1. About Stanford University

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford is situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley. It is one of the most widely known and highly regarded universities in the world and ranks highly in numerous academic categories.

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    2. VMware Joins Stanford and UC Berkeley to Launch New Open Networking Research Center

      Explore Marketwire (Apr 10 2012)

      ...ch Center is a virtual center with three components: two networking research groups each located at Stanford University and UC Berkeley as well as an independent non-profit Open Networking Laboratory that intends to dev... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CTO   Securities and Exchange Commission   Stanford University

    3. Steve Jobs Didn't Believe in Macs for Business. But Here They Are

      Explore Wired News (Feb 1 2012)

      Steve Jobs Didn't Believe in Macs for Business. But Here They Are ...nd Phoenix Technologies. Then, in 2008, he stumbled onto a desktop virtualization project at Stanford University. Professor Monica Lam and her research team had built software that allowed users to run a separat... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Citrix   McAfee   San Francisco

    4. SOASTA Launches Next-Generation Test Platform for Multi-Touch and Gesture-Based Mobile Applications

      Explore businesswire.com (Jan 23 2012)

      ...n mobile app testing,” said Mark Calomeni, Director, Software Platform Engineering, HighWire Press, Stanford University. “Functional testing of mobile apps has been difficult at best, forcing us to resort to manual test... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Stanford University   iOS   Mountain View

    5. Hot IT job: Data scientist

      Explore ITworld (Oct 11 2011)

      ...s held, with significant attendance by practitioners and companies hoping to find good candidates. Stanford University has estimated that 1,200 exabytes of data were created in 2010. That's a tenfold increase in five y... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   IBM   CIO

    6. Remembering Steve Jobs, the man who saved Apple

      Explore itworldcanada.com (Oct 5 2011)

      ... worth of $150 million and started his next venture, Next. Jobs Returns In a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs said that his firing from Apple in the mid-1980s "was the best thing that could have ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cupertino   Adobe   Microsoft

    7. Mayor Bloomberg: NYC to Surpass Silicon Valley in Tech Startups

      Explore eweek.com (Sep 22 2011)

      ...on innovation and will become increasingly important in the 21^st century.” According to Bloomberg, Stanford University is trying to partner with a local university to get an edge up. A Wall Street Journal report indi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Washington   New York   IBM

    8. Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems

      Explore Making the channel successful since 1991 (Jun 14 2011)

      Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems ...know about the aforementioned startups: Big Switch Networks is putting its chips behind OpenFlow, a Stanford University and UC-Berkeley project "designed to separate the control function of switches from the switch hard... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon   Network World   Compuware

    9. Stirring the pot

      Explore modernhealthcare.com (Feb 3 2011)

      ...and more » Last month, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a report online from a couple of Stanford University researchers who questioned the current faith that adoption of electronic health-record systems lead... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Stanford University   Electronic Health Records   Indianapolis

    10. Meet the Father of Google Apps

      Explore pcworld.com (Jun 22 2010)

      Meet the Father of Google Apps ...for Hotmail, owned by Microsoft, where he led the effort to create Hotmail's first spam filter. The Stanford University graduate later spent a year at VMware, where he was product manager for VMware's ESX Server. The st... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Network World   Microsoft

    11. Meet the father of Google Apps (who used to work at Microsoft)

      Explore IDG News Service (Jun 22 2010)

      ...for Hotmail, owned by Microsoft, where he led the effort to create Hotmail's first spam filter. The Stanford University graduate later spent a year at VMware, where he was product manager for VMware's ESX Server. The st... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Network World   Microsoft

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