" 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 affiliated with over 50 Nobel laureates, as well as 19 recipients ( 22 if visiting professors and consulting professors included ) of the Turing Award, the so-called " Nobel Prize in computer science ", comprising one third of the awards given in its 44-year history.

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.

In 2011, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Stanford 1st in the world for both humanities and social sciences, remarking, " Stanford University knocks Harvard University off the top spot in the arts and humanities subject rankings.

In 2010, the Times also ranked Stanford in engineering and technology, in life sciences, 5th in physical sciences, in arts & humanities, in social sciences, and in clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences ; no other university places in the top 5 across all broad disciplines studied.

In the 2012 U. S. News graduate school rankings, Stanford also placed in the top 5 for every discipline in which it was ranked, except industrial engineering, where it placed, and fine arts, where it placed.

While Rose is not considered in the doctoral institution rankings, Stanford University's Hoover Institute fellow, Thomas Sowell, mentioned Rose – Hulman as one of the best smaller universities to consider, noting that graduate engineering deans have ranked its graduates ahead of many top schools with PhD programs, such as Duke, Princeton, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania.

* Pat Du Pre-Former top 20 professional tennis player ; collegiate star at Stanford

Placed ahead of Swarthmore were, in order, Williams, Princeton, Amherst, United States Military Academy, MIT and Stanford, while Harvard, Claremont McKenna, and Yale followed Swarthmore to round out the top ten institutions.

According to psychologist David Marks in experiments conducted in the 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute, the notes given to the judges contained clues as to which order they were carried out, such as referring to yesterday's two targets, or they had the date of the session written at the top of the page.

The tower features an observation deck on the top level that provides visitors with a panaromic view of the Stanford campus and surrounding area.

Stanford Law School ranks among the top three in terms of accomplished faculty members.

In September 2006, the Teacher's College was cited by The Education Schools Project as one of the top four model teacher preparation programs in the United States along with Stanford University, Alverno College, and the University of Virginia.

The top six universities in the ranking-Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of Oxford were found to be " head and shoulders above the rest ", and were touted as a group of globally recognised " super brands ".

Only seven schools ranked in the top 30 in all five categories: SMU Cox, Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT, NYU, and UCLA.

In 1887, this modest property was expanded and altered by noted architect Stanford White at the cost of $ 130, 000 into a mansion with an interior marble staircase and a ballroom on the top floor where Mamie Fish gave elaborate parties for New York society.

In turn many students from College Prep go on to study at America's top universities, and approximately one-third of each graduating class matriculates into Ivy League schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or Stanford University.

With strong emphasis on internationalization, TUT has a strong multicultural student body ( there are students from over 60 countries ), many international professors, great cooperation with the world's top universities ( e. g., Berkeley, Stanford, Aalto, Shanghai Jiao Tong ) and with international companies ( e. g., Microsoft, Samsung, Skype, etc ).

Many MIPT alumni hold faculty positions in the world's top Universities, including Harvard, Princeton University, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, Brown, and University of Chicago.

Academic staff includes PhD holders from some of the top tier universities such as Stanford, Rice University, MIT, University of California, Berkeley, University of Manchester, McGill University, McMaster University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Austin, University College London, Imperial College London, National University of Singapore, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Yale University, and Harvard University.

* The Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award is presented to the students that rank academically in the top five percent of the graduating senior class from the Stanford University School of Engineering.

Sidwell soccer alums have suited up at a number of top schools, including Maryland, Stanford, GW, Yale, Brown, Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Bowdoin College, Swarthmore College, Pomona College, Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Amherst College, Princeton University, and Williams College.

In recent years, top Girard students have enrolled at Columbia University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Howard University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Ursinus College, Villanova University, and Washington University.

The top most frequently attended colleges and universities for Spence graduates from 2006-2010 were: University of Pennsylvania ( 14 ), Princeton University ( 13 ), Duke University ( 12 ), Cornell University ( 10 ), Dartmouth ( 10 ), Harvard University ( 7 ), Yale University ( 6 ), Stanford University ( 5 ), and Brown University ( 5 ).

PVPHS students matriculate to top colleges, including ( in 2010 ), 1 student to Harvey Mudd College, 5 to MIT, 3 to Harvard, 2 to Yale, and 8 to Stanford.

In 2004 after graduating from Stanford University with a degree in International Relations, Azevedo signed a professional water polo contract with Bissolati Cremona ( Italy ) placing him among the top 10 paid players in the sport.