Computer Science
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Hennessy explains there are opportunities for spin-off technology from big science government projects which can lead to startups and companies. GPS, which was a successful spin-off of Gravity Pro-B, is an example. He believes that the best environments for discovery and creativity are ones that include a wide range of people with different expertise. Universities are special because they provide the opportunity for people to work toget...more
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Prof. Douglas Rae, Richard S. Ely Professor of Management and Professor of Political Science explores historical factors in faith and globalization and explores the clash of civilizations thesis.
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(February 13, 2009) Vladlen Koltun, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, talks about recent research in virtual worlds and attempts to alleviate the difficulties faced within this field.
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Larry Page and co-founder Sergey Brin started Google while at Stanford working on their PhD's. When the company grew too big to be run from their dorm rooms, the founders made a pitch to a computer science professor who wrote them a $100,000 check on the spot. As of 2002, it is a company of almost 400 people, it handles over 1500 million searches a day, and it has been profitable for over a year.
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Larry Page, co-founder of Google, reveals that basic research and good ideas are the key components to creating a tremendous opportunity in the tech market. A lot of new knowledge is being created all the time and much of it can be used as the foundation for innovation.
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October 19, 2007 lecture by Ed Chi for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Augmented Social Cognition is trying to understand the enhancement of a group of people's ability to remember, think, and reason. This has been taking in the form of many Web 2.0 systems like social networking sites, social tagging systems, blogs, and Wikis.
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October 12, 2007 lecture by Paul Dourish for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Mobility is no longer sufficient; location-tracking is a key feature. However, the introduction of location-based technologies has traditionally been accompanied by a series of concerns over privacy. These discussions, though, adopt a fairly reductive model of privacy, concerned primarily with the trade-offs involved in service provisio...more
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November 30, 2007 lecture by Ted Selker for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). This talk demonstrates that Artificial intelligence can competently improve human interaction with systems and even each other in a myriad of natural scenarios.
