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Stanford University Is Investigating An Apparent Security Breach, Urges Community To Reset Passwords
Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it “is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure.” Randall Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial…
edX Merges With Stanford’s Class2Go To Build An Open-Source Online Learning Platform
As new models of digital learning sweep across higher education, colleges and universities across the globe are scrambling to get on board and make their course catalogs available to a…
No Women In CS? Well, Not For Long
At Stanford, just under 21 percent of undergraduate CS majors, the school’s most popular major, are women. Surrounding the school, Silicon Valley is starved for talented engineers, with companies aggressively…
Your Online Ivy: Coursera Now Hosts 200 Courses From 33 Schools & Reaches 1.3M Students
For decades, the door to America’s top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance…
Class2Go: Stanford’s New Open-Source Platform For Online Education
The cost of higher education in the U.S. today is ridiculous. Student debt shot north of $1 trillion earlier this year, for example. It’s not surprising, then, that we’re seeing…
Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow Of Steve Jobs, Is Joining Stanford University’s Board Of Trustees
Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining the board of trustees of Stanford University. She has been elected for a five-year term…
Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To “Fundamentally Reshape Education”
Stanford University announced the creation of an Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning today, appointing computer science professor John Mitchell as the office’s inaugural head. In the past…
Stanford Teams Up With Piazza, Apple To Bring Social Features To Its iTunes U iOS Development Class
With over 700 million downloads, Apple’s iTunes U has been a massive success, but unlike other new online learning services like Udacity or Codecademy, it’s missing a social component where…
Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future
It wasn’t so long ago that Peter Thiel began publicly pushing the somewhat controversial idea that higher education is in a bubble, or launching an initiative to help smart young…
The Stanford Boys (and Girls) Club—In Beijing
I’ve written a lot about America’s flawed immigration policies: how the unavailability of permanent-resident visas and the growing xenophobia in the U.S., combined with expanding economic opportunities abroad, are causing…
Tech Industry Managers: Little Men in Big Shoes?
When I was ready to transition from computer programmer to project manager, my employer, Xerox Corporation, sent me to its huge training center in Leesburg, Virginia. Over two weeks, the…
A Stanford University research group says it found a way to more than double current solar power production efficiency. The technology uses both light and heat from the sun and…
Is journalism dead in the 21st Century?
The Traveling Geeks gathered together for a great turnout (despite the torrential downpours) at the Guardian’s Media Talk (live) podcast. Our agenda was to discuss journalism and it’s rapid change…
Stanford Course On How To Build iPhone Apps Will Soon Be Available On The iPhone
Want to learn how to create an iPhone app? Later this week, aspiring app creators will be able to start watching a popular Stanford computer science course on developing iPhone…
Stanford University recently conducted a research study to see what people do on the Internet. According to their website with a 1996-based layout, E-mail still reigns king as the most…
Not even a minute into this video and I was cracking up. It’s not even because he’s rapping (poorly) about UNIX-commands, it’s that this is the biggest display of geekism…