" 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.

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.

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 first bowl game was the 1902 Rose Bowl, played between Michigan and Stanford ; Michigan won 49-0.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

In 2003, the Owls won their first national championship in baseball, which was the first for the university in any team sport, beating Southwest Missouri State in the opening game and then the University of Texas and Stanford University twice each en route to the title.

Stanford athletes have won medals in every Olympic Games since 1912, winning 244 Olympic medals total, 129 of them gold.

In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any university in the United States and, in terms of medals won, tied with the country of Japan for 11th place.

Davenport won titles in San Diego, Stanford, and Los Angeles.

Davenport won San Diego and Stanford with Zvereva and lost in the US Open doubles final.

After Wimbledon, Davenport won the singles and doubles titles in Stanford and won San Diego in doubles with Morariu over Serena and Venus Williams in the final.

Davenport won a tour-high seven titles, including four straight during the summer ( Stanford, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Cincinnati ).

The " Conference of Champions ," the Pac-12 has won more NCAA National Team Championships than any other conference in history ; the three schools with the most NCAA team championships belong to the Pac-12 ( UCLA, Stanford and USC, in that order ).

The Nebraska program is second only to Stanford in all-time NCAA Tournament wins, all-time NCAA Tournament winning percentage, number of NCAA National Semifinal ( Final Four ) appearances, and in the number of NCAA National Championships won.

Williams rebounded in the summer when she won two Fed Cup matches against Italy and lost in the final of the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford to World No. 1 Davenport.

She won three Tier II events during the North American summer hard court season, defeating Davenport in the final of the tournament in Stanford, California and Monica Seles in the finals of both the tournament in San Diego and the tournament in New Haven, Connecticut.

During this time, the 49ers moved their game against the New England Patriots on October 22 to Stanford Stadium, where they had won Super Bowl XIX several years before.

In the second competition, held in October 2005, five different teams completed the course, and the Stanford University team won the $ 2 million prize.

After Wimbledon in 1977, McEnroe entered Stanford University and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association singles and team titles in 1978.

In 2008, the Thurrock branch of the IWCA contested the working class Stanford East and Corringham Town ward and won 98 votes, down from 144 votes in 2007 and behind the BNP's 344 votes.

" Later that year, during the halftime show of the football game against USC ( where Simpson had played football and won the 1968 Heisman Trophy ), band members drove a white Ford Bronco with bloody handprints around the Stanford stadium track, an obvious allusion to the low-speed chase in which police followed a white Bronco carrying Simpson around the Los Angeles area.

In, Green won a baseball scholarship to Stanford University, where he became a brother of the Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.

The four largest ever NCAA volleyball crowds were in the state of Nebraska, including the largest ever crowd of 17, 209 for the 2006 National Championship game between Nebraska and Stanford.

On November 24, 1982, three days after the November 20th Big Game ( now known for The Play ), early morning readers of the Daily Cal were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page: " NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford.

The NCAA campaign was just as frustrating, as Stanford University led by future NBA point guard Brevin Knight eliminated Duncan's team with a 72 – 66 win.

He was a football captain at Stanford, leading the NCAA in receptions with 61 in 1959.

* 1995 – 2011 Stanford ( NCAA Division I ) ( sixteen-peat, ongoing )

Two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Champion at Stanford in water polo.

At Stanford he won seven NCAA titles and developed 35 NCAA Champions, winning five NCAA Coach of the Year honors and three Pac-10 Coach of the Year awards.

Janiga entered Stanford University in fall 2006 and competed in NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship each year until her graduation in 2010.

She ended her Stanford career with a 2010 NCAA title on the uneven bars with a score of 9. 9375, only the second NCAA individual title in Stanford's history.

* Paul Goldstein ( 1994 ), professional tennis player, 4-time NCAA Champion and All-American at Stanford, 2-time USTA 18 & Under national champion.

She continued wrestling at Stanford University and eventually earned a spot on the all-male NCAA Division 1 roster as a 125-pound starter.

Marsh left Auburn after the 2007 season to become the Head Elite Coach and CEO of the United States Olympic Committee Center of Excellence in Charlotte, North Carolina and was succeeded by former Auburn head coach Richard Quick who led Stanford and Texas to 12 NCAA titles in two decades of coaching between 1984 and 2005.

After spending two years at Greensboro and leading The Pride to the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division III championship match, only to lose to Ohio Wesleyan University, he transferred to Stanford University where he played his final two years of college soccer.

In 2002 she led her Stanford team with 60 goals to win the NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship ; they had finished second the previous season, the first year the competition was held.

Stanford lost to UCLA that year in the NCAA Final.