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Oct. 15, 2012
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Economist Al Roth has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on market design. He shares the prize with Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at UCLA. Roth, a visiting professor who will become a full Stanford faculty member at the start of 2013, is a pioneer in the field of game theory and experimental economics and in their application to the design of new economic institutions.
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As the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court weigh arguments in the closely watched University of Texas affirmative action case, they will consider a "friend of the court" brief filed by Stanford and 13 other universities.
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The second Tanner Lecture on Human Values was devoted to online learning. Computer scientist Daphne Koller, left, one of the scholars who participated in a post-lecture discussion Friday morning, called the trend a "miraculous opportunity."
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A new book club will focus on short masterpieces that "have not earned the readership they deserve," according to English Professor Tobias Wolff, left. The first is William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow.
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