Alumni eNews - December 6, 2011

Peruvian Villagers Shown how to Protect Adobe Buildings from Earthquake Collapse

Students and faculty teach Peruvian villagers to use ‘geomesh’ to retrofit adobe buildings vulnerable to deadly collapse during an earthquake.

Stanford President Hennessy Wins IEEE’s Highest Honor

President John L. Hennessy will receive
the 2012 IEEE Medal of Honor, the technical society’s
highest award, given to individuals for an exceptional
contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields
of interest.

New Lightning-fast, Efficient Nanoscale Data Transmission Developed

Researchers developed a nanoscale light-based device that transmits data
at ultrafast rates while using thousands of times less energy
than current technologies.

E. coli Could Convert Sugar to Biodiesel at ‘an Extraordinary Rate’

Researchers studying how biodiesel can be generated using E. coli as
a catalyst have determined the bacteria have what it takes to
produce high volumes of the fuel. Now they need to figure out
how to tweak its cellular controls to kick it into high gear.

“Wormhole” Connects
Stanford and MIT

Students and faculty from Stanford and MIT can chat, collaborate or even
do lunch, thanks to an innovative communications portal that
connects two university cafes.

Stanford’s John McCarthy, Seminal Figure of Artificial Intelligence is Dead at 84

McCarthy created the term ‘artificial intelligence’ and was a towering figure in computer science at Stanford most of his professional life. In his career, he developed the programming language LISP, played computer chess via telegraph with opponents in Russia and invented computer time-sharing.

Stanford Engineering’s New Online Classes: Hugely Popular and Bursting with Activity

Hundreds of thousands people from around the world are now participating
in Stanford Engineering’s groundbreaking trio of free online courses.

The News Ticker

• Sigrid Close, Aero & Astro assistant professor, received a CAREER Award from The National Science Foundation.
• BioE Associate Professor Karl Deisseroth is the 2011 recipient of the W. Alden Spencer Lecture and Award.
• MS&E Assistant Professor
  Chuck Eesley won an International
  Young Scientist Research Fund award from the National Natural Science
  Foundation of China.
• CS Professor Leo Guibas was named an IEEE Fellow.
• ME Professor Tom Kenny was
  selected to receive the IEEE
  Sensors Council Technical Achievement award.
• EE Professor Pierre Khuri-Yakub was
  awarded the Rayleigh
  Award from the IEEE Ultrasonics Society.
• Ed McCluskey, EE and CS professor emeritus, won the 2012 IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
• EE Professor Emeritus
  Arogyaswami Paulraj
  received two important awards from India: election to the National
  Academy of Sciences, India, as a foreign
  fellow; and the PAN
  IIT Alumni Technology Leadership Award.
• MS&E Associate Professor
  Amin Saberi, one of his PhD students, Shayan
  Gharan, and another collaborator won the best
  paper award for FOCS (Foundations of Computer Science) 2011.

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The Future of Mobile
Internet Japan: Lessons from the 2011 Disaster

Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. 4:15 p.m.
Skilling Auditorium
Tadashi Onodera, Chairman of KDDI Corporation, one of Japan’s leading telecommunications
firms, examines future possibilities for mobile Internet services while reflecting
on lessons learned from the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear
disaster) that hit Japan on 3/11/2011.

Bayesian trees and BDDs: Professor Donald Knuth

Professor Donald Knuth will present his 17th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture on Thurs., Dec. 8 at 6:30 pm in NVIDIA Auditorium in the Huang Engineering Center. The lecture will also be broadcast online as a free webinar. Registration for the webinar required.

Stanford
Social Networking Club: End of the Year Party

Join the Stanford Social Networking (SSN) club on Friday, Dec.
9 at The Patio, 412 Emerson Street in Palo Alto, for drinks and hors d’oeuvres
from 8-10 p.m. Registration
required. Contact Benjamin Reinecke at reinecke@stanford.edu with
any questions.

Local Alumni Clubs

Find your local club and learn about upcoming events near you.

Stanford on iTunes

Find faculty lectures, interviews, events, sports and music and more.

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Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD)

Get this year’s prices on next year’s courses, online and on campus.
Take courses online, anytime or at Stanford in March and September. Register before Dec. 31 and save up to $150.

• Winter 2011-12 Graduate Courses
  Enrollment is now open through Jan. 4, 2012.
• Free Live Webinar
  Positive Intelligence: How to Maximize Potential and Performance
  Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, 10:00 a.m. Pacific. Presented by the
  Stanford Advanced Project Management Program.
• Stanford
  Advanced Project Management Courses & Certificate: Become a
  Stanford Certified Project Manager. Earn PDUs to maintain
  your PMP certification.
• Strategic Decision and Risk Management Courses & Certificate: Learn from Stanford faculty and industry experts. Earn PDUs to maintain your PMP certification.

Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)

• Want to take free entrepreneurship courses from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program? Alumni are invited to sign-up for Technology Entrepreneurship and The Lean LaunchPad being offered in Winter 2012, as part of Stanford’s new online courses initiative.
• STVP is proud to announce the graduation of the latest group of Mayfield Fellows in December. See the outstanding group of 2011 Mayfield Fellows.
• Interested alumni are invited to attend upcoming Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE), being held in February 2012 in Bangkok and Abu Dhabi. REE events bring together leaders and faculty in business, engineering, science and design who are interested in building leading-edge entrepreneurship programs.

Stanford Engineering Everywhere

Ten complete CS and EE courses online for free.

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