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7 unusual facts about Stanford University


Charles A. Ferguson

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University.

Gilbert Jonas

Born in Brooklyn, Jonas graduated from Stanford University in 1951, and earned a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

Gov. Stanford

The locomotive was retired from regular service on July 20, 1895, then donated to Stanford University; however, it was not delivered to the university until 1899.

Herbert John Shaw

Herbert John Shaw (June 2, 1918 – January 19, 2006) was a professor at Stanford University, and a major inventor in the fields of fiber optic gyroscopes, optical communications, and surface acoustic wave devices.

J. V. Uspensky

Uspensky joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1929-30 and 1930-31 as acting professor of mathematics.

Maclyn McCarty

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, he presciently began his studies in the nascent field of biochemistry, working with James Murray Luck on protein turnover in the liver.

William Woo

In September 1996, Woo became the Lorry I. Lokey visiting professor of professional journalism at Stanford University, a post he held until his death.


25551 Drewhall

It is named after Drew Hall, a Stanford University student who won the IEEE "Change the World" competition in 2009 with Richard Gaster.

Albert J.R. Heck

After a Postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the lab of Richard Zare and Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore) he became a postdoctoral fellow and later lecturer at University of Warwick.

Alberto Carlos Taquini

He also sered as Visiting Professor in prestigious institutions around the world, including: the University of California, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, the University of Milan, the University of San Marcos in Peru, and the University of Chile.

Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian

He studied at Reed College undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Bathroom sex

David O. Sacks and Peter Thiel, in their book The Diversity Myth, noted that at Stanford University, holes were drilled in the walls between toilet stalls in men's bathrooms, specifically in those located in the history department and in the libraries.

Bonnie R. Cohen

She would eventually become an investment consultant to the Stanford University endowment; treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America's Health and Retirement Funds; and senior vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Brad Stephan Gregory

Prior to taking his position at Notre Dame, he was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Camp Kesem

The first Camp Kesem project was founded at Stanford University in 2001 as a project of Hillel at Stanford, a nonprofit serving Jewish students at the University.

Caroline Bruce

Since the Olympics, McAndrew has been a member of the Stanford University women's swim team, specializing in the breaststroke and individual medley events.

College Now Greater Cleveland

A few individuals in the Top 50 Program (as of the 2011-2012 school year) have been accepted to such universities as Harvard and Stanford, showing the success of the program.

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.

Francis Fukuyama

Until July 10, 2010, he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He is now Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and resident in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

George P. Schiavelli

Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Schiavelli received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1970 and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1974.

Gerhard Stäbler

He has resided extensively abroad, including Stanford University in the 1980s and Yonsei University in Seoul in 1988 and has visited Israel and Lebanon repeatedly, writing a chamber cantata Den Toten von Sabra und Chatila to poems by the Palestinian poet Tawfiq Ziad (1982).

IDEO

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of four established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by Stanford University professor David Kelley), London-based Moggridge Associates and San Francisco's ID Two (both founded by British-born Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall).

Industrial robot

In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution.

J.T. Wamelink

Wamelink composed many pieces of music, a number of which are found in the collections of: The Library of Congress, The Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Stanford University, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Washington State University, and the Penn Libraries, among others.

Jennifer L. Lawless

She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003 and her B.A. in from Union College in 1997; both degrees were in political science.

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

Ju-Chin Chu

His eldest son Gilbert Chu is a professor and researcher of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University, while the youngest Morgan Chu, is a partner and the former Co-Managing Partner at the law firm Irell & Manella LLP.

Jussi V. Koivisto

Internationally Jussi V. Koivisto has held Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar assignments at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, U.S.), Tokyo University of International Studies (Japan), University of Klagenfurt (Austria), Canada China Institute, University of Alberta, and Korea Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (Korea).

Kelley O'Hara

Prior to graduating from Stanford, O'Hara played for the Pali Blues of the USL W-League (semi-pro) in the summer of 2009, scoring four goals during her tenure with the club.

Klaus Segbers

As visiting scholar he has worked, amongst others, at Stanford University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Fudan University.

Malcolm Cowley

Cowley taught the Stegner Fellowship graduate class at Stanford University in the fall of 1960; among his students were such future luminaries as Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, and Larry McMurtry.

Mark Talbott

The Talbott Squash Academy, a well-respected summer camp for juniors and adults, was established in 1991, and is currently held at St George's School in Newport, Rhode Island and at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Meyer Friedman

Beginning in the 1970s, Friedman collaborated with Stanford University psychologist Carl E. Thoresen and others in the Recurrent Coronary Prevention Project, which followed 1013 heart attack survivors for 4.5 years to determine effects from altering their coronary-prone (type A) behavior patterns.

Ogonna Nnamani

She has a younger sister, Nji, who played volleyball alongside her at Stanford University and is currently engaged to professional track athlete Russell Wolf Brown.

Panofsky Prize

It was established in 1985 by friends of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, a professor emeritus at Stanford University and by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.

Prokopis Doukas

Born in Athens, Greece in 1963, he has studied electrical engineering (M. Sc. in electronics, telecommunications and networks) at the University of Patras, Greece and music technology at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Ca.

Ramachandra Guha

Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and at Oslo University (Arne Naess chair, 2008), and later at the Indian Institute of Science.

SAP HANA

In 2008, teams from SAP AG working with Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University demonstrated an application architecture for real-time analytics and aggregation, mentioned as "Hasso's New Architecture" in SAP executive Vishal Sikka's blog.

St. Lawrence Quartet

It was founded in 1989 and has served residencies at the Juilliard School, Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Hartt School, and Stanford University.

Tami Gaines

Both Duke University and Stanford University did studies and agreed with this report, that though post-traumatic stress syndrome is usually associated with catastrophic events such as war, parents of prematurely born babies who suffer or who die can suffer PTSS as well.

Ted Schroeder

Schroeder, however, attended college for 4 years, the first two at the University of Southern California (USC), and the last two at Stanford University, while Kramer, apparently, spent only two years at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

Thomas Grogan

Dr. Grogan received a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia, and then continued his education at George Washington University Medical School where he earned his M.D. He later completed a post-doctorate, hematopathology fellowship at Stanford University.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thomas Welton Stanford

Thomas Welton Stanford (1832 - 1918), also known as Welton Stanford, was an American-born Australian businessman, spiritualist and philanthropist, most notably toward Stanford University, which was founded by his older brother Leland Stanford.

Tyler MacNiven

MacNiven first received attention in 1998 when, while a senior at Woodside High School in Woodside, California, he launched a political-style campaign to supplement his application to Stanford University, where he had wanted to go since the seventh grade.

Valery Chalidze

The primary translator of Amerikanskie Federalisti was Gregory Freidin of Stanford, with consultation from Leon Lipson of Yale Law School.

Virtway

Virtway has maintained collaborations through the Índigo Group with University of Oviedo and Stanford University in different research and development projects.

William Hurwitz

He then spent a period at the Harvard University School of Education before attending Stanford University's Medical School.

Xavier Briggs

He later received a BS in engineering from Stanford University, worked with the innovative planning firm of Moore Iacofano Goltsman in Berkeley, CA, and won a Rotary Scholarship to study education and community development in Brazil, living in Salvador, Bahia.

Zulema de la Cruz

Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and Ramón Barce.


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A Spectrum of Infinite Scale

# "Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator" Stanford University, Stanford California

Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr.

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

Anand Rajaraman

He has an MS and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1989).

Anand Veeravagu

He was then accepted to Stanford University where he received his Doctor of Medicine and graduated with a concentration in bioengineering.

Anil Kamath

Originally from Bombay, India, Kamath has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Bombay.

Clean Slate

Clean Slate Program, Stanford University research program which considers "Clean Slate" internet redesign

Daniel Kessler

Daniel P. Kessler, Health policy and finance expert, professor at Stanford University and columnist for The Wall Street Journal

Daniel Weisiger Adams

Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Emmanuel JM Mignot

He was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1993, Professor in 2001 and Director of the Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine in 2011, succeeding William C. Dement.

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

Highwire

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries that produces and hosts scholarly publications online

Jeanne Ruark Hoff

Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born c. 1960 in Mississippi) is a former college basketball player for Stanford University and the mother of Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff.

John P. A. Ioannidis

John P. A. Ioannidis (born 1965 in New York City) is a professor and chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine as well as adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang

He did so in his Lane Medical Lectures, which were delivered at Stanford University in 1951 on October 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12, and later published by Stanford University Press.

Kathryn Moler

She joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1998, and became an Associate in CIFAR's Superconductivity Program (now called the Quantum Materials Program) in 2000.

Leopold Engleitner

They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

Medical Education for South African Blacks

The first Chairman of the Board was Donald Kennedy, then president of Stanford University and former Director of the Federal Food and Drug Administration.

MercadoLibre.com

Marcos Galperin, current CEO, began the company while still in business school at Stanford University.

Monika Piazzesi

Piazzesi received an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn in 1994 and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 2000 .

Monroe Spaght

A named Chair in Chemistry was created in his honor at Stanford University; the incumbent Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry is Edward I. Solomon.

Mount Stanford

In 1911 the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) named a peak in honor of the Leland Stanford, an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University.

Oneirology

The independent and almost simultaneous confirmation of lucid dreaming by Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University and Keith Hearne encouraged further experiments and developments.

Palo Alto University

PAU maintains two prominent doctoral programs in conjunction with Stanford University, often employs its students in Stanford research laboratories, houses prominent faculty members who teach at both institutions, and employs one of Stanford's most famous emeriti professors, Philip Zimbardo.

Photochemical Reflectance Index

The Photochemical Reflectance Index or PRI is a reflectance measurement developed by Dr. John Gamon during his tenure as a postdoctorate fellow supervised by Dr. Christopher Field at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.

Pierre Bourdieu

with Hans Haacke, Free Exchange, Stanford University Press, 1995.

Progressive Initiative

The concept of a special administrative region in southern African is based in the theory of Paul Romer, professor of economics at Stanford University.

Rajini Thiranagama

Sharika is currently living in California, married to the anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen and is teaching at Stanford University.

Robert L. Byer

He currently is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University.

Robert Swain

Robert E. Swain (1875-1961) Chemist and professor at Stanford University

Roger Howe

Roger Thomas Howe, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University

Roger K. Summit

Their eldest child, Jennifer Summit, is professor of English at Stanford University.

Ryan J. Orr

He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2005 from Raymond Levitt, William Richard Scott, and Douglass North (nobel laureate).

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.

Stony Point, New York

Roy Pea (1952–), learning scientist, technology innovator, and Stanford University professor

Stromboidea

Keen, A. Myra 1958; Sea Shells of Tropical West America, Stanford University Press.

Terman

Frederick Terman (engineer; 1900-1982), Provost of Stanford University, credited with establishing Silicon Valley

Thomas Barclay

Thomas Swain Barclay (1892–1993), professor of political science at Stanford University

William Hurlbut

William B. Hurlbut, Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University

William McCandless

Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

William Snow

William Snow (academic), Stanford University professor affiliated with formation of the American Social Health Association