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Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, winner of National Medal of Technology and Innovation. John Hopcroft (Ph.D. 1964 electrical engineering), Turing Award -winning computer scientist. Taylor Howard (B.S. electrical engineering), inventor of the home satellite dish.
Stanford University. / 37.42750°N 122.17000°W / 37.42750; -122.17000. Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and ...
In addition, according to a Stanford alumni survey conducted in 2011, some 39,900 companies founded by Stanford alumni were active, and companies founded by Stanford alumni altogether generated more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and had created 5.4 million jobs, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world (2011).
A pro-Palestinian student group, seen protesting at Stanford this month, encouraged other students to walk out of the university's graduation ceremony on Sunday and instead attend a "People's ...
www .gsb .stanford .edu. The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or simply GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business school in the United States, [4] admitting only about 6% of applicants.
Stanford University plans to immediately suspend students who were among 13 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested Wednesday morning after a brief occupation of the president's office.
The university is one of the most selective in the United States—it ranks third best in the country, according to the QS World University Rankings, and the few students who get picked to study ...
The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 to 555 students. On the university's opening day, Founding President David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: " [Stanford] is hallowed by no traditions; it is hampered by none. Its finger posts all point forward." [1]