Alumni-founded startup delivers local eatery goods to campus Helin Gao September 23, 2013 2 Comments Students can now gain access to food delivery within 45 minutes from over 60 restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View thanks to DoorDash, a Stanford alumni-founded startup hoping to leverage the... Read More »
StartX’s Demo Day featured data-centric apps Nitish Kulkarni September 17, 2013 0 Comments StartX, a Stanford-affiliated startup incubator, held its summer Demo Day event on Sept. 12, showcasing the achievements of its latest startup class to the local public and members of the press. Read More »
Solar Decathlon home nears completion Kylie Jue September 3, 2013 0 Comments With the Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon competition set to take place in early October, Stanford’s entrant into the event has made rapid progress towards completing a net-zero... Read More »
Startup engineering course challenges students with real world problems Klaire Tan July 31, 2013 1 Comment CS 184: Startup Engineering, a course first offered in winter quarter 2012, has moved online this summer as a free offering on Coursera, with enrolled students challenged to apply academic theories to... Read More »
SUNet ID holders advised to change passwords following IT breach Marshall Watkins July 24, 2013 4 Comments All SUNet ID holders have been advised to change their account passwords as a result of “an apparent breach” in Stanford’s information technology infrastructure, according to an email sent to... Read More »
Startup connects people through big data Nitish Kulkarni July 23, 2013 0 Comments “Big Data” could become much more personal in the near future, as Chatous – a startup founded by Stanford alumni and backed by Stanford-affiliated incubator StartX – aims to leverage big data... Read More »
Brown Institute awards media innovation grants Nika Soon-Shiong July 18, 2013 0 Comments The Brown Institute for Media Innovation recently awarded seed funding to eight teams from Stanford and Columbia that aim to utilize technology to transform the production and use of media content, in... Read More »
Startup applies big data to drug development Nitish Kulkarni July 14, 2013 0 Comments NuMedii, a new startup from the Stanford-affiliated incubator StartX, has taken a revolutionary approach to pharmaceutical research and development, using “big data” analysis techniques to... Read More »