed up PageRank, Stanford researchers have developed a trio of techniques based on a...
[May 27, 2003, 8:48]
Start-up targets more personal search
News A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search -- and possibly out-Google Google in the process. Kaltix is a 'stealth mode' start-up.leveraging) research done at Stanford...
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Mystery attackers strike Linux supercomputers
News Unknown attackers have compromised a large number of Linux and Solaris machines in high-speed computing networks at Stanford University and other academic research facilities, according to a university advisory.
[April 14, 2004, 9:05]
IBM allies with Stanford for spintronics
News IBM and Stanford University on Monday will announce a joint effort to conduct further research into spintronics, which is a technology that one day could lead to computers that could start working as soon as the power comes on or rapid fire...
[April 26, 2004, 10:30]
Web users shun banner ads research finds
News Surfers are not responding to Internet advertisements according to research published by Stanford University last week. The research called Eyetrack2000 has been conducted by The Poynter Institute at Stanford University.
[May 15, 2000, 15:48]
Nanotube breakthrough paves path for carbon chips
News Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and a method of testing them -- two significant steps that could help pave the way for carbon chips.
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
FBI investigating ID theft at Stanford
News The FBI is investigating a computer system security breach at Stanford University that may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk, the university said on Wednesday. The intrusion occurred on 11 May at the Career...
[May 26, 2005, 10:20]
Bug-hunting becomes mass effort
News Researchers at the University of California and at Stanford University have released versions of several open-source software packages modified to send debugging information to a central site, letting people who use the software contribute to the...
[October 20, 2003, 9:10]
Google to unlock libraries
News Stanford and the University of Michigan have given Google the go-ahead to digitise their entire libraries, which Google estimated at seven million volumes each. Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Oxford, Stanford and...
[December 14, 2004, 8:50]
Robot meets robot in 'Darpa city' race
News Stanford university's robot, Junior, was the first to cross the finishing line in the Urban Grand Challenge, a six-hour test of autonomous vehicles with three separate missions. Stanford University's robot, Junior, left the starting gate shortly...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
Experts: Copyright law hurts technology
News There has to be a way between the lunatics at the two extremes," said Larry Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University and well-known opponent of the DMCA. The Stanford professor has created an organisation called the Creative Commons to offer...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
News Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, California-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine.
[April 15, 2005, 9:50]
Court questions independence of Oracle investigators
News The other board members who sold stocks are Jeffrey Henley, Oracle's chief financial officer; Donald Lucas, a Stanford University alumnus who has directed millions of dollars of contributions toward the school; and Michael Boskin, a Stanford...
[June 18, 2003, 7:53]
Tech innovation is under threat
News He also serves on the boards of three academic institutions: the Insead School of Business in Fontainebleau, near Paris; the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, which awarded him one of his four honorary doctoral degrees; and Stanford University's...
[November 1, 2006, 9:30]
Sun acquires firm employing its co-founder
News The founders met at Stanford University, and indeed, the company's name derives from the acronym for Stanford University Network. Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron...
[February 11, 2004, 7:50]
End of an era at Yahoo!
News founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, who built the site the previous year while attending graduate school at Stanford University. He left to get more engineering degrees at Stanford. He graduated first in his class at the University of Virginia with...
[March 8, 2001, 8:47]
IBM: Research is the key
News Companies that have a day-to-day involvement have a higher probability of landing students," said Jim Plummer, dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University, adding that recruitment is one of the big benefits for IBM in these programmes.
[June 17, 2004, 16:20]
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
Talkback Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Hennessy, President, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Chambers, President of Cisco Systems regarding Black Hat confrence and Michael Lynn Saga.since then Things at Cisco systems moved in the negative...
[July 30, 2005, 21:54]
