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Stanford University centers and institutes

Index Stanford University centers and institutes

Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. [1]

149 relations: Anacomp, Anita Borg, Annie Zaenen, Anthony Lake, ARPANET, Artificial intelligence, Asia–Pacific Research Center, B. J. Fogg, Bayesian network, Bioinformatics, Bob Sproull, Bradford M. Freeman, Cadence Design Systems, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Center for Health Policy, Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Charles A. Holloway, Charles Babbage Institute, Chris Chafe, Cisco Systems, Clifford Nass, Cognition, Coit D. Blacker, Computational geometry, Computer vision, D. E. Shaw & Co., Dave Eggers, David Adjaye, Decision theory, Dialogue, Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital image processing, Digital waveguide synthesis, Direct current, Distributed computing, Douglas Hofstadter, Elxsi, Employee retention, Eurasia, Executive director, Faculty (division), Fei-Fei Li, Feminist movement, Foonly, Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, Frequency modulation synthesis, Game theory, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ge Wang, ..., Gender, Gender equality, General game playing, Gerhard Casper, GTE, Herbert H. Clark, Hewlett Foundation, History of science, Hoover Institution, Ian Watt, Information, Information retrieval, Interdisciplinarity, Internship, IRCAM, Iris F. Litt, Isabel Allende, Ivan Sag, Joan Bresnan, John Chowning, John Etchemendy, John McCarthy (computer scientist), John Perry (philosopher), Jon Barwise, Jonathan Berger, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Keith Devlin, Knowledge base, Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Laura L. Carstensen, Lauri Karttunen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Les Earnest, Logic, Londa Schiebinger, Louis Christian Mullgardt, Machine learning, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Marilyn Yalom, Marilynne Robinson, Marina Bosi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Mathews, Michael McFaul, Michelle Clayman, Multi-agent system, Myra Strober, National Security Advisor (United States), Natural language, Neural network, Operating system, PARC (company), Patrick Suppes, PDP-10, PDP-6, Planning, Postgraduate education, Presidency of Bill Clinton, Publication, Research, Reuters Digital Vision Program, Richard Wall Lyman, Robotics, Roger Chartier, Ronald Kaplan, Ronald P. Spogli, SAIL (programming language), Santa Cruz Mountains, Sebastian Thrun, Signs (journal), Silicon Valley, Situation semantics, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Solomon Feferman, Spanish Gothic architecture, Speech recognition, SRI International, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford University centers and institutes, Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Startup company, Stephen Jay Gould, Sun Microsystems, Thesis, Tom Byers (professor), Tom Wasow, Ukraine, Unimation, United States Department of Energy, United States National Security Council, University of Chicago Press, WAITS, Wireless sensor network, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Expand index (99 more) »

Anacomp

Anacomp, Inc., is an American company that specializes in computer services and document management.

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Anita Borg

Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American computer scientist.

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Annie Zaenen

Annie Else Zaenen is a consulting professor at Stanford University in linguistics and the main editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology.

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Anthony Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.

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Asia–Pacific Research Center

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia–Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) is part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.

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B. J. Fogg

BJ Fogg is a behavior scientist and author.

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Bayesian network

A Bayesian network, Bayes network, belief network, Bayes(ian) model or probabilistic directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic graphical model (a type of statistical model) that represents a set of variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data.

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Bob Sproull

Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American computer scientist, who worked for Oracle Corporation where he was director of Oracle Labs in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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Bradford M. Freeman

Bradford M. "Brad" Freeman is an American businessman and conservative political fundraiser.

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Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. The company produces software, hardware and silicon structures for designing integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs) and printed circuit boards.

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is a interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology".

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Center for Health Policy, Primary Care and Outcomes Research

The Center for Health Policy (CHP) and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) are jointly administered centers at Stanford University that offer educational programs and conduct research on critical issues of health policy and health care delivery.

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Center for International Security and Cooperation

Formerly the Center for International Security and Arms Control, co-founded by physicist Sidney Drell and political scientist John Lewis, CISAC now stands for the Center for International Security and Cooperation.

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Center for New Music and Audio Technologies

The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) is a multidisciplinary research center within University of California, Berkeley Department of Music.

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Charles A. Holloway

Charles Arthur Holloway has been a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business since 1968 and has been a member of SRI International's board of directors since 2003.

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Charles Babbage Institute

The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935.

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Chris Chafe

Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Clifford Nass

Clifford Ivar Nass (April 3, 1958 – November 2, 2013) was a professor of communication at Stanford University, co-creator of The Media Equation theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction.

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Cognition

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Coit D. Blacker

Dr.

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Computational geometry

Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry.

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Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that deals with how computers can be made for gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos.

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D. E. Shaw & Co.

D.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Adjaye

Sir David Frank Adjaye (born September 1966) is a Ghanaian British architect.

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Decision theory

Decision theory (or the theory of choice) is the study of the reasoning underlying an agent's choices.

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Dialogue

Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Digital image processing

In computer science, Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images.

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Digital waveguide synthesis

Digital waveguide synthesis is the synthesis of audio using a digital waveguide.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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Elxsi

Elxsi (now Tata Elxsi) was a minicomputer manufacturing company established in the late 1970s along with a host of other competitors (Trilogy Systems, Sequent, Convex Computer) in Silicon Valley, USA.

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Employee retention

Employee retention refers to the ability of an organization to retain its employees.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.

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Executive director

An executive director is a chief executive officer (CEO) or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation.

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Faculty (division)

A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas.

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Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), who publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei(), is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

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Feminist movement

The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement, or simply feminism) refers to a series of political campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, all of which fall under the label of feminism and the feminist movement.

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Foonly

Foonly was a short-lived American computer company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers as well as one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities.

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Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies

The Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies (IPS) at Stanford University is a two-year graduate program granting the Master of Arts degree.

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Frequency modulation synthesis

Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform (such as a square, triangle, or sawtooth) called the carrier, is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator frequency that is also in the same or similar audio range, so that a more complex timbre results.

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Game theory

Game theory is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers".

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic.

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Ge Wang

Ge Wang (born November 2, 1977) is a Chinese American musician, computer scientist, app designer, and professor, known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer (CTO), and chief creative officer (CCO) of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps.

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Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

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Gender equality

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.

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General game playing

General game playing (GGP) is the design of artificial intelligence programs to be able to play more than one game successfully.

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Gerhard Casper

Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) was the ninth president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000.

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GTE

GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System.

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Herbert H. Clark

Herbert Herb Clark (born 1940) is a psycholinguist currently serving as Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.

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Hewlett Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank and research institution located at Stanford University in California.

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Ian Watt

Ian Watt (9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.

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Information

Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.

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Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources.

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Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).

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Internship

An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organisation for a limited period of time.

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IRCAM

IRCAM (or Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music in English) is a French institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music.

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Iris F. Litt

Dr.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer.

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Ivan Sag

Ivan Andrew Sag (November 9, 1949 - September 10, 2013) was an American linguist and cognitive scientist.

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Joan Bresnan

Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA (born August 22, 1945) is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University.

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John Chowning

John M. Chowning (born August 22, 1934 in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, inventor, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University and his invention of FM synthesis while there.

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John Etchemendy

John W. Etchemendy (born 1952 in Reno, Nevada) was Stanford University's twelfth Provost.

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John McCarthy (computer scientist)

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.

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John Perry (philosopher)

John R. Perry (born 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.

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Jon Barwise

Kenneth Jon Barwise (June 29, 1942 – March 5, 2000) was an American mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the way that logic is understood and used.

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Jonathan Berger

Jonathan Berger (born, New York, 1954) is an American composer.

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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

The Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) is an independent joint laboratory of Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, founded in 2003 by a gift by Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation.

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Keith Devlin

Keith J. Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer.

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Knowledge base

A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system.

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Laboratory for Advanced Materials

The Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University supports research on advanced materials.

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Laura L. Carstensen

Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr.

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Lauri Karttunen

Lauri Karttunen is an Adjunct Professor in Linguistics at Stanford and an ACL Fellow.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is an American federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

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Les Earnest

Lester Donald Earnest (born December 17, 1930) is a United States computer scientist.

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Logic

Logic (from the logikḗ), originally meaning "the word" or "what is spoken", but coming to mean "thought" or "reason", is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth, and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference.

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Londa Schiebinger

Londa Schiebinger (shē/bing/ǝr; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University.

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Louis Christian Mullgardt

Louis Christian Mullgardt (1866-1942) was an American architect associated with the First Bay Tradition.

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Machine learning

Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in the field of computer science that often uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed.

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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar (born July 27, 1972) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, an academic, and a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations.

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Marilyn Yalom

Marilyn Yalom (born 1932) is a feminist author and historian.

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Marina Bosi

Marina Bosi is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews (born November 13, 1926 in Columbus, Nebraska, USA – April 21, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA) was a pioneer of computer music.

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Michael McFaul

Michael Anthony McFaul (born October 1, 1963) is an American academic who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

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Michelle Clayman

Michelle R. Clayman is chief investment officer of New Amsterdam Partners, LLC, a firm she founded in 1986.

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Multi-agent system

A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.

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Myra Strober

Myra H. Strober (born c. 1940) is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, USA.

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National Security Advisor (United States)

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA) or at times informally termed the NSC Advisor,The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.

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Natural language

In neuropsychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation.

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Neural network

The term neural network was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of neurons.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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PARC (company)

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.

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Patrick Suppes

Patrick Colonel Suppes (March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and educational technology.

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PDP-10

The PDP-10 is a mainframe computer family manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1966 into the 1980s.

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PDP-6

The PDP-6 (Programmed Data Processor-6) was a computer model developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1963.

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Planning

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Presidency of Bill Clinton

The presidency of Bill Clinton began at noon EST on January 20, 1993, when Bill Clinton was inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2001.

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Publication

To publish is to make content available to the general public.

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Research

Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.

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Reuters Digital Vision Program

Funded by the Reuters Foundation, the Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) encouraged innovative applications of computing and communications in the developing world.

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Richard Wall Lyman

Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an American educator, historian, and professor.

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Robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others.

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Roger Chartier

Roger Chartier, born on December 9, 1945 in Lyon, is a French historian and historiographer who is part of the Annales school.

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Ronald Kaplan

Ronald M. Kaplan (born 1946) has served as a Vice President at Amazon.com and Chief Scientist for Amazon Search (A9.com).

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Ronald P. Spogli

Ronald P. Spogli (born 1948) is an American venture capitalist and politician.

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SAIL (programming language)

SAIL, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull of the Stanford AI Lab in 1970.

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Santa Cruz Mountains

The Santa Cruz Mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are a mountain range in central and northern California, United States.

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Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany.

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Signs (journal)

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is a peer-reviewed feminist academic journal.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.

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Situation semantics

Situation semantics, pioneered by Jon Barwise and John Perry in the early 1980s, attempts to provide a solid theoretical foundation for reasoning about common-sense and real world situations, typically in the context of theoretical linguistics, philosophy, or applied natural language processing,.

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and located in Menlo Park, California.

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Solomon Feferman

Solomon Feferman (December 13, 1928 – July 26, 2016) was an American philosopher and mathematician with works in mathematical logic.

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Spanish Gothic architecture

Spanish Gothic architecture is the style of architecture prevalent in Spain in the Late Medieval period.

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Speech recognition

Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers.

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SRI International

SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University in Stanford, California.

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Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is a nonpartisan economic research institution housed at Stanford University.

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Stanford PULSE Institute

The PULSE Institute (PULSE) is an independent laboratory of Stanford University, founded in 2005 for the purpose of advancing research in ultrafast science, with particular emphasis on research using the Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanford University centers and institutes

Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics.

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Stanford University School of Engineering

Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University.

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment serves as Stanford University’s hub for faculty for environmental studies.

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Startup company

A startup company (startup or start-up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around a product, service, process or a platform.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Thesis

A thesis or dissertation is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Tom Byers (professor)

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University in the United States.

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Tom Wasow

Thomas A. Wasow is an American linguist, the Academic Secretary to the University at Stanford University.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Unimation

Unimation was the world's first robotics company.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.

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United States National Security Council

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.

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WAITS

WAITS was a heavily modified variant of Digital Equipment Corporation's Monitor operating system (later renamed to, and better known as, "TOPS-10") for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from the mid-1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of "SAIL".

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Wireless sensor network

Wireless sensor network (WSN) refers to a group of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors for monitoring and recording the physical conditions of the environment and organizing the collected data at a central location.

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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in Northern California on October 17 at local time (1989-10-18 00:04 UTC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_centers_and_institutes

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