" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".

* Stanford has a History and Philosophy of Science and Technology program.

Andre Weitzenhoffer and Ernest R. Hilgard developed the Stanford Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility in 1959, consisting of 12 suggestion test items following a standardised hypnotic eye-fixation induction script, and this has become one of the most widely referenced research tools in the field of hypnosis.

The KSL has projects with Stanford Medical Informatics ( SMI ), the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab ( SAIL ), the Stanford Formal Reasoning Group ( SFRG ), the Stanford Logic Group, and the Stanford Center for Design Research ( CDR ).

Since Mars Direct was initially conceived, it has undergone regular review and development by Zubrin himself, the Mars Society, NASA, Stanford University and others.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

Since 1952, more than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni have won the Nobel Prize, and Stanford has the largest number of Turing award winners ( dubbed the " Nobel Prize of Computer Science ") for a single institution.

Stanford has a student body of approximately 6, 988 undergraduate and 8, 400 graduate students.

Stanford has won 103 NCAA championships ( the second-most for a university ), and Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors ' Cup every year since 1995.

Since 2000, Stanford has expanded dramatically.

The United States Postal Service has assigned Stanford two ZIP codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P. O.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

* Study abroad locations: unlike typical study abroad programs, Stanford itself operates in locations around the globe ; thus, each location, which ranges from Beijing to Cape Town, has Stanford faculty-in-residence and staff in addition to students, creating a " mini Stanford.

Stanford has been the top fundraising university in the United States for several years.

Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.

The PDP-10 successor was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( SAIL ) along with a new operating system.

Hoover claimed to be the first student ever at Stanford, by virtue of having been the first person in the first class to sleep in the dormitory.

Several attempts have been made to improve the quality of this historic recording ; a " denoised " version was produced at Stanford University which claims to solve the mystery.

This was the second time a team could have been considered a home team for a Super Bowl with Stanford just 30 miles away from San Francisco.

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Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

However, there have been reports in October 2011 that researchers at Stanford University have created an even harder man-made substance called an amorphous diamond by using ultrahigh pressure conditions to create a non-crystalline structure which lacks the weak planes.

Charles Taber and Milton Lodge argued that the Stanford team's result had been hard to replicate because the arguments used in later experiments were too abstract or confusing to evoke an emotional response.

Many other universities and educational institutions of the United States have been involved in the development of the project and its instruments, namely the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stanford University, Penn State University ( ARL ), Boston College, UCLA, Clemson University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the University of Tulsa.

She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Stanford University, and at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

Clark's philanthropic focus has been to contribute to Stanford University where he was an electrical engineering professor.

The name Stanford may have been derived from " Standing Fort ", which Fort Logan became known as in the late 1770s as it survived multiple attacks by native Americans.

The waterfront mansion had originally been built for A. C. Sloane, originally named Keewaydin, had been designed by Stanford White and built in 1902.

On this section, it has been dammed to create Stanford Reservoir.

His work on the liar paradox has been most recently studied by Paul Spade and Stephen Read ( for which see Spade's entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which offers a brief exposition ).

In 1970, the Church of Scientology published a notarized letter that had been written by Puthoff while he was conducting research on remote viewing at Stanford.

He had been student body president and a campus activist at Stanford University in McCloskey ’ s district and where Teach-In board member Paul Ehrlich was a professor.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ( born January 25, 1922 ) is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 ( now emeritus ).

It was in part out of public concern over the sale of pets to research facilities that the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act was ushered in — the Senate Committee on Commerce reported in 1966 that stolen pets had been retrieved from Veterans Administration facilities, the Mayo Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Harvard and Yale Medical Schools.

Much progress in energy economics has been made through the conferences of the International Association for Energy Economics, the model comparison exercises of the ( Stanford ) Energy Modeling Forum and the meetings of the International Energy Workshop.

Grove continues his work at Intel as a senior advisor and has been a lecturer at Stanford University.

From 1977 on, he was affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

In 1908, Stanford University adopted the Cooper Medical College as its affiliated medical institution, called the Stanford Medical Department.

The company was founded in 1980, is privately held, and is not affiliated with Stanford University.

Oregon and Stanford were selected for BCS bowls, and the Rose Bowl selected an at large team, TCU, to pair with the Big Ten champion, Wisconsin, leaving the second highest Pac-10 affiliated bowl game, the Alamo Bowl, to choose between Arizona and Washington.

Stanford University pioneered development of a system, MacIP, that allowed IP packets to be routed over LocalTalk networks with the support of a suitable " gateway " machine.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

Along with Rhodes and Green, Tyrone Willingham became the head coach at Stanford, then later Notre Dame and Washington.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

Matt Underwood and former Indians Gold Glove winning CF Rick Manning form the announcing team, with Al Pawlowski as the pregame / postgame host and in-game update anchor, former Indians LHP Jason Stanford as pregame analyst, and Kaite Witham as field reporter ( home games ).

It ended when Stanford requested and Michigan agreed to end it with 8 minutes on the clock.

Teaming with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University 1989 – 2000.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

In 1975, the Japanese company Yamaha licensed the algorithms for frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) from John Chowning, who had experimented with it at Stanford University since 1971.

He graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1965.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

Expert systems were introduced by researchers in the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, including the " father of expert systems " with the Dendral and Mycin systems.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

DARPA then contracted with BBN Technologies, Stanford University, and the University College London to develop operational versions of the protocol on different hardware platforms.

In the 1982 Big Game between Stanford and California, with four seconds left and trailing by one point, Cal ran the ball back on a kickoff all the way for the game-winning touchdown using five backward passes, eventually running through the Stanford Band, who had already taken the field ( believing the game was over after Stanford players appeared to have tackled a Cal ball-carrier ).