Stanford University, founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford, is an American private research university located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The university is known for its academic excellence across a variety of disciplines. Scientific breakthroughs include the discovery of six chemical elements at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium and lawrencium.
Leland Stanford was one of the former governors of California while Jane Lathrop Stanford helped found both Del Monte Foods and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. These ties to state history led to other significant connections with influential individuals such as Frederick Terman, who helped build Stanford into a leading research institution.
Stanford is especially noted for its contributions to applied sciences, forming the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and advancing knowledge in medicine, science, engineering, education and business management. The school added further graduate-level programs later which are now collectively known as the Stanford Graduate School of
The current president of Stanford University is Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
All courses are recorded live on Google Hangouts so cannot be accessed via podcast. But you can view videos by searching for “Stanford” on YouTube!
Systems/Geosciences Computational and Mathematical Engineering is a department at Stanford University that focuses on using computational models to teach, research, and solve real-world problems. The department is housed in the Wallace Stegner building along with the Earth Systems Program.
The Systems Group is an affiliated research center under the wing of Systems/Geosciences Computational and Mathematical Engineering. It has been researching broken arithmetic problems, which are problems where errors affect all subsequent operations during computation. Their research may have applications in
The director of Systems Geosciences Computational & Mathematical Engineering is Professor Jim Pritchard.
Two of the most recent courses offered are Intro to Data Science II CS193A, taught every spring by Mehran Sahami, professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and Computationally-Enabled Science I PHYS107C, taught every winter by co-directors Michael Hoffmann and Andy Rin Tzou .