79 posts and columns on Stanford
Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Expert Cliff Nass Dies at 55
Silicon Valley has lost a beautiful mind.News Byte
Stanford Grants $3.6M to StartX Accelerator
Stanford University, the educational institution most closely affiliated with technology startups, is making a direct investment in StartX, a nonprofit, four-year-old startup accelerator for Stanford affiliates. Stanford is also creating an uncapped fund to invest in companies that emerge from the program. Graduates from StartX include WifiSlam (bought by Apple for about $20 million for indoor location) and Clinkle (raised $25 million for mobile payments).EAT Bus: Does It Deliver?
The mission for the lunch-delivery service is straightforward: Bringing good food to busy office workers.Stanford Students Hope Posting Documentary Online Will Get More Women to Code
Speaking at DLDwomen in Munich, the founders of She++ urged women already in the workforce to learn to code so they might be better able to mentor and encourage the next generation.You Really Might Be Boring Your Facebook Friends
A back-and-forth between Facebook and BuzzFeed obscures a more interesting point — lots of people may not be very interested in the stuff you post on Facebook.Voices
Startup’s Deep Roots: Stanford
In one of the largest exoduses from Stanford University’s computer-science programs, more than a dozen students have left to launch a startup called Clinkle Corp. that aims to let other students — and eventually anyone — use their mobile devices to pay for goods and services.Stanford to Work With EdX Open-Source Learning Platform
Stanford isn’t actually joining the 12-school EdX consortium, but rather integrating into the EdX platform when it is open-sourced on June 1.Life After Steve
Weird.
— The one-word answer given by Apple chairman Arthur D. Levinson Tuesday afternoon at Stanford Business School, when he was asked about his experience since Steve Jobs’s death