One prime example is the explosive boom of Silicon Valley startups out of the Stanford Industrial Park.

Ground control for Corona satellites was initially conduct from Stanford Industrial Park, an industrial park on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, California.

Built in 1951, as Stanford Industrial Park, it claims to be the world's first technology-focused office park.

* Establishing the Stanford Industrial Park ( now the Stanford Research Park ) and the Stanford Shopping Center on leased University land, thus stabilizing the university's finances.

In 1951 he spearheaded the creation of Stanford Industrial Park ( now Stanford Research Park ), whereby the University leased portions of its land to high-tech firms.

Companies such as Varian Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and Lockheed Corporation moved into Stanford Industrial Park and made the mid-Peninsula area into a hotbed of innovation which eventually became known as Silicon Valley.

The mid 1960s saw the combined establishment of the North Ryde Industrial Area and Macquarie University to emulate the industrial areas surrounding and associated with Stanford University near San Francisco, California.

Hatoyama graduated with a B. Eng from the University of Tokyo in 1969 and received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1976.

Engelbart took a position at SRI International ( SRI, known then as the Stanford Research Institute ) in Menlo Park, California in 1957.

Other Stanford programs underwent notable expansion as well, such as the Stanford in Washington Program's creation of the Stanford in Washington Art Gallery in Woodley Park, Washington, D. C., and the Stanford in Florence program's move to Palazzo Capponi, a 15th-century Renaissance palace.

Stanford's main campus is a census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university land ( including the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park ) is within the city limits of Palo Alto.

The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County ( including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park ( Stanford Hills neighborhood ), Woodside, and Portola Valley.

The Stanford trustees also oversee the Stanford Research Park, the Stanford Shopping Center, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University Medical Center, and many associated medical facilities ( including the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ).

Being situated on Stanford Research Park land leased from Stanford University

* September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

* Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park while he was a student at nearby Stanford University.

Founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the facility is located on 426 acres ( 1. 72 square kilometers ) of Stanford University-owned land on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California — just west of the University's main campus.

This situation resulted in two severe bottlenecks which made it difficult to travel to and from Stanford Shopping Center, Stanford University, and Menlo Park.

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.

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.

As Pólya notes in the preface, Professor Bowden carefully followed a tape recording of a course Pólya gave several times at Stanford in order to pull a book together.

Stanford is home to the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalist and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to develop solutions to challenges facing the ocean.

* First to discover ( together with Stanford ) the techniques of recombinant DNA, the seminal step in the creation of the biotechnology industry

In 2006, the Archimedes Palimpsest project together with imagers at Stanford University used powerful X-ray fluorescence imaging to read the final pages of the Palimpsest, which contained the material by Hypereides.

The Doobies hibernated for the next five years, with various members getting together in different configurations for annual Christmas season performances for the patients and staff at the Stanford Children's Hospital in the Bay area.

A working 2-qubit NMR quantum computer used to solve Deutsch's problem was demonstrated by Jonathan A Jones and Michele Mosca at Oxford University and shortly after by Isaac L. Chuang at IBM's Almaden Research Center together with coworkers at Stanford University and MIT.

Jane Lathrop Stanford ( August 25, 1828-February 28, 1905 ) was the co-founder of Stanford University together with her husband, Leland Stanford.

President Benjamin Harrison and University founder Leland Stanford pictured together in 1891 The law department was almost exclusively composed of undergraduates at this time, and included a large number of students who might not have been welcome at more traditional law schools at the time, including women and Hispanic, Chinese and Japanese students.

They spent a summer together at Stanford training the faculty, and their two families shared a fraternity house.

In 2002 there were several meetings that drew together neuroscientists and ethicists to discuss neuroethics: the American Association for the Advancement of Science with the journal Neuron, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics with the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Royal Society of London, and Stanford University and the Dana Foundation.

Webb married Emma Clary on April 23, 1873 and together they produced eight children: William Robert, Jr. ( 1874 – 1960 ), Alla ( 1875 – 1944 ), John Stanford ( 1877 – 1951 ), Adeline ( 1879 – 1968 ), Daniel Clary ( 1881 – 1954 ), Susan ( 1882 – 1980 ), Emma ( 1884 – 1973 ), and Thompson ( 1887 – 1975 ).

The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, which Pratt designed in the early 1970s together with fellow Stanford professor Donald Knuth and independently from Morris, is still the most efficient general string searching algorithm known today.

The band's debut album, Out of the Loop, was released in 2001 on the Kindercore label and according to a 2002 interview with The Stanford Daily, the band's name represented the dynamic of the duo's relationship: " The two towers, equal and independent, together made up one entity and came to represent the relationship that Geller and Dykes forged professionally and personally.

The brains behind the winning Underwater Robotics submissions with their medals, together with Professor Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, President, International Foundation of Robotics Research.

Upon returning to Stanford, Linvill, together with graduate students G. J.

Rosa's place in English music was indicated by the number of leading musicians who attended his funeral, including Sullivan, Stanford, Mackenzie and George Grove, together with Richard D ' Oyly Carte, George Edwardes and Augustus Harris.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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 ).