The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.

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Jordan's motives for involvement in the case are unknown ; however, in his book, Cutler concludes that “ There is ample evidence that Mrs. Stanford was poisoned, that she was given good care, and that Jordan went over there to hush it up .” Mrs. Stanford had long had a difficult relationship with Jordan ; at the time of her death, she was president of the university's board of trustees and was reportedly planning to remove him from his position.

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In 1942 he became president of the Stanford board of trustees.

Designs for the church were submitted to Jane Stanford and the university trustees in 1898, and it was dedicated in 1903.

The initial board of trustees were Gosney, Henry M. Robinson ( a Los Angeles banker ), George Dock ( a Pasadena physician ), David Starr Jordan ( chancellor of Stanford University ), Justin Miller ( dean of the college of law at the University of Southern California ), Otis Castle ( a Los Angeles attorney ), Joe G. Crick ( a Pasadena horticulturist ), Goethe, and Popenoe.

The initial board of trustees were Gosney, Henry M. Robinson ( a Los Angeles banker ), George Dock ( a Pasadena physician ), David Starr Jordan ( chancellor of Stanford University ), Charles Goethe ( a Sacramento philanthropist ), Justin Miller ( dean of the college of law at the University of Southern California ), Otis Castle ( a Los Angeles attorney ), Joe G. Crick ( a Pasadena horticulturist ), and biologist / eugenicist Paul Popenoe.

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 ).

AC Transit also runs Transbay buses U ( Fremont BART and Amtrak to Stanford ) and DA ( Ardenwood to Oracle and Facebook headquarters ) across the bridge.

Hofstadter was also an invited panelist at the first Singularity Summit, held at Stanford in May 2006.

He also was influential in the founding of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in teaching, which not only contributed important research on teaching but also influenced the teaching of important educational psychologists.

While breaking into the film industry in the summer of 1916, Hawks also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Stanford University, and then returned to Cornell in September 1916.

The Colts used their number one overall draft pick in 2012 to draft Stanford Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck and would also draft his teammate Coby Fleener in the second round .. Also, the Colts will switch to a 3-4 defensive scheme.

Others such as Stanford Phelps, an early co-associate and rival at Drexel, have also contested his credit as pioneering the modern high-yield market.

Zimmermann is also a fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.

Parapsychological work was also conducted at the Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ) during this time.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy " It must also be recognized that ' forgery ' is a modern notion.

The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981 ; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa ; both were also based on PDP-11s.

Stanford is also home to the original papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and history professor Clayborne Carson directs the King Papers Project.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

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.

Stanford also houses the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is dedicated to the more specific study of international relations.

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.

William Kissam Vanderbilt enjoyed fishing on the river so much that he had a private fishing lodge built, hiring the famous New York City architect Stanford White to design and oversee construction of the property called Kedgwick Lodge and fuelling the love affair of corporate America with the Restigouche.

Following Stanford's death in 1893, his widow Jane Stanford continued to oversee the home.

For instance, at the Stanford Research Institute, in 1972, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants ( the viewers or percipients ) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations or targets.

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

Supervised by Leonard Kleinrock, Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer.

The first permanent ARPANET link was established on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute.

A precursor to GUIs was invented by researchers at the Stanford Research Institute, led by Douglas Engelbart.

Douglas Engelbart independently began working on his NLS system in 1962 at Stanford Research Institute, although delays in obtaining funding, personnel, and equipment meant that its key features were not completed until 1968.

A SRI International | Stanford Research Institute packet radio van, site of the first three-way Internetworking | internetworked transmission.

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 ).

* 2000, Center for Clinical Science Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States

The Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) at Stanford Research Institute, directed by Douglas Engelbart, was another of the four first ARPANET nodes and the source of early RFCs.

In 1969 the Stanford Research Institute operated one of the four original nodes that comprised ARPANET, predecessor to the Internet.

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.

Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ( originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ) and the Stanford Research Institute, a now independent institution which originated at the university, in addition to the Stanford Humanities Center.

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.

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.