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  Stanford University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanford University is governed by a board of trustees, in conjuction with the university president and provosts and the deans of the various schools.
Stanford University is home to the Cantor Art Center museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child.
Stanford is the university behind Folding@home, one of the most widely disseminated distributed computing projects in the life sciences field, allowing hobbyists and enthusiasts to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer processor cycles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford_University   (2092 words)

  
 Bioinformatics at Stanford
At the Stanford Biomedical Informatics (BMI) training program, bioinformatics is included along with clinical informatics as part of a general informatics training program.
The BMI program also offers a coterminal MS degree to Stanford undergraduates, and this is a way for undergraduates to spend approximately one extra year to add an MS to their undergraduate program.
Stanford has a big robotics lab now, and our plan is for a new building that will have a hundred robots walking the corridors, to stimulate the students.
www-helix.stanford.edu /people/altman/bioinformatics.html   (2200 words)

  
 Stanford University Cardinal | On Campus | An Official Athletic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Located in the foothills above the Stanford University Campus, the golf course is consistently rated one of the finest courses in the world.
Throughout the years, Stanford has hosted many intercollegiate and non-collegiate events, including the Stanford Invitational, Pac-10 Championships, NCAA Western Regional, Women's NCAA Championships, USGA Junior Amateur Qualifying, U.S. Open Qualifying and a former Senior PGA Tour event, The Gathering at the Farm (full history).
Stanford University Golf Course, in accordance with state and federal equal access laws including the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), will provide reasonable accommodations to its qualified members and guests with disabilities.
gostanford.collegesports.com /school-bio/stan-golf-course.html   (832 words)

  
 Research - War in Iraq May Torpedo America's Wealth, Says New Stanford Business School Study - Stanford GSB
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — As President Bush rattles the sabers of war, pundits have been quick to sum up the costs of America's war chest.
Yet, new research by Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty members suggests that the experts are missing the mark.
The study, coauthored by Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Andrew Leigh who is a doctoral student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, examines the impact of the looming war on oil prices, the economy, and the stock market.
www.gsb.stanford.edu /news/research/econ_iraqwar.shtml   (663 words)

  
 Deals with Google to accelerate library digitization projects for Stanford, others
In December, Stanford announced that it is one of five libraries cooperating with Google Inc. in a project to make millions of books from their collections available electronically to readers worldwide without charge.
Both Stanford and Google are committed to respecting the rights of publishers and copyright holders of the books scanned, he said.
Stanford has great hope of digitizing all its books eventually, so that each one can be made as accessible and addressable as possible.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/january12/google-0112.html   (1100 words)

  
 The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first set of models below, called "The Stanford Models", were scanned with a Cyberware 3030 MS scanner, with the exception of Lucy, who was scanned with the Stanford Large Statue Scanner, designed for the Digital Michelangelo Project.
The triangulation calculations all the Stanford models except the Happy Buddha and Dragon were performed in hardware by the Cyberware scanner(s).
For all the Stanford models, alignment was done using a modified ICP algorithm, as described in this paper.
graphics.stanford.edu /data/3Dscanrep   (2528 words)

  
 Stanford Report
Stanford also has created a website (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ucomm/labor) that will provide students, staff and the community with information about the labor dispute and the Dec. 12 service workers' strike.
Stanford climatologists and marine and terrestrial scientists count among an international consortium led by the Nature Conservancy that will use the station to study climate change, disappearing coral reefs and invasive species.
At Stanford, 26 undergraduates from Tulane, Loyola, Xavier and Dillard universities attended class over the fall as guest students, while the Law School admitted five graduate students from Tulane Law School.
news-service.stanford.edu   (1383 words)

  
 Introduction to HCI at Stanford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stanford has a long tradition of encouraging research entrepreneurship -- making it easy for faculty to create new entities for sponsored research.
One rapidly growing area of research collaboration at Stanford is with The Program for Bioengineering, Biomedicine and Biosciences at Stanford.
In order to facilitate communication and cooperation across the diversity of HCI-related work at Stanford, we have recently created the Stanford HCI Consortium with core faculty from a number of departments.
www-pcd.stanford.edu /hci.html   (1242 words)

  
 Stanford University Cardinal | An Official Athletic Site
Stanford is coming off a 2005 season in which the Cardinal made its 12th straight postseason appearance, reaching the championship game at the NCAA Waco Regional before falling to host and eventual CWS participant Baylor.
Four of Stanford's six wrestlers advanced to the second session of competition tonight, with Gardner and Blake both winning and earning a spot in tomorrow's third session.
Senior Peter Varellas (Moraga, CA/Campolindo HS) of the Stanford Men's Water Polo Team was selected as the Stanford/MET-Rx Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Nov. 29-Dec. 5.
gostanford.collegesports.com   (385 words)

  
 HBO: Stanford Blatch - Character Bio - Sex and the City
One of Carrie's most loyal friends is Stanford Blatch, her gay galpal and confidante.
Stanford's luck with men is even worse than Carrie's, so he's uniquely qualified to understand her dating dilemmas.
Currently, Stanford is involved with Marcus (a man with abs good enough to grate cheese on), so maybe Stanford has finally found his man.
www.hbo.com /city/cast/character/stanford_blatch.shtml   (180 words)

  
 Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
Welcome to a new year in Stanford’s ongoing rediscovery of the 19th century.
This year’s project is the fourth in a series of reissued works, which began with three Dickens novels, Great Expectations in 2003, A Tale of Two Cities in 2004, and Hard Times in 2005.
Stanford is once again proud to share with you one of the fine holdings of its Special Collections, as well as to invite you to share in Dickens' lively meditation on education and the early years of the industrial north.
dickens.stanford.edu   (351 words)

  
 Stanford Linguistics
The Stanford University Department of Linguistics is a vibrant center of research and teaching, with 20 faculty members, over 40 graduate students, and a lively undergraduate major.
The range of languages studied is diverse and the scope of active research and teaching is broad, including acquisition, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, syntax, typology and variation.
We also have tight links to other departments at Stanford and neighboring universities and to local industrial and non-profit research centers.
www-linguistics.stanford.edu   (107 words)

  
 SU Media X: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy project is developing a full-reference repository that covers every category within the philosophy profession.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy project, begun in 1995 at CSLI, is creating a dynamic online encyclopedia that will encompass the entire philosophy profession.
Several universities around the globe are working with the Stanford researchers to help relieve the burden of the entire world using the Stanford servers to access the Encyclopedia.
mediax.stanford.edu /projects/sep.html   (628 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
Ten years ago, Duke Law Professor Jamie Boyle suggested that the history of the environmental movement offered powerful theoretical and practical lessons to those who sought to recognize the importance of the public domain, and to expose the harms caused by a relentlessly maximalist program of intellectual property expansion.
On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of “cultural environmentalism” over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu   (1279 words)

  
 Inside Bay Area - Stanford Sports
Stanford started to find its stride in its past two games, a 22-point win over Denver and a 24-point win over Princeton.
CARDINAL FACTS: Stanford (4-4) is coming off a 58-34 win over Princeton in the Pete Newell Challenge.
BOSTON — Aja Parham had all 15 of her points and all seven of her rebounds in the second half as No.24 Boston College rallied to defeat No.14 Stanford 77-69 on Wednesday.
www.insidebayarea.com /stanfordsports   (220 words)

  
 HCI at Stanford University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HCI at Stanford University, by Terry Winograd and Scott Klemmer
The Stanford HCI Group is associated with the Stanford Graphics Lab.
Stanford University is creating a new center for design.
hci.stanford.edu   (251 words)

  
 Stanford University School of Medicine
Hank Greely, JD, professor of law and a faculty member at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, will be featured at this grand rounds session for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
In recent days, however, the American researcher involved in the work has asked to have his name removed from the paper, and the lead researcher in South Korea wants the paper withdrawn from the prestigious journal Science under allegations that the data had been faked.
Irving Weissman, MD, director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, comments on the controversy and says it’s too soon to judge how these events will affect the field.
www-med.stanford.edu   (365 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Stanford Cardinal Men's Basketball Clubhouse
Arron Afflalo scored 18 of his 23 points in the first half and No. 11 UCLA beat Stanford 71-54 on Thursday night, snapping two losing streaks to the Cardinal in the Pac-10 opener for both teams.
Stanford guard Dan Grunfeld, right, and forward Taj Finger, left, celebrate in the final minutes of their 58-34...
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sports.espn.go.com /ncaa/clubhouse?collegeId=24&sport=ncb   (120 words)

  
 AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) - Stanford University School of Medicine
The Stanford AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) under the direction of Dr.
Trials are conducted at the Stanford ACTU located at the Stanford Medical Center, as well as at several subunits throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
The Stanford Community Advisory Board provides community input into studies done at Stanford.
actu.stanford.edu   (137 words)

  
 Stanford CS Ed Library
This online library collects education CS material from Stanford courses and distributes them for free.
Much of the current materials existed earlier in rough form as handouts for Stanford CS courses.
Stanford CSE -- home to many Stanford courses and the Nifty Assignments Archive
cslibrary.stanford.edu   (522 words)

  
 Sturrock Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sturrock Group continues to work on Yohkoh data analysis and on understanding the corona and solar magnetic activity in general.
The Stanford Solar Theory group - under the leadership of Professor Peter Sturrock - pursues a vigorous program of research on outstanding solar physics problems involving data analysis, analytical theory, and numerical computation.
Ongoing topics of research include the mechanism of the solar cycle, coronal heating, and the reconstruction of magnetic fields in the solar corona.
hbar.stanford.edu /sturrock   (323 words)

  
 Review of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a Web-based, dynamic reference work, designed to be responsive to new research.
Stanford is the principle site, and several mirror sites are available from the entry page should the Stanford site be unavailable.
Over the course of writing this review, the Stanford site was used exclusively and found to be available and stable on every occasion.
charlestonco.com /review.cfm?id=219   (1224 words)

  
 Stanford University
They have until May 1 to confirm their enrollment.
Winter Break Closure: From December 19 - January 2, Stanford observes a winter break during which most university offices and services are closed.
Discover Sherlock Holmes: In 2006, Stanford will rerelease a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Sherlock Holmes, just as they were originally printed and illustrated in The Strand Magazine.
www.stanford.edu   (175 words)

  
 Stanford Cardinal | NCAA Football at CBS SportsLine.com
STANFORD, Calif.- Walt Harris stood outside Stanford's dejected locker room and visited with representatives from the Fiesta Bowl, the same folks he spent several days getting to know late last season.
STANFORD, Calif.- Notre Dame is playing for big money and a trip to the Bowl Championship Series.
STANFORD, Calif.- Since 1921, the Big Game has been the highlight of nearly every second season at Stanford Stadium.
www.sportsline.com /collegefootball/teams/page/STAN   (245 words)

  
 HUMMINGBIRD Project - Stanford University
The ultimate goal of this research at Stanford is to demonstrate the practicality of using inexpensive robot helicopters to perform tasks without the need for highly trained human operators.
This research will bring the concept of object-based, task-leve l control to a new and exciting application environment.
Stanford was the first and only team in the six years of this competition to successfully retrieve and move a target disk.
sun-valley.stanford.edu /projects/helicopters/helicopters.html   (280 words)

  
 Stanford University Stanford Jobs
Thank you for considering employment opportunities at Stanford University.
We are closed for the winter break and will return on January 3, 2006.
Stanford offers a broad range of courses to enrich the lives of people in the Bay Area.
jobs.stanford.edu   (106 words)

  
 FOXSports.com - COLLEGE FOOTBALL- Stanford Cardinal Team Front
Such was Stanford's season in its first year under Walt Harris.
On one hand, it has to be considered a rousing success, given that Stanford finished in a tie for fourth in the Pac-10 with a 4-4 record, far above preseason projections of ninth or 10th place.
However, as a Pac-10 fan, there is also the annual embitterment of being snubbed by a system that takes not only BCS berths from the conference's clutches, but also pits the league's best against other conferences' also rans.
msn.foxsports.com /cfb/team/86091   (192 words)

  
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Statement of Commitment
The global community of academic philosophers has uniquely collaborated to create, maintain, and expand the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) - an open access work of high quality that serves a broad constituency.
The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC), and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editorial staff have proposed a formula for combining contributions from Stanford University and the academic/library community so as to generate an endowment to make the SEP independent and sustainable into the future.
Yes, my library wants to join SEPIA and invest in future free access to the SEP. I understand that my dues will be used to establish an endowment for the SEP and will also be used as matching funds for the NEH Challenge Grant.
www.solinet.net /survey/sep.htm   (310 words)

  
 Stanford Psychology Department
Stanford has been the leading psychology department among American universities for decades, and it has the added distinction of being the first department within a university to be recognized by the Smithsonian Institution's "The Great Schools" program.
Using state of the art tools, our faculty enhance our teaching mission with interdisciplinary collaboration and a wide range of research interests, including: vision and perception; memory; language and cognition; emotion; and culture and society.
Find out more about the Stanford University Graduate Program in Psychology.
www-psych.stanford.edu   (184 words)

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