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Take a tour of the virtual future at Stanford
If you want to see what your living room is likely to look like four years from now, take a tour of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, which has reopened after a major renovation. Tours are offered to the general public most Fridays at 4 p.m.
Stanford physicist Burton Richter's moderate approach to climate change gaining fans
Stanford physicist's prescriptions include more natural gas and nuclear power, doubts about renewable energy goals, and a new way to gain political support.
Scrub carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere? Too expensive, says a Stanford researcher. Better to start with the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants
To lessen the severity of global warming, focus on controls for coal-burning power plants, researchers say.
Stanford's latest iPhone and iPad apps course now free to the world on iTunes U
Stanford's popular iPhone and iPad app development course for Apple's iOS 5 is now available to the world through iTunes U.
Free computer science courses, new teaching technology reinvent online education
Stanford seeks to change the way courses are taught, with three free computer science classes.
8.16.11
Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers
Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw
Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable to automated attacks.
How the U.S. saved a starving Soviet Russia: PBS film highlights Stanford scholar's research on the 1921-23 famine
Stanford scholar Bertrand Patenaude tells the story of American relief for Soviet Russia 1921-23 famine – perhaps the first time a government charity was extended to a foe.
3.31.11
A beginner's lecture on the theory that troubled Einstein
Physicist David Mermin will lead nonscientists through the reasoning that resolved a quantum theory debate.
6.14.05
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.
