In tech, superficial trumps social good Jack Andraka November 11, 2015 1 Comment Apple recently posted a quarterly earning of $51.5 billion, bringing its yearly haul to $234 billion, a startling growth of 28% over last year’s earning. This remarkable success has been enjoyed... Read More »
3D Printing and Raspberry Pi: Why Stanford students should take notice of Microsoft again Nitish Kulkarni May 18, 2015 0 Comments Conventional criticism aside, there’s a lot of reasons why Stanford should be taking the “New Microsoft” (as they call it) in a different light. The company has long been trying to... 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 »
Microsoft is back Raven Jiang January 28, 2015 0 Comments Microsoft’s own investors think that the writing is on the wall and want the company to kill its Xbox, Bing and Surface divisions, essentially completing the transformation of the company into a... Read More »
Microsoft and our virtual future Raven Jiang September 21, 2014 0 Comments It is entirely likely that the analysts are right and Microsoft bought Minecraft just for the short-term goal of shoring up its mobile and gaming platforms. But in either case, the ball is now in... Read More »
Microsoft ex-CEO Steve Ballmer to teach Stanford GSB course in fall Katie Zingheim August 27, 2014 0 Comments Steve Ballmer, ex-CEO of Microsoft, will be teaching a course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in the fall. Ballmer will co-teach a class called "Leading Organizations" along with The... Read More »
Bill and Melinda Gates deliver 2014 Commencement, addressing innovation, optimism, empathy Catherine Zaw June 15, 2014 8 Comments Bill and Melinda Gates shared the podium during Stanford’s first joint Commencement speech — touching upon innovation, optimism and empathy — to the Class of 2014 at Stanford’s 123rd... Read More »
GSB economist uses big data to shake up the Internet Amrutha Dorai August 23, 2013 0 Comments Athey, who has worked with Microsoft to develop new theories on the effect of the Internet on advertising, news consumption and more, is one of the leading experts in the field. Her research on the... Read More »