University and Kappa Sigma respond to leaked Snapchat CEO emails Joseph Beyda June 3, 2014 4 Comments In emails to members of the Stanford community late last week, Provost John Etchemendy ‘82 and Kappa Sigma resident assistant Hunter Kodama ‘14 condemned the messages sent by Snapchat co-founder... Read More »
Cooliris rises out of Stanford’s Silicon spirit Kylie Jue June 3, 2014 1 Comment Established in 2006 by Soujanya Bhumkar, Austin Shoemaker '05 and their co-founders, Cooliris is a company that focuses on optimizing users’ online and mobile media experiences. Read More »
Researchers use batteries to capture and convert heat energy Peter Samuel Moon May 29, 2014 0 Comments Researchers Seok Woo Lee ‘09 Ph.D. ‘11 and Yi Cui from Stanford and Yuan Yang and Gang Chen from MIT have found a new battery technology that captures waste heat and converts it into electricity,... Read More »
Baidu, Chinese Internet company, hires Stanford artificial intelligence professor Andrew Ng Kylie Jue May 19, 2014 1 Comment On Friday, Chinese Internet company Baidu announced that it had hired Stanford researcher and previous computer science professor Andrew Ng ‘08 as its chief scientist. Ng is also the director of the... Read More »
TEDx Stanford attracts over 700 from Stanford and community Julia Turan May 12, 2014 0 Comments Over 700 people from Stanford and the surrounding community gathered on Saturday for the third annual TEDx Stanford conference. Read More »
Stanford acquires source code for first online world Andrew Vogeley May 8, 2014 0 Comments Stanford University Libraries recently took a trip back to the not-so-distant past when it acquired the original source code for the first online virtual world, MUD1. Read More »
Linguistics professor studies word choice in restaurant reviews Irene Hsu April 30, 2014 0 Comments “Sinful,” “voluptuous” and “sexy” are all words used to describe the food at expensive restaurants while “addicting,” “crack” and “drug” are used to describe the food at... Read More »
Stanford professor creates five-dollar chemistry set Andrew Vogeley April 22, 2014 0 Comments Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Manu Prakash recently created a practical object that, on first impression, might seem to belong in the realm of science fiction: a five-dollar chemistry set that... Read More »
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