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Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford is ranked among the best universities in the world by academic publications.Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley.The university is organized around seven schools: three schools consisting of 40 academic departments at the undergraduate level as well as four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. All schools are on the same campus. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 128 NCAA team championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 25 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. In addition, Stanford students and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.As of April 2021, 84 Nobel laureates, 29 Turing Award laureates, and eight Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty, or staff. In addition, Stanford is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 7th largest economy in the world (as of 2020). Stanford is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 74 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts. It is also one of the leading producers of Fulbright Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, and members of the United States Congress.

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  1. R

    Who's working on Strong AI and where?

    Who's working on "Strong AI" and where? Time for me to move on for my PhD. I have become increasingly interested (have a theory of my own as I am sure many do) in Strong AI. There seem to be a decent number of postings (perhaps small in comparison with other areas of CS), those however are...
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    Celestial mechanics & Stanford

    Hi, I'm interested in celestial mechanics and would like to do an internship about it in Stanford, kind of computational one. I visited many projects webpages on Stanford's website but I didn't find anything about researchs including celestial mechanic ... What keywords should I use on Google...
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    Ready to Dive into Stanford's Free Online ML & AI Courses?

    Hello all, Stanford is offering FREE online Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence courses running from October 10 to December 18. Would anyone like to register and start an online PF study group with me? Here are the links: http://www.ml-class.org http://www.ai-class.com
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    I got a C. Can I get into Stanford?

    I'm a city college student who will someday be trying for a masters in ME or EE at Stanford, MIT, or Berkeley. I already have a bachelors which means I can't go for a second one at these schools (at least Stanford and recently UCB I'm sure of). My bachelor's was in music, and my gpa was 3.0...
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    Chances of Getting into Caltech - Engineering Student

    okeyy, so i am a student in high school and i would like to apply for caltech but i want to know what my chances are: so i want to study engineering, i go to an international school, i love maths! but I'm not soo good in languages like french but i don't need that for engineering do i? And so...
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    Stanford VS Harvard for undergrad physics/astrophysics

    I'm at a crossroads in my life now and I have the lucky dilemma of having to choose between Harvard and Stanford (which one should I take? :P) so...which one do I take? I'm planning to major in physics/astrophysics but I see both have are pretty strong with those fields. FA is amazing at both so...
  7. X

    Grad student quality of life at Harvard and Stanford?

    Can anyone tell me about the quality of life as a grad student at Harvard and Stanford? I've been accepted to the PhD physics programs at both schools and have no idea which one to choose. Since both schools are excellent academically and I don't yet have a specific area I want to specialize...
  8. S

    Can I get into MIT, cal Berkeley or Stanford?

    I have just finished grade 10 pre IB in Canada. And I am starting IB next year. I will take HL math, chem and english, and SL physics, geography, and french(which i am almost fluent in.) GPA: 4.0 unweighted I have also completed grade 11 and 12 biology, receiving top marks in the school (97...
  9. Pengwuino

    Stanford for 2 weeks, suggestions for a place?

    So I'm going to visit SLAC for 2 weeks at the start of August and I was wondering if anyone happened to know some decent places for the 2 week stay? I'm probably mainly looking at motels/hotels but I don't know the area as well as some of you might. I'm working off $1k of grant money so that's a...
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    Programs 3.47 GPA am I screwed for Stanford Math PhD?

    Dear Physics Forums, I am a math major who just finished my sophomore year at a USNews top 10 school. As the title says it, I have a (sad) 3.47 gpa with my math gpa just about the same. Over the last few weeks, I have been considering my career path and yes, going to graduate school for math...
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    MIT vs Stanford for Particle Physics: Which is Best?

    I'm going for a career preferably in Particle Physics, but I still have a couple years to worry about college, so I'm just wondering, Stanford or MIT? Or somewhere else? And why Standford, MIT, or other?
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    Should I get a astro/aero grad degree from Stanford?

    I am considering getting a MS in Astronautics and Aeronautics at Stanford. It's free (my employer pays the tuition) but will take about 5 years for me to get. Any thoughts if this is worth it? It'll be my second masters degree and I'm currently employed as an engineer.
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    For Undergrad: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford?

    I'm just wondering, but if you are a good student at HYPMS or maybe even UPenn, is there a good chance of earning near 100K fresh out of college? Or is this just a big misconception that most ambitious high school students have?
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    A question about the Stanford Lectures on Fourier Transforms

    I told one of my friends about the Stanford OCW and he found the "Lectures on Fourier Transforms for Electrical Engineers". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNm7L96pfY&feature=PlayList&p=B24BC7956EE040CD&index=0 Since it is summer time, he said he might spend time looking through that...
  15. thrill3rnit3

    Stanford EPGY Math Courses - Unravel the Mysteries of Mathematics

    http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/math/index.html Has anyone tried learning from EPGY before? If yes, what do you think about it? Is it worth wasting money on this?
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    Grad student life at Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell

    I'm interested to hear from Grad Students at these schools about anything they wish they had known when they were applying. How competitive/compassionate are the students? How is the weather? Are people happy? Is the town in complete economic distress? Do you like the whole department, or...
  17. Simfish

    Schools Stanford EPGY for university students

    So, what if a student is above 18 years old [I'm not, but may consider EPGY after 18] and wants to do Stanford EPGY? It says that it's only for HS students, but as a college student and high school dropout with a learning disability who is totally dissatisfied with how the courses are taught in...
  18. exequor

    Hacking applicants turned down by Stanford

    I still don't get the reason for turning down their applications, maybe if they did something to influence their admissions decision I would understand.
  19. R

    Graduate School: Stanford vs Caltech

    Which school is better for graduate study, Stanford or Caltech?
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    Stanford & Google: Very Exciting News

    This is very very exciting. :smile: (If this is the wrong forum to post this in please do the honors and move it to where it belongs). http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/google-0112.html
  21. brum

    What is the Stanford Bookstore Joke?

    Can someone tell it please? I've never heard it.
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