Gatekeepers of knowledge Raven Jiang November 11, 2015 0 Comments Centuries ago, most literate people belonged to the clergy. By controlling the means of transmitting knowledge, the church--birthplace of modern universities, was the gatekeeper of knowledge and... Read More »
Data neutrality Raven Jiang October 28, 2015 0 Comments “Net neutrality” is about Internet service providers like Comcast abusing their monopoly power as the gatekeepers of the physical network in order to distort the free market. Perhaps it is about... Read More »
Throwback: ‘Stanford’s next big Internet start-up?’ Nitish Kulkarni May 13, 2015 0 Comments The Stanford Daily has always been cautious about startups and their trajectories. Back in 1999, The Daily had the chance to speak to Sergey Brin MS ’95 Ph.D. ’98 and Larry Page M.S.... Read More »
University IT to move Zimbra email, calendar accounts to Office 365 Victor Xu March 30, 2015 2 Comments The University’s IT Services will migrate all Stanford email and calendar accounts currently hosted on Zimbra to Office 365 during the summer. The email and calendar services of most faculty and... Read More »
Net neutrality Aimee Trujillo and Johnathan Bowes November 17, 2014 6 Comments Super Tuesday columnists Johnathan Bowes '15 and Aimee Trujillo '15 take on net neutrality. While there is a broad consensus that the Internet must remain impartial, the two disagree on the political... Read More »
Mentality of progress Raven Jiang October 26, 2014 1 Comment Moore’s Law is limited by the minimum size of a transistor, which in turn is limited by the size of atoms. A 2014 IEEE report concludes that, “Moore’s Law is not dead, but it has clearly reached... Read More »
The Nerds have inherited the Earth Raven Jiang October 19, 2014 1 Comment Today, the nerds seem to have been largely proven right. Tech companies have grown from scrappy underdogs into giant incumbents dominant in the various verticals they enter. Stanford, self-proclaimed... Read More »
Data and the power it bestows Raven Jiang October 12, 2014 0 Comments In the great debate over government surveillance, we forget that for all the failings of the FISA court, there exist formal mechanisms in which government’s temptation to use data it has access to... Read More »
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