Architectural Design Program

What Matters to Me & Why - Sidney and Persis Drell

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Common Room, Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE), Old Union, 3rd Floor  Map

Open to all

Date/Time: 
Wednesday, May 4, 2016. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: 
Common Room, Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE), Old Union, 3rd Floor
Contact Info: 
dianea1@stanford.edu
Admission: 
Free, open to all

Last modified Wed, 2 Mar, 2016 at 14:44

What if we could shape ideas the way a sculptor molds clay?

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Research News

An engineer designs computers that let us think with our hands.

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Designing computers that let us think with our hands
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What if we could shape ideas the way a sculptor molds clay?

Professor Sean Follmer, right, uses a new 3D display in a networked collaboration. | Photo courtesy of TMG MIT Media Lab

        

Computers have been great for crunching numbers. Now Stanford engineers want to make them better tools for creativity. To do this they are liberating data from flat screens by inventing three-dimensional display technologies that would enable us to shape ideas the way a sculptor molds clay.

Last modified Thu, 11 Feb, 2016 at 13:31

Architectural Design Program 10 year Anniversary

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Friday, October 9 - 10, 2015
 

The Architectural Design Program, in its current form, is celebrating its 10 Year Anniversary at Stanford. The program will be gathering over a weekend in the Fall of 2015 to honor this milestone, bringing together alumni, current students, faculty, members of the architectural community and Stanford.

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Friday, October 9, 2015. 5:00 pm - Saturday, October 10, 2015. 11:00 pm
Contact Info: 
alarimer@stanford.edu
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Please RSVP

Last modified Fri, 11 Sep, 2015 at 13:32

Stanford scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

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Research News

Researchers have developed a solar cell made entirely of carbon, an inexpensive substitute for the pricey materials used in conventional solar panels.

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All-Carbon Solar
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Stanford scientists build the first solar cell made entirely of low-cost carbon.

Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today. The results are published in the Oct. 31 online edition of the journal ACS Nano.

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