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| Embrace has designed a small sleeping bag with a heating unit that, after a few minutes in boiling water, maintains a temperature of 98.6°F (37°C) for four-hour stretches. Time (09.15.2009) |
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| The Siebel Scholars Foundation has honored 10 engineering students (and five in the business school). Siebel Scholars Foundation (09.15.2009) |
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| Stanford engineers and others create a structural design that lets buildings rock during earthquakes, then pull themselves into plumb when the shaking stops, confining damage to replaceable steel 'fuses.' Stanford News Service (09.01.2009) |
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| Yukio Hatoyama studied management science and engineering (PhD, MS) and electrical engineering (MS) at Stanford. AP (08.31.2009) |
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| Scientists from Stanford University have teamed up with Israeli and Jordanian researchers to protect the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic waterway whose fragile marine ecosystem is vital to both Israel and Jordan. Woods Institute for the Environment (08.25.2009) |
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| Imagine a tiny organism that lives inside your body, detecting imbalances caused by disease and immediately responding with natural chemicals. Stanford students are attempting to engineer just such non-pathogenic bacteria, tiny agents that could detect and treat inflammatory bowel diseases by regulating cells that trigger inflammation. Stanford Report (08.13.2009) |
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| This year, 28 Stanford students including two from Civil and Environmental Engineering were awarded the 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholarship, a record number for the University. More than 7,000 American students applied for 1,500 available scholarships Stanford Daily (07.23.2009) |
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| The risk of a child born today suffering an early death due to nuclear war is at least 10 percent, according to Martin Hellman, a tall, thin and talkative Stanford Professor Emeritus in Engineering. Stanford News Service (07.17.2009) |
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| Zheng, in Mechanical Engineering, and Fringer, in Civil and Environmental Engineering, won Presidential Early Career in Science and Engineering awards, considered the government's top honor for a young researcher. White House (07.09.2009) |
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| The light-emitting diode, made with highly doped germanium, could lead to a laser that would dramatically speed up communications on computer chips. Stanford Engineering (07.08.2009) |
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| NASA has chosen Michael S. Hopkins, an alumnus of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to be one of its newest astronauts. Of the nine-member class, two others are also alumni of Stanford University. NASA (06.29.2009) |
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| The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has named Peter Levin, a consulting professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Nextgov.com (06.25.2009) |
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| Two Stanford University graduate students have won the inaugural IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition for a handheld laboratory capable of diagnosing illness in remote corners of the globe. Santa Cruz Sentinel (06.24.2009) |
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| Management Science and Engineering Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt explains the right amount of structure for businesses in fast-growing markets. Toronto Globe and Mail (06.09.2009) |
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| Computer Science Professor and widely respected Silicon Valley investor Rajeev Motwani died June 5 at age 47. Stanford News Service (06.06.2009) |
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| When cutbacks are necessary, can a good boss do right by the company's finances and by its staff? Management Science and Engineering Professor Bob Sutton explains how to do just that. Stanford Report (06.03.2009) |
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| Mini-satellites are reaching space in increasing numbers, thanks to a do-it-yourself satellite program at Stanford University KQED Radio (05.18.2009) |
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| Entrepreneurship, particularly in the engineering school, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The impact in Silicon Valley has been tremendous. San Jose Mercury News (05.11.2009) |
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| The European planemaker Airbus is offering 30,000 euros for the best idea drawn from proposals submitted by 2,350 students in 82 countries after launching a global competition for new concepts. Perhaps the most revolutionary concept is a U.S. proposal by students from Stanford University to adapt the ''V'' formation used by geese and other migrating birds to fly long distances. Reuters (05.07.2009) |
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| The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Stanford $20 million for a research center that will study materials at the nanoscale to improve alternative energy technology. The center will be co-directed by professors Stacey Bent and Fritz Prinz. San Jose Business Journal (05.04.2009) |
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| You have to dig deep but a new WEF report on entrepreneurship education has high praise for Stanford. We must admit that Tom Byers, an MS&E professor and director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, was one of many leading thinkers who helped compile the report. World Economic Forum (04.30.2009) |
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| Writer Brian Chen talked to students in CS193p, a class where students learn the principles of programming on one of the world's hottest platforms. Wired.com (04.29.2009) |
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| It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don’t appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers published online by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward. Stanford Medical School (04.26.2009) |
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| Wei Cai has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2009 Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston, Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award, given by the Mechanics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He will formally receive the award at the June meeting of the ASEE Mechanical Engineering (04.23.2009) |
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| Widom, also a professor of electrical engineering, was one of 12 Stanford professors joining the prestigious organization. Stanford News Service (04.22.2009) |
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| Last year Joel Sadler and his classmates faced a daunting challenge in their Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation course: Create a low-cost, high-performance prosthetic knee joint for amputees in the developing world. Dubbed the JaipurKnee Project, the team aimed to help rectify lives ravaged by war and diseases such as diabetes. Over the course of a year, the team manufactured a prosthetic that cost only $20. Stanford News Service (04.15.2009) |
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| Using data from radar instruments on Cassini, Howard A. Zebker of Stanford University and colleagues have determined that Titan bulges slightly around the middle and is squashed at the poles. New York Times (04.06.2009) |
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| The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well. Stanford News Service (04.01.2009) |
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| About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms, is that somehow it works for many patients. In a new study published March 19 in the online journal Science Express, researchers used light to illuminate how the treatment works, generating insights into the diseased circuitry and also suggesting new ideas to improve Parkinson's therapy. Technology Review (03.18.2009) |
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| Researchers at Stanford University and Samsung have developed a technique that allows them to precisely position organic microwires on a substrate and build complex circuits with relative ease. Technology Review (03.17.2009) |
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| California Sea Grant researchers say they've determined Northern California septic tanks are leaking nitrogen and phosphate into Pacific coastal waters. UPI (03.16.2009) |
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| Grace Xingxin Gao, a research associate in Stanford's Global Positioning Systems Lab, has unlocked key codes for two new satellite navigation systems. Inside GNSS (03.15.2009) |
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| President Barack Obama will nominate Kristina Johnson (PHD 1984 ,BS/MS 1981 EE) to be undersecretary of energy. Johnson is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a former engineerng dean there. Reuters (03.12.2009) |
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| Kosuke Ishii, a professor of mechanical engineering known for his dedication to teaching, died on March 2 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos. He was 51 years old. Ishii's death, the result of internal hemorrhaging from burst blood vessels in his esophagus, came as a shock to his friends, family and co-workers. Stanford Report (03.11.2009) |
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| Frustrated by this inability to fiddle with Internet routing in the real world, Stanford computer scientist Nick McKeown and colleagues developed a standard called OpenFlow that essentially opens up the Internet to researchers. Technology Review (03.02.2009) |
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| The United States cannot maintain its position as a technological leader without increased participation of women and minorities, says Stanford University's Arthur Bienenstock, a professor of materials science and engineering, and 2008 president of the American Physical Society. Stanford Report (02.20.2009) |
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| Scientists have taken a big step toward folding your personal genetic profile into many of the prescriptions you carry away from the pharmacy. Stanford Medical School (02.18.2009) |
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| Stanford engineers have released free, open-source software that can greatly ease the design and troubleshooting of electrophoresis experiments, smoothing the way for new medical and chemical discoveries. Stanford Report (02.18.2009) |
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| It has been widely assumed that the waste effluent from aquaculture pens along the coast would be benignly diluted by the sea if the pens were kept a reasonable distance from shore . But early results from a new Stanford computer simulation based on sophisticated fluid dynamics show that the icky stuff from the pens will travel farther, and in higher concentrations, than had been generally assumed, Koseff said. Stanford News Service (02.15.2009) |
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| In the New York Times, reporter John Markoff explores whether online security has become so poor that only a fundamental restructuing of the Internet would improve it. He talked with Nick McKeown, an EE and CS professor working to reshape the Net. New York Times (02.14.2009) |
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| Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field, co-authored by ME Professor Sherri Sheppard, calls on engineering colleges to more effectively link theory with professional practice, enabling students to move from being passive viewers to creators within the field. Design News (02.12.2009) |
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| Four engineering professors, Bill Dally (CS), Chaitan Khosla (ChemE), Mendel Rosenblum (CS), and Paul Yock (BioE) have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Stanford News Service (02.11.2009) |
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| On April 1, ME Professor David Kelley will receive the Edison Achievement Award from the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for his “pioneering contributions to the design of breakthrough products, services, and experiences for consumers, as well as his development of an innovative culture that has broad impact.” Fast Company (02.04.2009) |
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| Scientists from Stanford and IBM have improved the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging by 100 million times using a new technique for measuring tiny magnetic forces. The technology builds on advances made in collaboration with ME Professor Tom Kenny. Stanford News Service (01.28.2009) |
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| Researchers led by CS Associate Professor Michael Genesereth are devising a way for computers to discern the intended recipient's e-mail addresses from a description of the recpient. Maybe address books will no longer be necessary. Agence France Presse (01.28.2009) |
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| Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases. Technology Review (01.23.2009) |
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| CS students created a bunch of great iPhone applications in a fall programming class. The popular blog Techcrunch takes a look at some of the best. Techcrunch (01.22.2009) |
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| ME Professor David Kelley, founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and a widely acknowledged leader in design, is back in action after a tough but successful bout with cancer. Fast Company (01.14.2009) |
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| EE and MSE Professor Yoshio Nishi has won the SEMI lifetime achievement award ''for almost five decades of technical and collaborative contributions to semiconductor manufacturing.'' SEMI is a major semiconductor industry association and the award is its highest honor. SEMI (01.12.2009) |
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| CS Professor Sebastian Thrun co-wrote an op/ed in the New York Times in which he describes how new technologies will change the future of driving. New York Times (01.02.2009) |
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| In a New York Times Op/Ed, CS Professor Sebastian Thrun says, 'there are many new technologies to make cars safer, cheaper, cleaner and more convenient. All these could be adopted by the automobile industry in the near future and without too much trouble.' NY Times (01.02.2009) |
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| 2008 | |
| Stanford engineering and medical researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive detector of cancer proteins that could provide earlier detection and better treatment monitoring. The detector is based on magnetic nanotechnology. KGO-TV (12.18.2008) |
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| In a study, CEE Professor Mark Jacobson weighs the costs and benefits of various alternative energy technologies. Among his conclusions: Wind wins. Ars Technica (12.15.2008) |
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| Scientific American looks back at AA Professor Ilan Kroo's youth as a finalist in the famed Westinghouse science competition Scientific American (12.09.2008) |
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| Toby Gerhart, a junior majoring in management science and engineering, broke Stanford's single-season rushing record and was named the football team's most valuable player. Stanford Athletics (12.07.2008) |
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| The Stanford Board of Trustees recently elected alumnus William R. Brody, outgoing president of Johns Hopkins University and a Stanford electrical engineering alumnus, to a five-year term beginning June 10, 2009. Stanford Report (12.03.2008) |
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| Researchers at IBM, Stanford and other institutions will receive a $4.9 million federal grant to try to create an artificial brain so small and independently functional it could fit in a backpack and do pretty much the same thing that the glob of gray matter behind our eyes does. San Francisco Chronicle (11.20.2008) |
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| Junior the robot car recently took a spin in Manhattan NY Daily News (11.17.2008) |
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| Computer science researchers have developed software that can allow a user to easily plunk an image on almost any planar surface in a video, whether wall, floor or ceiling. And the embedded images don't have to be still photos—you can insert a video inside a video. Stanford News Service (11.12.2008) |
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| A project led by Nick McKeown of Stanford University has begun to open up some of the most commonly used network hardware, from companies such as HP, Cisco, NEC, and Juniper. Allowing researchers to fiddle with Internet hardware, McKeown says, will make the Internet more secure, more reliable, more energy efficient, and more pervasive. Technology Review (11.05.2008) |
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| Popular Science magazine has named bioengineering Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth to its 'Brilliant 10' list for his pioneering work on analyzing the circuitry of the brain. Popular Science (10.21.2008) |
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| Stanford researchers, including BioE Professor Stephen Quake, have developed a prenatal test that is less invasive than amniocentesis. San Jose Mercury News (10.06.2008) |
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| On Oct. 1 an all-star panel of experts on the environment and transportation gathered as part of a dinner program celebrating the relationship between Robert Bosch LLC and the School of Engineering. Stanford Daily (10.02.2008) |
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| Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say computer science researchers, also appointed in the medical school. There’s one problem: We don’t know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have been highly conserved throughout evolution. Stanford Medical Center (10.01.2008) |
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| The School of Engineering mourns the loss of CEE Professor Emeritus John Fondahl. who contributed greatly to the ability of construction firms to manage large projects. Stanford Report (09.24.2008) |
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| BioE Assistant Professor Zev Bryant is among five Stanford winners of prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health this year. Bryant studies the molecular machinery of cells. Stanford Medicine/Engineering (09.23.2008) |
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| EE Alumnus Jen-Hsun Huang has pledged $30 million to help build a new headquarters for the School of Engineering. The Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center will be a sustanable and inspiring facility with conference and collaborative work spaces, a state-of-the-art library a cafe and more. Stanford Daily (09.23.2008) |
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| The Stanford School of Engineering today announced the debut of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), the pilot of a free online service that provides Stanford’s popular introduction to computer science and other computer science and electrical engineering courses. Each consists of complete video lectures and materials such as handouts, assignments, exams and transcripts. With SEE, Stanford Engineering is releasing the courses under a Creative Commons license, explicitly encouraging educators and learners around the world to incorporate the video courses and materials into their educational endeavors and to form virtual communities around the classes. Stanford Engineering (09.17.2008) |
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| CNN takes a look at Stanford's research in developing a substitute for wood -- one that is completely renewable and less of a burden on landfills. CNN (09.17.2008) |
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| MSNBC columnist checks in on ME Professor Parviz Moin's turbulence research. MSNBC (09.16.2008) |
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| Helicopter endowed with artificial intelligence demonstrates trick maneuvers it learned from human pilots. Reuters (09.16.2008) |
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| Using microfluidic chips developed by BioE Professor Stephen Quake, researchers have discovered a new drug target, and an apparently effective new drug to fight the virus that causes Hepatitis C. Stanford Engineering/Medicine (08.31.2008) |
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| Using a tiny scope and laser light Bio-X researchers including BioE and ME Professor Scott Delp have found a new way to study how muscle works, which could aid in treatment of muscle disesases such as cerebral palsy. The New York Times (07.15.2008) |
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| Researchers led by chemical engineering Associate Professor Zhenan Bao have created a one-step way to sort out and deposit the right kind of nanotubes for electronics applications. By ensuring that the right nanotubes will be in place to do the job, she has lowered a major practicality barrier to using the promising but troublesome components in future chips. Technology Review (07.10.2008) |
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| Assistant Professor Yi Cui has grown what is surely the smallest replica of the 'tall tree' ever created. His version, constructed of lead selenide nanowires, is roughly a million times smaller than 'El Palo Alto,' the living, breathing redwood near El Camino Real. Stanford Report (07.09.2008) |
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| Making the Big House a 'green' house: CEE Professor Martin Fischer will lead a project to reduce the carbon footprint of the Santa Clara County Jail. Palo Alto Daily News (06.29.2008) |
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| Stanford electrical engineers have built nanotube circuits on an industrial 'VLSI' scale. Moreover they have show they can build the circuits to tolerate the twisty and bendy wiring that nanotubes provide, The development shows that nanotubes are becoming increasingly practical for use in manufacutring high-speed, low-power electronics in the future. San Francisco Chronicle (06.29.2008) |
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| CS Professor David Dill is working with other experts to analyze threats to electronic voting. Network World (06.10.2008) |
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| The Singapore Stanford Partnership, is a thriving program in which offers environmental engineering degrees in Asia. The Straits Times (06.09.2008) |
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| Dean Jim Plummer and Shankar Sastry (his counterpart at Cal) discuss the U.S. pipeline of engineering talent, compared to that in India and China. CNBC (06.02.2008) |
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| Students in the d.School are working, both in their designs and through fund-raising activities, to help victims of the cyclone in Myanmar Stanford Daily (05.20.2008) |
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| In the May 9 issue of Science, engineers and physicists from Stanford and the University of California-Santa Barbara demonstrated a potential progenitor of an essential component of quantum computers, a logic gate that enables interaction between just two particles of light. Stanford Report (05.14.2008) |
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| CEE Professor Anne Kiremidjian explained on NPR's 'Day to Day' that many buildings in the earthquake-affected area of china lacked steel reinforcement despite China's adoption of stricter earthquake codes since the last comparable disaster. NPR (05.14.2008) |
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| Electrical Engineering Professor David A.B. Miller has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Stanford Report (05.07.2008) |
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| Stanford is teaming up with six leading computing companies in a new lab that will attempt to ease developing software for parallel processing. New York Times (04.30.2008) |
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| Dean Jim Plummer and EE & CS Professor Mark Horowitz have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Stanford Report (04.30.2008) |
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| Computer science Professor Daphne Koller is the first ever recipient of the $150,000 ACM-Infosys award for her groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence. Wall Street Journal (04.28.2008) |
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| Bioengineering postdoc Thomas Snyder is once again the world champ of sudoku, the popular puzzle game. Stanford Medical School (04.22.2008) |
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| Now playing on YouTube; Dr. Von Sirlevson's Automated Locomotive Computation Engine YouTube (04.20.2008) |
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| Junior the robotic car wowed crowds at the Long Beach Grand Prix as it drove itself around a course. Long Beach Press Telegram (04.20.2008) |
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| With an engineer's eyes, EE Professor Emeritus Martin Hellman has taken a look at the risk that nuclear deterrence could fail. IEEE Spectrum (04.01.2008) |
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| ME Professor Emeritus A. Louis London, an expert on heat exchangers who had taught at Stanford for half a century beginning in 1938, died March 18 at Marin General Hospital following a stroke, his family said. SF Chronicle (03.28.2008) |
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| Stanford electrical engineers have created a camera with thousands of lenses that can capture scenes in fine 3D detail by measuring the distance from the camera to many points in the scene. Stanford Report (03.19.2008) |
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| A genomics analysis system created by computer science researchers can determine the ancestry of individuals with high accuracy and considerable precision going back as far as 20 generations. Stanford Report (03.19.2008) |
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| Two CEE professors, Jennifer Davis and Alexandria Boehm, have won a grant to study water and sanitation in Africa. Stanford Report (03.10.2008) |
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| A new $17 million, five-year Department of Energy grant will fund research on simulating hypersonic flight, which refers to speeds five times faster than the speed of sound and up. Palo Alto Weekly (03.07.2008) |
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| Wall St. Journal columnist Lee Gomes reflects on helping judge the entries in the 2008 Stanford Innovation Challenge, a contest among young entrepreneurs to create as much value as possible from a pile of rubber bands. Wall St. Journal (03.05.2008) |
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| The life and scholarship of late computer science Professor Gene Golub inspired former students and colleagues in cities around the world to hold symposia in his memory Feb. 29. Science Blog (02.29.2008) |
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| The San Francisco Chronicle stopped by the 'Startup 101' job fair during Entrepreneurship Week and found a bustling scene of economic optimism San Francisco Chronicle (02.29.2008) |
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| Stanford electrical engineers have for the first time demonstrated that carbon nanotubes can act as the wiring on computer chips and deliver commercially relevant speed. Semiconductor International (02.16.2008) |
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| A group of space exploration experts concluded after a two-day meeting that NASA needs more funding and enhanced international collaboration if the U.S. is to realize the vision of once again sending human explorers beyond low-earth orbit. Reuters (02.15.2008) |
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| MS&E Professor William Perry led a group of prominent engineers who have compiled a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century. Wired Science (02.15.2008) |
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| Stanford University Professor Emeritus James M. Gere, 82, who taught engineering for 34 years and co-founded the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, died Jan. 30 in Portola Valley from a rare form of cancer. Stanford Report (02.13.2008) |
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| David Luenberger, a professor of Management Science and Engineering and an expert on finance, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. NAE (02.08.2008) |
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| The new Make3d algorithm, developed by Stanford computer scientists, can take any two-dimensional image and create a three-dimensional 'fly around' model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view Stanford Report (01.23.2008) |
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| Alan T. Waterman Jr. was a runner, a mountain climber and a professor of electrical engineering whose work on radio waves pushed him into the contentious Vietnam-era turmoil over military research on the Stanford campus. Stanford Report (01.23.2008) |
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| CS Associate Professor Ron Fedkiw shared an Academy Award with two collaborators Feb. 9. Fedkiw and the two employees of Industrial Light and Magic (one man is a former student) created a fluid simulation model to generate oceans and fire for movies such as those in the Harry Potter, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean series. IEEE Spectrum (01.16.2008) |
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| ChemE Professor Chaitan Khosla and colleagues report the first-ever determination of the 'open' structure of an enzyme with a key role in Celiac Sprue disease, a condition that makes ingestion of gluten harmful, generating new hope in the fight against the disease. Chemical & Engineering News (01.09.2008) |
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| Climate-warming carbon dioxide spewed by coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles has been causing hundreds of premature U.S. deaths each year over the several decades, according to a study by CEE Professor Mark Jacobson. Reuters (01.04.2008) |
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| 2007 | |
| Drew Endy is an inventive scientific heir of the original genetic engineers at Stanford and UCSF who started to revolutionize biology and medicine around the time he was born in 1970. Now he's coming to join the Bioengineering faculty at Stanford. SF Chronicle (12.26.2007) |
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| C. Allin Cornell, 69, a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering who played a pioneering role in earthquake shaking predictions and modern seismic building codes, died Dec. 14 at Stanford Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. Stanford Report (12.20.2007) |
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| Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. Stanford Report (12.18.2007) |
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| A new design for silicon-based chips makes it possible to mechanically stretch them out to cover large areas. These expanded chips, which could be thousands of times the size of the original, could be used to make cheaper solar panels, sensor networks, and flat-screen TVs. Technology Review (12.14.2007) |
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| Ginzton Lab researchers at Stanford have constructed a special kind of quantum matter that could be a steppingstone to simulate the previously unpredictable behavior of multiple-particle systems Stanford Report (12.05.2007) |
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| CEE researchers have found that linking wind farms together can greatly increase their reliability and commercial viability Stanford Report (12.05.2007) |
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| The Materials Research Society gave its highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, to materials science and engineering Professor Emeritus William Nix on Nov. 28. MRS (11.28.2007) |
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| Gene H. Golub, a professor emeritus who helped found the Stanford Computer Science Department in the 1960s, died Nov. 16, at Stanford Hospital, a few days after being diagnosed with leukemia. He was 75. Stanford News Service (11.21.2007) |
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| Volkswagen of America announced a contribution of $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research. Volkswagen of America (11.15.2007) |
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| ME Associate Professor Juan Santiago is working to develop a new type of chemical sensor that may be markedly better at sniffing out explosives, narcotics or environmental toxins than sensors now on the market. Stanford Report (11.14.2007) |
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| Junior the robot car and the Stanford Racing Team returned from their second-place finish at the DARPA Urban Challenge to a celebration on campus KPIX (11.05.2007) |
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| Cardinal linebacker and MS&E major Clinton Snyder has played admirably through injury this year San Jose Mercury News (11.02.2007) |
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| Read an interview with CS and EE Professor Sebastian Thrun, leader of the Stanford Racing Team. The team is competing in the DARPA Urban Challenge. San Jose Mercury News (10.21.2007) |
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| BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth and collaborators have discovered some of the biochemistry of waking up. The research used a unique technique that Deisseroth and his research group invented. Stanford Report (10.19.2007) |
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| When Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared in the Nobel Peace Prize, several Stanford faculty who have contributed to the IPCC, including MS&E Professor (Research) John Weyant took part in the celebration. Stanford Daily (10.17.2007) |
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| Funded by a new type of $2 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the multidisciplinary team hopes to learn how electrical, mechanical and chemical stimulation can be applied to stem cells to generate tissue for repairing damage, such as that caused by heart attacks. Stanford Report (10.17.2007) |
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| MS&E Professor Bob Sutton has won a Quill Award for his latest book about how to deal with jerks at work Stanford Daily (10.11.2007) |
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| AA Consulting Professor G. Scott Hubbard recalls the impact of the Sputnik launch 50 years ago SF Chronicle (10.07.2007) |
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| In the lab Bioengineering Professor Stephen Quake and student H. Christina Fan have reduced the time required to complete a prenatal birth defects test from two weeks to two hours. American Chemical Society (09.18.2007) |
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| Former NASA Ames research center director G. Scott Hubbard will boost space research in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department in his new role as a consulting professor. Stanford News Service (09.12.2007) |
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| Stanford researchers are shedding some new light on the impact of cigarette smoking in cars. A new study found that even with the windows down, smoke particulate levels were still quite higher than what is considered healthy. KCBS (09.09.2007) |
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| CS graduate student Manu Kumar's EyePoint interface uses a four-step process that incorporates a user's hands and eyes to increase accuracy and eliminate the false positives that come from using eye movements alone. The technique brings a more natural way of interaction to a broader band of users. Computerworld (08.20.2007) |
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| Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry, uses light pulses to activate or inactivate genetically modified brain cells thousands of times a second. New York Times (08.15.2007) |
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| Ronald N. Bracewell, professor emeritus of electrical engineering whose work in magnetic resonance imaging and radio astronomy made him an internationally renowned scholar and a pillar among the technical sciences faculty at Stanford, died at his home on campus Sunday. He was 86. Stanford News Service (08.14.2007) |
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| CEE Assistant Professor Alexandria Boehm and her team has detected the presence of bacteria from human waste in the sands of Lover's Point beach in Monterey, CA Bay City Newswire (08.14.2007) |
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| A dozen Bay Area students, each the first in their families to go to college or be college-bound, celebrated completing 8-week paid internships in the labs of Stanford scientists and engineers. San Jose Mercury News (08.13.2007) |
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| BioE Professor Stephen Quake's microfluidic silicone chips advance life sciences and medical resarch by automating biology experiments in tiny reaction volumes. KGO-TV (08.12.2007) |
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| Hundreds of alumni and their children learned all about bioengineering at Stanford Engineering's Camp EDAY 'Engineering From Head to Toe' July 21 Stanford News Service (08.08.2007) |
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| India-born EE Professor Krishna C Saraswat has become the first recipient of the Techno Visionary award of the Indian Semiconductor Association for lifetime achievement in the field of electronics. Hindustan Times (08.01.2007) |
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| The findings of a working group at Stanford's Energy Modeling Forum may surprise policymakers, who often think that energy independence is the only way to secure energy supplies. In a report released Tuesday, July 24, and available on the Energy Modeling Forum's website, the group finds that increasing international interdependence on natural gas may help to stabilize supply and moderate future price increases. Stanford Report (07.25.2007) |
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| The science of plasmonics describes how metals can essentially transmit and manipulate light waves at length scales much smaller than their wavelengths. Now, by redoing a classic optics experiment with plasmonics, engineers at Stanford have made key insights into the nature and the practical limits of this up-and-coming nanoscale information technology. Stanford Report (07.12.2007) |
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| Umran Inan, a professor of electrical engineering, was awarded the 2007 Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research during the Electrical Engineering Department's diploma ceremony last month. Stanford Report (07.11.2007) |
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| Infants learn how to move by recognizing which movements and positions cause them physical discomfort and learning to avoid them. Computer science Professor Oussama Khatib and his research group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are using the same principle to endow robots with the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and smoothly. Stanford News Service (07.11.2007) |
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| William 'Bill' Rambo, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering who developed a jammer to counter German anti-aircraft radar during World War II, died peacefully at his home in Morrison, Colo., on Feb. 22 after a brief illness. He was 90. Stanford News Service (07.09.2007) |
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| A group of engineering and medical researchers, led by BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth, has made a key finding regarding the physiology of depression in rats. Stanford School of Medicine (07.05.2007) |
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| Alumni in the news: Fomer water polo player and current astronaut Steve Smith (BS 1981 EE, MS 1982 EE) has been voted into the Academic All-America Hall Of Fame. CSTV (06.25.2007) |
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| The Board of Trustees last week approved the site and concept for a new $12.7 million Mechanical Engineering building on the east side of Lomita Mall. The three-story building will bring two groups in the Department of Mechanical Engineering—Mechanics and Computation, and Biomechanical Engineering—under one roof. Stanford News Service (06.20.2007) |
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| Junior the robot car performed well during its site visit with evaluators from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is holding a race of robot cars Nov. 3 KTVU (06.14.2007) |
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| Medical school surgical students can work with advanced simulations in a new center thanks to a gift by EE Professor Emeritus Joe Goodman and his wife, Hon Mai. San Jose Mercury News (06.02.2007) |
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| Charitopia, is the brainchild of Stanford scientists using computational logic to bring intelligent matchmaking to the world of donations. Stanford News Service (05.24.2007) |
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| With funding from the Global Climate and Energy Project, Stanford engineers such as ME Professor Fritz Prinz and CEE Professor Alfred Spormann are doing far-sighted research in alternative energy. SF Chronicle (05.21.2007) |
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| Using technology developed for Stanley the robot car, Google hopes to map the world's cities in all three spatial dimensions. CS and EE Associate Professor Sebastian Thrun will help lead this effort at Google. San Jose Mercury News (05.19.2007) |
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| Bosch has established an endowment chair at Stanford University, known as the Robert Bosch Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Bosch endowment to Stanford will fund new research programs, innovative teaching ventures as well as encourage academic entrepreneurship throughout the mechanical engineering department. Bosch (05.16.2007) |
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| CS research scientist Charles Petrie wants to create 'wizard' software to enable computers to negotiate with each other over the Internet to achieve goals that now require human time and toil. Stanford News Service (05.02.2007) |
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| Stanford University researchers affiliated with the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have conducted the first in-depth study on how smoking affects air quality at sidewalk cafés, park benches and other outdoor locations. Stanford News Service (05.02.2007) |
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| CS Professor and Chair Bill Dally, CS and EE Professor Pat Hanrahan and Chemical engineering Professor and Chair Chaitan Khosla have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. San Francisco Chronicle (05.01.2007) |
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| Alumni in the news: GPS capabilities may be coming indoors thanks to Rosum, a startup founded by alumus and consulting professor James Spilker and advised by alumnus and AA Professor Emeritus Bradford Parkinson. Businessweek (04.26.2007) |
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| The U.S. Army has awarded a $105 million, five-year grant to a multi-institution consortium led by Stanford University to build a new home for the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center. The facility will enable advanced simulations to develop new materials for military vehicles and equipment, improve wireless battlefield communication, advance detection of biological or chemical attacks and stimulate innovations in supercomputing itself. The research may spawn civilian innovations as well. Stanford News Service (04.25.2007) |
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| Logical spreadsheets—data management systems that use logic instead of math—allow easier manipulation of data, an idea that could have profound implications in fields ranging from hotel management to insurance sales. CS Professor Michael Genesereth and student Michael Kassoff have developed one such spreadsheet. Stanford News Service (04.25.2007) |
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| A study published April. 18 by CEE Associate Professor Mark Jacobson suggests that widening the use of ethanol could pose a greater health risk becaue of the production of ozone. SF Chronicle (04.18.2007) |
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| MS&E Professor Bob Sutton, author of a best-selling book on bad bosses, talks about the topic on NPR's All Things Considered program NPR (04.11.2007) |
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| BioE researchers led by Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth have developed a way to use light to control brain cell activity. The research, published April 5 in Nature, will lead to more precise brain research and possibly to new therapies. Newsday (04.05.2007) |
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| Stanford Engineering ranks second in the annual U.S. News survey of the nation's best graduate schools. The gap with MIT is down to only one point. U.S. News & World Report (04.04.2007) |
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| For his remarkable acheivements in developing biological means for treating wastewater, CEE Professor Emeritus Perry McCarty will be awarded the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize Associated Press (03.22.2007) |
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| Back before the Internet even existed, CS senior research scientist emeritus Les Earnest created what would become the first proto-blogging tool. News.com (03.20.2007) |
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| A global effort to ensure that the world's poorest people have access to adequate sanitation is in danger of falling short, says CEE Assistant Professor Jennifer Davis. Stanford News Service (03.13.2007) |
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| Entrepreneurship Week, which drew over one thousand students, industry professionals, and professors, included an entrepreneur mixer, a technology showcase, and even a venture capitalist speed dating session. It culminated with the judging of a competition called the Innovation Challenge. What could students do with a stack of Post-it Notes? Stanford Daily (03.07.2007) |
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| Teachers can use a host of technologies to enhance their courses and students' learning experiences, Byers said. These include videos, podcasts, course-specific websites with available resources and links, wikis, animations, simulations and course discussion boards. But simply having technology at hand is not enough, Byers said. Instructors must stimulate their students to want to use it. Stanford Report (03.07.2007) |
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| No mouse, no problem. Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate. It is based on tracking the user's eye movements. Technology Review (03.02.2007) |
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| The Stanford Racing Team's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a race of autonomous robot cars through simulated city streets, is Junior. Junior's debut came at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 17 in San Francisco. Reuters (02.20.2007) |
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| Alumni in the news: Jerry Yang (BS, MS 1990 EE) and Akiko Yamazaki (BS 1990 IE) are donating $75 million to fund environmental and other programs at Stanford. Stanford News Service (02.15.2007) |
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| MS&E Professor Bob Sutton, an organizational psychologist, talks about the pros and cons of dating in the workplace on a Valentine's Day edition of NPR's Morning Edition. NPR (02.14.2007) |
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| Professors Robert Gray (EE), Mark Horowitz (EE & CS), Teresa Meng (EE) and Sebastian Thrun (CS and EE) have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. National Academy of Engineering (02.12.2007) |
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| Siegfried S. Hecker, a prominent U.S. expert on nuclear technology and policy, has been appointed co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also is a research professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Stanford News Service (02.07.2007) |
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| Midomi.com, the new Web site founded by Keyvan Mohajer (PhD 2007 EE), lets you search for songs by singing them. ZD Net (01.26.2007) |
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| The Stanford community mourns the death of EE graduate student Mengyao 'May' Zhou. She was found dead in her car Jan. 25. Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, is encouraging members of the community, particularly students, to take advantage of the broad network of professional and peer resources available to them. Stanford News Service (01.26.2007) |
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| The National Academy of Sciences will present Shanhui Fan, assistant professor of electrical engineering, with the annual Award for Initiatives in Research — and with it, a $15,000 prize. Stanford Daily (01.19.2007) |
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| CEE Associate Professor Mark Jacobson has found that particles created from vehicle exhaust and other contaminants can accumulate in the atmosphere and reduce the speed of winds closer to the Earth's surface, which results in less wind power available for wind-turbine electricity and also in reduced precipitation, Stanford News Service (01.19.2007) |
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| Associate Professors Nick McKeown (CS and EE) and Oyekunle Olukotun (EE) have been named fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM (01.08.2007) |
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| Aware that people base their sense of privacy on certain social norms, CS Professor John Mitchell is working to implement an appropriately nuanced approach to data privacy in computer systems. The Economist (01.04.2007) |
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| Research in the neuroscience group of EE Assistant Professor Krishna Shenoy probes why we can't quite repeat a motion perfectly, even after years of practice: our brains appear to plan movements anew each time we make them. BBC News (12.21.2006) |
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| EE Professor Greg Kovacs and colleagues have sent e-coli bacteria into space to test the effect of radiation exposure on DNA. Bay Cities News (12.19.2006) |
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| A group led by ChemE Associate Professor Zhenan Bao has developed a method of making flexible electronics with higher-performance transistors than current methods use. CBC (12.14.2006) |
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| EE Professor Kunle Olukotun interviews Stanford President John Hennessy and Cal Professor David Patterson about the state and future of computing. ACM Queue (12.12.2006) |
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| MSE and EE Associate Professor Shan Wang has created a chip using magnetic nanotechnology that can detect DNA strands. Technology Review (12.12.2006) |
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| CS and EE Associate Professor Dawson Engler has received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser award for his research on techniques for automatically identifying errors in software systems. Coverity (12.11.2006) |
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| MS&E Professor William Perry is a member of the Iraq Study Group, which today released its much-anticipated report on Iraq policy to the president. U.S. Institute for Peace (12.06.2006) |
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| EE Professor Emeritus Tom Kailath will receive the IEEE Medal of Honor, the highest award of the technology professional association IEEE (12.05.2006) |
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| Professors and students from several Stanford Engineering departments and from elsewhere around the university presented research advances at the annual conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering in San Francisco. The advances they reported concerned Alzheimer's disease, fuel cells, and digital displays. Stanford Engineering (11.30.2006) |
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| Students from all over the world can earn a Masters degree online through the Honors Cooperative Program, a service offered by the school's Stanford Center for Professional Development San Jose Mercury News (11.21.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Ginger Turner, who earned an MS in Management Science and Engineering in 2005, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Houston Chronicle (11.20.2006) |
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| The National Building Museum announces CEE Professor Emeritus Paul Teicholz as the fifth recipient of the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology. The museum is honoring Teicholz for his development and integration of information technology into the building and design industries. National Building Museum (11.20.2006) |
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| Time magazine has named Stickybot, a robot with gecko-inspired feet that can climb straight up plate glass, to its list of the best inventions of 2006. Time Magazine (11.06.2006) |
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| Nokia has opened a new Silicon Valley research center and engaged with Stanford Engineering in a broad research partnership. PC Magazine (11.03.2006) |
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| AA Professor Antony Jameson, a renowned expert on computational fluid dynamics, will receive the prestigious Elmer A. Sperry Award in Reno in January. AIAA (10.31.2006) |
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| Charles Simonyi (PhD 1977 CS), a software executive credited with leading the development of Microsoft Word, will launch into space next March on a 10-day vacation. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10.27.2006) |
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| Stanford's Global Climate and Energy project has awarded $1 million in grants to advanced energy projects, including ones by ChemE and ME professors. GCEP (10.23.2006) |
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| In September 2006, 71 years after the Navy Blimp the Macon plunged into the Pacific, a team of marine researchers, including Stanford engineers, conducted the first comprehensive survey of the airship's final resting place on the floor of Monterey Bay more than 1,000 feet below sea level. Stanford News Service (10.18.2006) |
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| Despite earning a large sum from the sale of YouTube to Google, CS graduate student Jawed Karim is focused on his schoolwork. New York Times (10.12.2006) |
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| MS&E Professor Jim Sweeney will direct a new institute for energy efficiency research endowed with a $30 million gift from alumnus Jay Precourt. Stanford News Service (10.06.2006) |
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| Bioengineering Associate Professor Kwabena Boahen is the third member of the department in the last three years to win a prestigious NIH Director''s Pioneer Award. Stanford Medical Center (09.27.2006) |
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| EE Professor John Cioffi, the leading pioneer of DSL broadband technology, has won the Marconi Prize, one of the top honors in telecommunications. Stanford Engineering (09.27.2006) |
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| ChemE and BioE Professor Jim Swartz is a master of making proteins for all kinds of applications. He recently won an important award for his fundamental work in that area. One application he and his students have recently been working on could result in a new and better way of delivering vaccines. Stanford Engineering (09.27.2006) |
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| AA Associate Professor Claire Tomlin, whose work applies not only to airplanes but also living cells, has won a 2006 MacArthur 'Genius Grant.' MacArthur Foundation (09.19.2006) |
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| Stanford's research direction is one in which 'odd couples' from seemingly unrelated disciplines collaborate to solve important problems such as those in human health and the environment. Quite often, these collaborations involve engineers. SF Chronicle (09.18.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Minoru 'Sam' Araki, former president of Lockheed Missiles and Space, helps lead a recollection of how Stanford and the defence contractor helped seed the growth of Silicon Valley. SF Chronicle (09.15.2006) |
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| ChemE Professor Curt Frank and students are working with medical and bioengineering researchers to develop an artificial cornea. Stanford News Service (09.13.2006) |
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| Ed Boyden, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of BioE professor Karl Deisseroth, has been named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 innovators under 35. Technology Review (09.08.2006) |
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| EE Professor Robert Dutton will receive the 2006 Phil Kaufman Award from the EDA Consortium for his contribution to computer simulations of integrated circuits. EE Times (09.06.2006) |
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| Hispanic Business magazine has included Stanford Engineering among its top 10 graduate schools for hispanics. Hispanic Business (09.05.2006) |
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| Three ME students have developed a device that can turn book pages for an avid reader who is suffering from ALS. San Mateo Daily Journal (09.05.2006) |
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| CS Professor John Mitchell, CS and EE Associate Professor Dan Boneh and their students have won a Horizon Award from Computerworld for developing a browser plug-in that protects people from prevalent e-mail 'phishing' scams. Computerworld (08.21.2006) |
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| U.S. News ranks Stanford Engineering number two (tied with Cal and a hair behind MIT) in listing of engineering programs for undergraduates. U.S. News (08.18.2006) |
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| Forbes featues two robotics projects at Stanford: Stickybot, a collaboration between ME Professor Mark Cutkosky and Cal biologist Bob Full; and Stanley, the autonomous robot car of CS and EE Associate Professor Sebastian Thrun Forbes (08.18.2006) |
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| Gene Alexander, a former research engineer in the biomotion lab of ME Professor Tom Andriacchi, has founded a company based on the lab's markerless motion capture technology OC Register (08.14.2006) |
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| Looking for a great example of female leadership in business and technology? Forbes magazine profiles Judy Estrin (MS EE 1977) who has started many companies, and serves on the board of many others. Forbes (08.14.2006) |
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| A team of Stanford researchers including MSE Assistant Professor Nick Melosh, are working with Chevron to develop 'diamondoids,' a promising nanoscale material. Stanford News Service (08.09.2006) |
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| BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth received a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from President George W. Bush at the White house July 26. MSE Acting Assistant Professor Wendelin Wright also received the honor. The White House (07.26.2006) |
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| Gerald G. Fuller, a professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded the 2006 Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research. Stanford News Service (07.26.2006) |
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| At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit University President John Hennessy, also a CS and EE professor, reflected on topics ranging from the early days of Yahoo! to the university's relationship with government and industry. ZD Net (07.25.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Former Stanford basketball player Debi Gore-Mann (BS 1983 IE) has been named the athletic director at the University of San Francisco. She is the school's first female athletic director SF Chronicle (07.22.2006) |
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| CEE Assistant Professor Alexandria Boehm has co-authored a study with a UCLA colleague estimating that pollution sickens 1.5 million California beachgoers resulting in millions of dollars in costs annually. Associated Press (07.19.2006) |
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| The Times of London reports on CS Assistant Professor Andrew Ng's efforts to build a robot capable of helping around the house. One key chore: building an IKEA bookcase. The New York Times recently cited the project as evidence of a renaissance in the field of Artificial Intelligence. New York Times, London Times (07.18.2006) |
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| In research with hopeful implications for the severely paralyzed, electrical engineering Assistant Professor Krishna Shenoy and his research group have enabled a monkey to control a comptuer with four times the performance anyone has achieved before. KGO (07.12.2006) |
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| Stanford researchers, and colleagues at four other universities, have joined in a new research effort to advance the development of semiconductors based on ''non-classical'' elements. EE Times (07.11.2006) |
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| In a story inspired by the movie The Devil Wears Prada MS&E Professor Bob Sutton offers some insights on the phenomenon of bad bosses. Associated Press (07.06.2006) |
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| Stanley the robot car will spend his summer vacation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. CNET News.com (06.27.2006) |
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| Nanosolar, a company headed by CS alumnus Martin Roscheisen, plans to build the world's largest solar cell plant in the Bay Area. San Jose Mercury News (06.21.2006) |
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| EE Professor Emeritus Thomas Kailath is the 2006 winner of the IEEE's Jack S. Kilby signal processing medal. Indiawest (06.20.2006) |
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| Betty Shanahan, the CEO of the Society of Women in Engineering, offered her advice to help the school break down barriers that have traditionally excluded women from engineering in a speech on campus May 30. A video is available with free registration. Stanford Report (06.14.2006) |
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| EE Professor Yoshio Nishi laid out the future of computer chips for more than 200 colleagues at a conference June 11. EE Times (06.12.2006) |
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| Four graduate students will head to China this month as part of a pilot exchange program with Tsinghua University. Stanford Engineering (06.07.2006) |
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| Electrical engineering postdoctoral researcher Michelle L. Povinelli has won a 2006 Fellowship for Women In Science from cosmetics maker L'Oréal. L'Oreal (06.07.2006) |
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| Every year Stanford Engineering gives Terman Awards not only its top seniors but also the K-12 teachers who got them there. Check out coverage of winners in Colorado and Massachusetts. Rocky Mountain News, (06.01.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Jean-Lou Chameau (MS 1977, PhD 1981 CEE) has been named the eighth president of Caltech. Caltech (05.26.2006) |
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| Holt Ashley, a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics and of mechanical engineering whose methods changed the design of structures from wings to wind turbines, died May 9. He was 83 Stanford News Service (05.24.2006) |
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| ChemE Professor Stacey Bent describes a substantial advance toward artificial implantable retinas in Technology Review magazine. Technology Review (05.23.2006) |
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| Meet Stickybot, the latest nature-inspired robot to come out of the lab of ME Professor Mark Cutkosky. Modeled on a gecko, this robot can climb straight up a glass window. New Scientist (05.23.2006) |
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| CEE Professors Craig Criddle and Peter Kitandis and colleagues are using bacteria to reduce uranium contamination near nuclear weapons labs and mines. Stanford News Service (05.19.2006) |
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| Going on 50 years now, Don Knuth's love for computers (and the Art of programming them) remains deep and strong. Stanford Magazine (05.16.2006) |
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| CEE student Christine George is among 18 nationwide named to the Nissan-WWF Environmental Leadership Program. The program provides opportunities for development, research and financial support to students with great potential for environmental advocacy. Nissan, WWF (05.16.2006) |
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| KGO-TV takes a look at a computer system developed by Bioengineering Professor Charles Taylor that can help predict the outcome of a surgical procedure. KGO-TV (05.12.2006) |
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| How cool is the d.school (the new design institute)? As part of a class this quarter, students are promoting a hip-hop concert on campus. Stanford Daily (05.09.2006) |
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| SF Channel 2 (KTVU) reporter John Fowler reports on how high-tech research on osteoarthritis may lead to the development of a therapeutic shoe. The research is in the lab of ME Professor Tom Andriacchi. KTVU (05.09.2006) |
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| Stanford Engineering will defend its robotic driving title in the next DARPA Grand Challenge. This time ithe race will be on simulated city streets. CNET (05.03.2006) |
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| The Cleveland Browns drafted EE graduate student and nose tackle Babatunde Oshinowo in the sixth round of the NFL draft April 30. Columbus Dispatch (05.01.2006) |
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| Alunmi in the news: Ron Patrick (PhD 1989 ME) has a need for speed so great that he has attached a jet engine to his VW beetle. It's an unusual hobby, but to him 'it's entertainment.' San Francisco Chronicle (04.29.2006) |
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| ME Assistant Professor Wei Cai, part of a team of researchers based at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, have made a major discovery about the strength of crystalline materials (including common metals). Their results appear in the April 27 issue of Nature. Physorg.com (04.28.2006) |
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| Microsoft names CS Assistant Professor Scott Klemmer as a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow, recognizing his work in human-computer interaction. Microsoft (04.26.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Alaska resident Bill Leighty (BS 1966 EE) returns to his Iowa roots with a plan to deliver clean hydrogen fuel via pipeline to power vehicles more sustainably. Des Moines Register (04.23.2006) |
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| From the days of studying the bouyancy of her lollipop to her current work investigating the electrical properties of organic materials, ChemE Associate Professor Zhenan Bao is an explorer extraordinaire. Stanford News Service (04.19.2006) |
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| Two engineering professors, Zhenan Bao (ChemE) and Tim Roughgarden (CS), are among five Stanford faculty members who have won prestigious research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Stanford News Service (04.17.2006) |
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| Thomas Connolly, an ME professor emeritus who lead nuclear research in the department beginning in the late 1950s, died April 3. He was 83. Stanford News Service (04.12.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Airgo Networks has won EE Times magazine's Startup of the Year award. The company was founded by Greg Raleigh (MS 1994, PhD 1999 EE), a former student of EE Professor John Cioffi. EE Times (04.10.2006) |
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| The Stanford Center for Professional Development's Stanford Advanced Project Management program has won the 2005 Distinguished Non-Credit Program Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education. SCPD (04.07.2006) |
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| Four alumni who helped make major advances in the Global Positioning System are joining the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Palo Alto Online (04.04.2006) |
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| New BIO Associate Professor Kwabena Boahen looks to the powerful and efficient human brain as a model for building comptuer chips. San Francisco Chronicle (04.03.2006) |
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| Check out videos of the Computer Science 40th Anniversary. A simple, free registration with the Stanford Center for Professional Development to view online seminars is required. SCPD (03.31.2006) |
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| The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools put Stanford Engineering in second place overall. Five departments and programs have top two rankings as well. US News and World Report (03.31.2006) |
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| In U.S. News and World Report MS&E Professor Bob Sutton and business Professor Jeff Pfeffer discuss the need for executives to base decisions on evidence and logic rather than ideology and fads. They have a new book on the subject, 'Hard Facts, Half-Truths and Total Nonsense.' U.S. News & World Report (03.27.2006) |
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| Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News finds at the CS department 40th anniversary that Stanford is still Silicon Valley's "secret sauce." San Jose Mercury News (03.22.2006) |
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| MSE Professor Michael McGehee and colleagues have developed an ultra-thin plastic that transmits charge with unprecedented speed. The material holds great promise for electronics. Associated Press (03.22.2006) |
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| Catch NOVA's exclusive Web coverage of "The Great Robot Race," the DARPA Grand Challenge of robot cars that Stanford's car, Stanley, won back in October. The TV episode aired March 28 on PBS. PBS (03.16.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Kaoru Yano (MS 1975 EE) has been named president of Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. Associated Press (03.15.2006) |
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| Stanford joins UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara in forming the Western Institute for Nanotechnology, a research partnership focused on 'spintronics,' in which the quantum spin of particles is exploited for computation. San Jose Business Journal (03.09.2006) |
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| Video: Palo Alto Mayor Judy Kleinberg and former Mayor Jim Burch honored the Stanford Racing Team and the Stanford Solar Car Project at City Hall in early March Stanford News Service (03.07.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: The Financial Times profiles Sabeer Bhatia (MS 1993 EE) the prolific entrepreneur best known for co-founding Hotmail. Financial Times (03.07.2006) |
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| Remembered as a prolific electrical engineer and a beloved carillonneur, Professor Emeritus James Angell died Feb. 13. He was 81. Stanford News Service (03.02.2006) |
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| MSE and EE Professor Shan Wang will play a major role in a new center for cancer nanotechnology based at the medical school. San Francisco Business Times (03.01.2006) |
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| CEE Professor emeritus Paul Roberts died Feb. 12. Roberts devoted his career to the protection of natural resources. He was 67 Stanford News Service (03.01.2006) |
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| When a huge burst of gamma rays struck the earth in Dec. 2004 EE professor Umran Inan took notice. In this video he explains what we learned from the blast from space. Stanford News Service (03.01.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Inc. magazine profiles Method, a maker of environmentally friendly household products, co-founded by Adam Lowry (BS 1996 ChemE). Inc. (02.27.2006) |
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| Computer science assistant professor Scott Klemmer told an audience at the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in St. Louis that computer interface design must respect the innately physical nature and capabilities of human beings. Stanford Report (02.21.2006) |
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| Former NASA Ames Director G. Scott Hubbard has been appointed a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering. San Francisco Business Times (02.15.2006) |
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| Stanford and Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services have announced a research partnership focused on security and privacy. Network World (02.14.2006) |
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| EE Professor Arogyaswami J. Paulraj has joined dozens of other Stanford Engineering professors as an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Medical School professor Gary Glover was also elected Feb. 10. Stanford News Service (02.13.2006) |
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| CEE Assistant Professor Ali Boehm and students have been digging at the beach in Orange County, CA, to find out why levels of harmful bacteria follow a lunar cycle. Orange County Register (02.10.2006) |
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| Stanford engineers have discovered why nanotubes are visible in electron microscopes. The research points the way toward new applications of nanotubes as well. Stanford Engineering (02.08.2006) |
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| Alumna and astronaut Ellen Ochoa (MS 1981, PhD 1985 EE) will speak about her career at NASA at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, in Cubberley Auditorium. Stanford Report (02.08.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Christopher K. McGlothlin (BS IE, MS EE 1987) has been named chief information officer at Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza (02.03.2006) |
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| Students in ME 377, the first class of the new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, are finding creative ways (such as a staged accident in White Plaza) to teach bike safety. Stanford Daily (01.31.2006) |
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| Mechanical engineering students are meeting the challenge of Chasing Nature, a reality show on Animal Planet that asks them to create devices that mimic animal abilities. SF Chronicle (01.26.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news (and tending goal): Sami Joe Small (BS 1998 ENG) is an alternate goalie for the Canadian womens hockey team. Hockey Canada (01.26.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: In a Jan 23 lecture, Chris Poland (MS 1974 CEE) described his firm's earthquake retrofitting projects at the Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts and the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building. Stanford News Service (01.25.2006) |
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| CEE students Gregory Shellenbarger and Kirsten Davis joined other Stanford authors in a study showing that groundwater is an important source of nutrients to coral reefs around the world. Stanford News Service (01.20.2006) |
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| Alumni in the news: Aerospace engineer Jessica Jenkins (MS 2001 AA, ENG 2003 AA) recently returned to her Massachusetts high school to inspire the next generation of engineers. Cohasset Mariner (01.12.2006) |
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| EE Associate Professor Howard Zebker uses a radar satellite system orbiting 500 miles up to gather clues about volcanoes and earthquakes. Stanford News Service (01.11.2006) |
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| In the January 2006 Harvard Business Review, MS&E Professor Robert Sutton and business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer advocate a new movement in business: Evidence-based Management. Executives should base decisions on hard evidence and logic but routinely do not, they write. Registration is required but you can read an abstract here. Harvard Business Review (01.10.2006) |
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| The Department of Homeland Security has granted $1.24 million to Stanford, Coverity (a Stanford CS spin-off company), and software giant Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to improve a Coverity tool for source code analysis. CNET News.com (01.10.2006) |
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| In an interview with MS&E Professor Tom Byers at a recent conference on campus, Dean Jim Plummer and MIT's Alice Gast described research that could help solve the world's storage and energy needs, but they acknowledged that acceptance—and funding—can be the most difficult battle. Always On (01.06.2006) |
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| Computer Graphics Magazine looks at how the work of CS Assistant Professor Ron Fedkiw and PhD student Frank Losasso helped Industrial Light and Magic put the fire in the latest Harry Potter movie. Computer Graphics World (01.04.2006) |
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| Wired magazine has named Stanley the robot car the number one robot of all time. Also, CBS News recently took its own up-close look. Wired, CBS News (01.01.2006) |
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| Major universities including Stanford and prominent technology companies have worked out guidelines meant to make collaborating on research easier. SF Chronicle (12.20.2005) |
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| A memorial service for Boyd C. Paulson Jr., the Charles H. Leavell Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford University and longtime advocate for affordable housing, is set for February 7 in Memorial Church. Stanford News Service (12.15.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Alex Aragon is on the PGA Pro Tour, making good on his Stanford golf scholarship, if not the industrial engineering degree he earned in case golf didn't work out. San Diego Union-Tribune (12.13.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Ralph Peterson (MS 1970 CEE), CEO of engineering giant CH2M Hill, has been named Businessperson of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News. Rocky Mountain News (12.09.2005) |
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| CS Assistant Professor Andrew Ng has developed software that lets robots discern distances from a single still image. The innovation should help robots avoid collisions. Stanford News Service (12.05.2005) |
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| CS Assistant Professor Scott Klemmer has developed Butterflynet: the ultimate biology research notebook. The software couples data such as location, time and digital photography with automatic digitization of researchers' handwritten notes. Stanford News Service (12.05.2005) |
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| AA Professor Emeritus Bradford Parkinson, who oversaw development of the Global Positioning System, is profiled in Investors Business Daily for his leadership qualities. Investor's Business Daily (12.05.2005) |
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| For their academic excellence, two Chinese EE students have won an award commemorating Wen-Yuan Pan, an alumnus (PhD 1940 EE) who helped found Taiwan's electronics industry Stanford Daily (11.30.2005) |
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| AA Associate Professor Juan Alonso is one of two Stanford professors serving on NASA's new advisory council. Math Professor R. James Milgram is the other. NASA (11.29.2005) |
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| EE Professor Emeritus Thomas Kailath has been elected to the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame Economic Times (India) (11.28.2005) |
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| EE and applied physics Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto's research in quatum optics earned him the Medal with Purple Ribbon from Emperor Akihito of Japan. Stanford Report (11.21.2005) |
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| Stanford nose tackle and EE masters student Babatunde Oshinowo has been named to the Pac-10 conference all-academic first team for the third consecutive year. Pac 10 conference (11.18.2005) |
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| Kenneth J. Arrow, a professor emeritus of economics and operations research, has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science. Stanford News Service (11.16.2005) |
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| CEE Associate Professor Alfred Spormann and ME Professor Fritz Prinz are looking to biological sources for alternative energy. KGO-TV in San Francisco took a look at projects around campus sponsored by the university Global Climate and Energy Project. KGO-TV (11.16.2005) |
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| Researchers in the CS department have developed a camera system that can focus on all depths of field within a photo simultaneously. In other words, everything is in focus, whether it is near or far. Times of London (11.10.2005) |
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| The new architectural design major in the CEE department blends art and science. Stanford Report (11.09.2005) |
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| The Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering program will take a look Nov. 9, 10, 13, 15 at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project, the largest active public works project in America today. Alumnus Jim Ruddell (BS 1977 CEE) is managing the construction. See local listings or follow this link. Discovery Channel (11.08.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Kuntoro Mangkusubroto (MS 1977 IE, CEE) is overseeing the rebuilding of northern Sumatra, devastated in the tsunami last year. Stanford Magazine (11.05.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Electronic Business magazine has named Morris Chang (PhD 1964 EE), founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., one of the 10 most influential executives in the electronics industry. Electronic Business (11.01.2005) |
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| James Harris and David A.B. Miller, both EE professors, have invented a silicon germanium modulator -- a major advance that brings optical communications to the level of silicon chips. Red Herring (10.27.2005) |
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| Klystron tube pioneer and former EE and applied physics Professor Marvin Chodorow died Oct. 17. He was 92. LA Times (10.27.2005) |
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| Discovery shuttle commander and Stanford Engineering alumna Eileen Collins regaled a campus audience with tales of the mission Oct. 21. Stanford News Service (10.26.2005) |
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| Bioengineering Department Chair and ME professor Scott Delp is among a group of researchers at six universities who will participate in a new Stanford-led center on protein folding. Stanford News Service (10.26.2005) |
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| EE Professors James Gibbons and Yoshio Nishi are part of a team of Stanford scientists that have achieved a breakthrough in producing carbon nanotubes. Stanford News Service (10.25.2005) |
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| CEE Professor Martin Fischer and environmental design expert William McDonough surprised students Oct. 20 with a guest lecture including movie star Cameron Diaz. CBS 5 (10.21.2005) |
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| San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Langberg goes deep inside Stanley, the artificially intelligent car that drove itself through a 132-mile off-road desert course Oct. 8 Mercury News (10.17.2005) |
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| The Stanford Center for Professional Development has won the 21st Century Best Practices Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association for innovations in online delivery of classes to working professionals. SCPD (10.17.2005) |
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| With all the data gathered from Gravity Probe B, Stanford scientists are now beginning to pore over the data to see if Einstein was really right about gravity. Stanford News Service (10.12.2005) |
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| ME Associate Professors Chris Gerdes and Chris Edwards have teamed up with GM and Bosch to make combustion engines more efficient and a lot cleaner. Stanford News Service (10.12.2005) |
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| Stanford Engineering is proud to announce the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, a program that will bring faculty and students from many disciplines together to solve complex problems by designing products, environments and services. Stanford News Service (10.12.2005) |
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| The Stanford Racing Team won the Oct. 8 DARPA Grand Challenge, a race of robotic cars who had to drive themselves through a rugged 132-mile desert course. The Stanford Engineering-based team has made robotics history. Stanford Engineering (10.10.2005) |
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| Stanley, the autonomous robotic car, has made it to the finals at the DARPA Grand Challenge race Oct. 8. KTVU news in the Bay Area has the story and an interview with computer science Professor Emeritus Vaughan Pratt. KTVU (10.05.2005) |
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| On Oct 5 top Stanford nanotechnology reserachers and industry leaders will unveil the newly renovated Stanford Nanocharacterization Lab, which is now a hub that will facilitate collaboration as well as deep investigations of materials at scales of less than a billionth of a meter. Stanford Engineering (10.04.2005) |
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| The National Institutes of Health have given bioengineering and psychiatry assistant professor Karl Deisseroth a 2005 Pioneer Award for his research into neural circuitry. NIH (09.29.2005) |
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| Alan Manne, a professor emeritus of operations research, died Sep. 27. He was an advocate for finding less environmentally harmful means of delivering energy to society, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. SF Chronicle (09.29.2005) |
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| Since the beginning of summer students in the Stanford chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World have been helping install a drainage system on the tsunami-ravaged Andaman Islands off the coast of India. Stanford Daily (09.28.2005) |
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| Artificial Intelligence experts including computer science Emeritus Professors John McCarthy and Ed Feigenbaum debated what we've learned from teaching comptuers to play chess at a recent panel at the Computer History Museum. LA Times (09.26.2005) |
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| CS Associate Professor Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, has been named to this year's 'Brilliant 10' by Popular Science magazine. Popular Science (09.26.2005) |
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| The university has launched a new research center, dedicated to advancing the Global Positioning System to provide position information with centimeter accuracy, anytime, anywhere. Introducing the Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time. Stanford Engineering (09.19.2005) |
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| Relatively inexpensive 'Cubesat' satellites are enabling a whole category of newcomers, from small companies to students in developing nations, into the space race. AA Professor Bob Twiggs helped get the program started. CNET (09.14.2005) |
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| New York Times reporter John Markoff recently took a ride in Stanley, the Stanford Racing Team's autonomous robotic car. Here's what he found. Registration is required. You can see a summary or go direct to the story. New York Times (09.14.2005) |
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| Electrical engineering Professor John Cioffi, dubbed the father of DSL, has a new technology and startup company devoted to even faster data transmission over copper lines. Light Reading (09.13.2005) |
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| Join us for the Alumni Job Fair, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the South San Francisco Conference Center. The fair features technical jobs and career seminars. It is free to all Stanford Alumni. Stanford Engineering (09.09.2005) |
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| ME Professor Ronald Hanson is working with Nissan Motor Co. on measurement systems that could lead to more efficient engines with lower emissions. Auto Channel (09.08.2005) |
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| Stanford Engineering offers its heartfelt sympathy to victims of Katrina. We are committed to helping students displaced by the storm by offering the opportunity for students to apply to attend as guests this quarter. Stanford Engineering (09.07.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Three women, two in the product design program and one pursuing her PhD in mechanical engineering, forged a productive friendship in Stanford Engineering's Product Realization Lab. Their jewelry company RedStart Design, now has a piece in the Museum of Modern Art Businessweek (09.06.2005) |
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| George Candea, a CS graduate student, has been named of of the 35 top innovators under 35 by Technology Review magazine. Candea works on issues involving software dependability. EE alumni Parham Aarabi (PhD 2001) and Matt Rabinowitz (PhD 2001) are also on the list. Businesswire (09.06.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: General engineering alumnus Charles C. Gates (BA 1943) died Aug. 28. The billionaire had built the family rubber business in to an empire. Honolulu Star-Bulletin (09.01.2005) |
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| Oceans warmed by rising global temperatures could contribute to the formation of stronger hurricanes and more of them, says Mark Jacobson, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. View his comments to CBS 5 TV in San Francisco. CBS 5 TV (08.29.2005) |
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| Stanford Engineering has launched an MS degree program in Aeronautics and Astronautics available through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. The courses will be offered online and on TV in the Bay Area. SCPD (08.29.2005) |
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| Researchers in the Chemistry and EE departments have greatly improved the optical mismatch between nanoscale objects and light by creating the bowtie nanoantenna, a device that can compress ordinary light waves into an intense optical spot only 20 nanometers wide. Stanford News Service (08.25.2005) |
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| ChemE department Chair Curtis Frank and colleagues from other universities will collaborate to develop artificial cell membranes. Stanford Report (08.24.2005) |
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| Four ME graduate students will star in the premiere of Chasing Nature, a new reality show on Animal Planet this fall. The students had to make something mechanical to mimic an animal ability. Stanford Report (08.24.2005) |
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| Amelia Software, a non-profit founded by CS student Clara Shih, is holding a technology and literacy camp for kids in Accra, a city in the West African nation of Ghana, this summer. The group involves many engineering students and faculty. Home Page Ghana (08.22.2005) |
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| General Motors, Bosch, and Stanford Engineers led by ME assistant professor Chris Gerdes are embarking on a $2.5 million research effort to improve gasoline engine efficiency and reduce harmful emissions. GM (08.16.2005) |
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| William Perry, professor of management science and engineering and a former secretary of defense, wins Air Force Association Lifetime Achievement award Air Force Association (08.15.2005) |
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| The presence of harmful bacteria along southern California beaches is highest during spring tides, those that correspond with new and full moons, according to a new study by civil and environmental engineering Assistant Professor Ali Boehm. Scripps Howard wire (08.12.2005) |
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| The Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford has awarded grants for five projects aiming at finding cleaner energy sources. Three projects involve a total of 10 Stanford Engineering professors. GCEP (08.11.2005) |
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| For designing a treatment for deadly cerebral aneurysms, a group of students led by bioengineering department co-chair Paul Yock has won the first Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Award of the Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. SF Examiner (08.10.2005) |
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| Stanford professors and students, including mechanical engineering assistant professor Chris Gerdes, are helping soup up -- or, pimp -- a golf cart as part of a tutoring program for kids in East Palo Alto. Monterey County Herald (08.07.2005) |
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| Check out Spinybot, an invention of ME Professor Mark Cutkosky and two PhD students. The robot can climb straight up walls using tiny spines on its feet to give it an amazing grip. Discovery Channel (08.05.2005) |
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| Chemical engineering department chair Curt Frank offered his advice to Korean academics on effective intellectual property management. Korea Herald (08.02.2005) |
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| Amara Engel, 6, of Chatham, NY, can hear with the assistance of a noise-filtering necklace designed by electrical engineering Professor Bernard Widrow. Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.) (07.30.2005) |
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| Vint Cerf, known as a ''father of the Internet,'' addressed a wide variety of issues with eloquence, authority and clarity in his keynote speech at the Summer Forum July 28. Here is CNET's coverage. CNET (07.28.2005) |
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| The Stanford solar car finished ninth overall in the North American Solar Challenge but first in the subcategory of stock cars, which is the group that hewed closest to the contest rules and specifications. Stanford beat out eight other stock cars in the overall field of 20. American Solar Challenge (07.27.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Eileen Collins, who holds an MS in operations research (1986), and Steve Robinson, who holds an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering (1985, 1990), returned the space shuttle Discovery to flight and then safely back to earth. NASA (07.26.2005) |
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| Mechanical engineering Professor David Kelley talks with Businessweek about the new design institute and how it can help students and companies learn new ways to be creative and innovative. Businessweek (07.25.2005) |
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| Management science and engineering Professor Bob Sutton says CEOs often must appear more decisive than they can really be. Also, the bigger the company, the less control the CEO can have. Computerworld (07.22.2005) |
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| Chemical engineering professor Jim Swartz has found soil microbes that, when exposed to sunlight, will extract hydrogen from water. Hydrogen could be used to power environmentally benign fuel cell cars. Dean Jim Plummer described the research at the AlwaysOn conference on the Stanford Campus July 21. CNET (07.21.2005) |
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| Civil and environmental engineering Professor Stephen Monismith is in the undersea lab Aquarius, leading a research team studying nutrients along a reef in the Florida Keys. Associated Press (07.20.2005) |
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| Stanford Engineering Dean Jim Plummer appointed to Intel's board of directors. Intel Corp. (07.20.2005) |
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| VMware, a company founded by CS Professor Mandel Rosenblum, plans to build a 460,000-square-foot headquarters for 1,400 employees in Palo Alto. San Jose Business Journal (07.18.2005) |
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| Stanley, the autonomous robot car designed to win a 170-mile desert race this October, is making great progress. CNET has an update on how it is going. CNET (07.18.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Glover Ferguson, who holds a MS in industrial engineering ('74) from Stanford, is chief scientist at the business consultancy Accenture. In his labs, he says, scientists don't invent technology, they invent applications. Financial Times (UK) (07.13.2005) |
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| Alumni looking to brush up their resume or career fair skills can come to this free event on campus July 19, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.. School of Engineering (07.13.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: MIT's new provost, Rafael Reif, is a Stanford electrical engineering grad (PhD 1979). Boston Business Journal (07.13.2005) |
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| The Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects in the CEE department is helping the construction industry gear up to accommodate another billion people in the (fast) developing world. Engineering News-Record (07.11.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Four Stanford Engineering graduates are big players in the world of cell phone games with their company Centerscore. Stanford Magazine (07.05.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Aeronautics and Astronautics alumna Jennifer Marie Rocca (MS 00) is the launch activity lead on NASA''s Deep Impact mission, which scored a direct hit on a comet July 3. Rocca is quoted in the S.F. Chronicle's coverage. A NASA interview with her is here. SF Chronicle, NASA (07.05.2005) |
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| ME doctoral student James Joseph 'Joe' Wagner is hitting back at spammers one by one. Wired News contributor Adam L. Penenberg is cheering him on. Wired News (06.30.2005) |
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| Former astronaut and EE professor Owen Garriott named 'eminent member' of Eta Kappa Nu, the computer and electrical engineering honor society. Eta Kappa Nu (06.28.2005) |
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| CS Assistant Professor Ron Fedkiw's digital animation techniques ensured realistic explosion physics and space lizard skin in Revenge of the Sith San Jose Mercury News (06.26.2005) |
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| Widespread use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and wind-powered hydrogen production could save thousands of lives, argue CEE Associate Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and co-authors in Science. Read about it here. Stanford News Service (06.24.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: USAF Gen. Bernard Scrhiever, who earned an MS at Stanford in aeronautical engineering in 1942, was essential to the Air Force's development of its space program and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Washington Post (06.23.2005) |
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| CS Professor David Dill testified on paperless e-voting June 21 before the U.S. Senate''s committee on Rules and Administration. VerifiedVoting.org (06.21.2005) |
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| Games inspire new programming techniques for artificial intelligence programming, say Michael Genesereth, CS professor with the Stanford Logic Group, and Nathaniel Love, a CS doctoral student. Stanford News Service (06.20.2005) |
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| Alumni in the News: Martin Roscheisen, who holds a PhD and and MS in computer science from Stanford, is CEO of Nanosolar, a cutting-edge solar energy company profiled in Technology Review magazine. Technology Review (06.15.2005) |
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| Graduate engineering students working with Thomas Andriacchi, professor of mechanical engineering and orthopedic surgery, have developed a "smart" ankle brace for preventing falls among the elderly Stanford Report (06.15.2005) |
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| CS and EE Associate Professor Mark Levoy is helping Google capture panoramic digital images of the streets of San Francisco. New Scientist (06.14.2005) |
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| National Public Radio calls on CEE Professor James Leckie to explain the environmental context for a new San Francisco law requiring the city to purchase only products with minimal health risks. NPR (06.14.2005) |
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| The Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award goes to seniors in the top five percent of their class academically and the high school teacher they nominate to share their honor. School of Engineering (06.13.2005) |
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| Apple, Pixar CEO Steve Jobs gave a very personal address to Stanford's 114th commencement June 12. Stanford Report (06.12.2005) |
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| Wei Cai, a mechanical engineering assistant professor, went to the White House in June to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab (06.10.2005) |
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| Electrical engineering students show off wireless projects Stanford Report (06.08.2005) |
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| Thousands of professional engineers have taken classes over the last 50 years through the Honors Cooperative Program offered by the school's Stanford Center for Professional Development. Stanford Report (06.08.2005) |
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| Stanley makes the semis: The autonomous, robotic car developed by the school and supporters, has advanced to the next round in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a race of such cars this October. Associated Press (06.07.2005) |
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| Operations research Professor Emeritus Alan Manne is training with his horse, Sharky, for a dressage competition. Read a profile of Manne in the San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle (06.03.2005) |
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| An electrical engineering researcher, Pradeep Sen, and his colleagues have developed a clever system that can see the face of a playing card (or other object) even when the face points away from the camera's direct line of sight. Technology Research News (06.01.2005) |
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| Fast Company profiles twins George and John Kembel, both mechanical engineering alumni. Both studied design and George is now executive director of the Stanford Institute of Design. Fast Company (06.01.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Alice Wu has a new movie. Wu, who holds a BS and MS in computer science, wrote and directed Saving Face, a romantic comedy now playing. LA Times (05.27.2005) |
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| Students win seed capital for a hearing aid noise filter and for turning coal combustion emissions into marketable byproducts. Red Herring (05.26.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Trong Bui (PhD AA) named a 2005 NASA Administrator''s Fellow. He will teach engineering at two So. California colleges. NASA (05.24.2005) |
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| Chip technology firm Rambus Inc. names co-founder Mark Horowitz, an EE and CS professor, as its chief scientist. EE Times (05.24.2005) |
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| U.S. News and World Report this year singled out Stanford Engineering for a look at the need to increase the number and percentage of female engineering students and faculty. U.S. News & World Report (05.23.2005) |
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| George Dantzig, inventor of linear programming and MS&E emeritus professor, dies at age 90. LA Times (05.22.2005) |
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| Meet Stanley, Stanford''s autonomous robotic car and its entry into the DARPA grand challenge, a 175-mile race of self-driving cars this October. San Jose Mercury News (05.19.2005) |
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| CEE Associate Professor Mark Jacobson and Consulting Professor Cristina Archer have created a global wind map that reveals the best places to site wind turbines. Guardian Unlimited (UK) (05.19.2005) |
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| Craig Barrett, former Materials Science and Engineering professor, moves from CEO to chairman at Intel. Contra Costa Times (05.18.2005) |
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| Dean predicts success in research leadership in the annual State of the School address. Stanford Report (05.18.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Chip maker Atiq Raza (MS MSE) stays poised in a shifting industry. EE Times (05.16.2005) |
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| John Markoff, author of What the Dormouse Said talks to NPR's Marketplace about the counterculture roots of the personal computer in computing labs at Stanford. NPR -- Marketplace (05.13.2005) |
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| Head of HP research: "There’s no better time to be an inventor and entrepreneur." Stanford Daily (05.13.2005) |
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| Stanford Center for Design Research, headed by ME Professor Larry Leifer, teams up with Volkswagen Automotive University. Stanford Daily (05.12.2005) |
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| Stanford 's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, won NSBE''s most distinguished chapter award for the second year in a row. Stanford students also won an NSBE community service award. Stanford Report (05.11.2005) |
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| Airport fingerprint-checking system flawed, according to study by Manas Baveja, an Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering PhD student, and business school professor Lawrence Wein. San Jose Business Journal (05.10.2005) |
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| Engineering means business at EDAY '05. Catch up to the fast pace of technology-driven change in business and public policy while celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Department of Management Science & Engineering. Stanford Report (05.09.2005) |
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| Materials science and engineering Professor Emeritus Robert S. Feigelson helps long-forgotten music be heard. Registration is required but here are a summary and link. San Jose Mercury News (05.08.2005) |
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| Electrical engineering Associate Professor Thomas Lee's company packs memory on to a chip like no other. The New York Times/CNET (05.08.2005) |
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| The university at large and Stanford Engineering in particular, are delving into nanoscience and nanotechnology in a big way. Stanford Magazine (05.06.2005) |
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| Science magazine has a positive review of The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, a fun and informative new book co-authored by CEE Associate Professor Craig Criddle. Registration is required but a summary and link are here. Science (05.06.2005) |
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| Electrical engineering Professor Leonid Kazovsky suggests standards for the next generation of fiberoptic Metropolitan Area Networks Stanford Report (05.04.2005) |
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| Engineers discuss the importance of technology in reconstruction after the December 2004 tsunami. Stanford Report (04.27.2005) |
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| USA Today profiles astronaut Steve Robinson, who holds an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford USA Today (04.27.2005) |
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| Carol Lovell, administrative associate in School of Engineering, dies Stanford Report (04.27.2005) |
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| Mechanical engineering Professor Emeritus Robert Eustis founds new furniture design company. Furniture World Magazine (04.25.2005) |
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| The student-run Stanford Solar Car Project is getting geared up for the North American Solar Challenge in July, with the help of sponsors such as software maker DP Technology DP Technology press release (04.22.2005) |
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| MS&E Professor and former defense secretary William Perry says IT vital to defense San Francisco Chronicle (04.22.2005) |
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| Car design, archaeology, funding and family were under discussion at a two-day conference of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Stanford Report (04.20.2005) |
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| CEO speakers from Dolby Labs, Synopsys set for AeA/Stanford Executive Institute this summer. Business Wire (04.20.2005) |
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| An editorial in the San Jose Mercury News regarding federal research funding quotes Dean Jim Plummer. Registration is required but a summary and link are here San Jose Mercury News (04.17.2005) |
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| U.S. Department of Defense awards fellowships to eight engineering graduate students. Stanford receives 15 fellowships in all. American Society for Engineering Education (04.14.2005) |
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| Stanford joins in a computer security consortium headed by UC Berkeley. Stanford also joins a UC Santa Cruz study of wireless networks. S.F. Chronicle/Science Daily (04.12.2005) |
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| Malaysian prodigy has his heart set on Stanford to study bioengineering The Star Online (04.12.2005) |
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| In the fifth annual John A. Blume Distinguished Lecture, Jeremy Isenberg spoke on civil engineering and homeland security Stanford Daily (04.08.2005) |
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| Electrical engineering Assistant Professor Shanui Fan, applied physics graduate student Mehmet Fatih Yanik engineer light pulses to boost communications Technology Research News (04.08.2005) |
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| Technology licensed from bioengineering Professor Stephen Quake powers a DNA sequencing system under development by Helicos BioSciences. Technology Review (04.04.2005) |
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| Student-run class to help tsunami victims with fresh water Stanford Report (04.04.2005) |
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| President Hennessy reviews last five years in Academic Council address Stanford Daily (04.01.2005) |
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| Two Stanford engineers named to Pac-10 All-Academic wrestling second team Pacific-10 (03.31.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Evite, founded by two CS alumni in 1997, manages invitations for more than 200,000 events in a typical month. Wired News (03.31.2005) |
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| Trees of Stanford and Environs, written by electrical engineering Professor Emeritus Ronald Bracewell, catalogs 350 species on campus.
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| Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering Chris Gerdes' car design seeks to prevent errant lane changes. Stanford Magazine (03.28.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Thomas Riley (BS MS&E 72) serves as U.S. Ambassador to Morocco.
San Francisco Chronicle (03.27.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Sandra K. Johnson (MS EE) is a rising star at IBM.
Baltimore Times (03.24.2005) |
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| A chat with electrical engineering junior and water polo star Nancy El-Sakkary. gostanford.com (03.23.2005) |
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| Computer Science Professor Rajeev Motwani reflects on academia and the burst of the Internet bubble.
Silicon India (03.22.2005) |
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| Technology Review's April issue has a bug-sized blurb on mechanical engineering Professor Mark R. Cutkosky''s roach-like robot, SpinyBotII. Technology Review (03.18.2005) |
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| Stanford announces new online certificate in designing secure software SCPD (03.15.2005) |
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| Time profiles mechanical engineeering Professor David Kelley, design institute. Time Magazine (03.14.2005) |
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| NPR profiles computer science Professor Emeritus Donald Knuth. National Public Radio (03.14.2005) |
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| Hoping to speed drug development, Chemical engineer Camilla Kao explores how bacteria make antibiotics Stanford Press (03.11.2005) |
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| Popular Science gives Stanford a lot of credit for San Jose being the #1 city for tech jobs Popular Science (03.09.2005) |
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| Alumni in the News: Eric Horvitz explores applications of artificial intelligence Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter (03.07.2005) |
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| Professor David Kelley accepts design education award in London IDEO Press Release (03.02.2005) |
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| Green Dorm Project aims to bring eco-friendly dorm to campus Stanford Daily (03.01.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: Ten years ago, Yang and Filo founded Yahoo! San Francisco Chronicle (02.28.2005) |
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| Alumni in the news: A pre-flight interview with shuttle astronaut Steve Robinson, who holds an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford NASA Press Release (02.25.2005) |
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| Watch a video about the recent on-campus test ''flight'' of a pterosaur replica. Stanford News Service (02.24.2005) |
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| Engineer’s computer model may help surgeons predict outcomes Stanford School of Medicine Press Release (02.21.2005) |
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| Faculty including Dean Plummer sign letter defending women in science. Letter in Science (02.18.2005) |
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| Former engineering professor Vinton Cerf shares top computing prize Press Release (02.16.2005) |
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| Five Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Engineering Stanford Report (02.16.2005) |
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| Global Climate and Energy Project awards $9 million for research Press Release (02.14.2005) |
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| New Science and engineering quad planned Stanford Report (02.09.2005) |
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| No evidence of innate gender differences in math and science, scholars assert Stanford Report (02.09.2005) |
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| Stanford named regional center for terrorism research Stanford Report (02.07.2005) |
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| Stanford Announces Online MS in Computational and Mathematical Engineering SCPD (02.02.2005) |
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| Energy reform: Can it happen under the Hummer governor? Stanford Report (01.26.2005) |
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| SLAC's new lensless X-ray holography technique opens door to nanoscale world Stanford Report (01.20.2005) |
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| Stanford Institute for the Environment announces call for research proposals Stanford Report (01.19.2005) |
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| 2004 | |
| Stanford and Google to make library books available online Stanford Report (12.14.2004) |
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| Grade-schoolers give robot rock-star reception SiliconValley.com (12.03.2004) |
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| Multidisciplinary center tackles issues of sustainable construction around globe Stanford Report (11.30.2004) |
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| Thirteen faculty members selected as 2004-05 Terman Fellows Stanford Report (11.17.2004) |
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| Senate approves degree-granting authority for computational math program Stanford Report (11.10.2004) |
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| Newly created institute to study pollutants, one molecule at a time Stanford Report (11.03.2004) |
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| Computer scientists really are engineers, honor society concludes at meeting Stanford Report (11.03.2004) |
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| Biomechanical engineer makes strides toward delaying, preventing knee injury Stanford Report (10.27.2004) |
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| Sustainability Month recognized with four-day environmental conference at Farm Stanford Report (10.20.2004) |
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| Stanford shares $25 million grant to develop new science-of-learning techniques Stanford Report (10.11.2004) |
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| Grant to encourage study of software technology, auto design Stanford Report (10.06.2004) |
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| New Stanford center probes nanoscale material Stanford Report (10.01.2004) |
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| Gravity Probe B mission enters science phase Stanford Report (09.22.2004) |
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| CubeSats: Tiny Spacecraft, big payoffs in Space.com CNN.com (09.10.2004) |
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| Burnt biomass causes short-term global cooling, long-term warming Stanford Report (08.04.2004) |
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| Testing Einstein Theory in the Real Universe Washington Post (07.12.2004) |
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| Mysterious beach closures may be linked to contaminated groundwater, study finds Stanford Report (05.21.2004) |
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| Researchers build a 'black box' astronauts can wear CNN.com (05.13.2004) |
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| Environmental program awards grants Stanford Report (05.12.2004) |
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| Research team nets $6.3 million grant for optical router research Stanford Report (05.12.2004) |
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| Professor helps get voting machines in state decertified Stanford Daily (05.07.2004) |
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| 'Spintronics' promises better computer performance, memory Stanford Report (04.27.2004) |
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| DISK DRIVES: How fast can they go? San Francisco Chronicle (04.26.2004) |
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| T-minus 45 years: Gravity Probe B finally launches Stanford Report (04.21.2004) |
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| Technology speeds up efforts to piece together ancient marble map of Rome Stanford Report (04.19.2004) |
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| CS enrollment plunges in bad economy Stanford Daily (04.07.2004) |
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| Winner: James H. Clark Center, Stanford University San Francisco Business Times (03.26.2004) |
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| Stanford discovery may light the way to faster computers Business Journal (03.09.2004) |
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| New centers at NASA park bring together industry, academy Stanford Report (02.23.2004) |
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| Two professors join ranks of National Academy of Engineering Stanford Report (02.18.2004) |
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| Databases remain susceptible to infiltration, professor says Stanford Report (02.18.2004) |
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| Engineer focuses on how children are exposed to toxic substances Stanford Report (02.18.2004) |
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| Innovating bit by bit Palo Alto Weekly (01.28.2004) |
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| An Ultrasound That Navigates Every Nook and Cranny New York Times (01.15.2004) |
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| Nanotechnology gets boost from National Science Foundation Stanford Report (01.14.2004) |
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