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1. Internet achieves middle age: life begins at 40

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer to Stanford Research Institute.Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer ...

2. Facebook may not trash your grades

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 07 May 2009

   ... of communication studies at Northwestern University and a fellow this year at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Along with Josh Pasek, a doctoral student at Stanford University, Hargittai ...

3. No money for college? Attend 100 universities on YouTube

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 09 April 2009

   A new EDU channel on YouTube is being populated by more than 100 schools, including Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale and UC Berkeley. Most of them have partnered up to provide relevant school-specific information, ...

4. UPDATED: The 100 oldest registered dot com, org, net, edu domains

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... 5377 15 stanford.edu 10/04/85 1276 16 umich.edu 10/07/85 2242 17 ucsd.edu 12/09/85 5036 18 arizona.edu 01/23/86 4151 19 ucsf.edu 02/21/86 14279 20 indiana.edu 03/03/86 4832 21 ucdavis.edu 03/19/86 6016 ...

5. Stanford building "Smart Email" system, knows your intent

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Thursday, 29 January 2009

     Stanford University scientists have developed an email system which can determine who your messages are for without providing destination users. The system is currently being perfected to also know whether ...

6. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo looking to bypass Net Neutrality with money

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 15 December 2008

   ... take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality." Stanford Internet Law Professor and Obama advisor, Lawrence Lessig used to be a staunch advocate of Net Neutrality. He, too, has ...

7. Prediction: Ncomputing is the next Google

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 28 July 2008

   ... office, a Stanford student who seemed to be more excited about his 3D mouse and was not concerned about dirty dishes taking up more than half the space of his desk. It was your average over-the-top Internet ...

8. Former Googlees want to out-Cuil Google

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 27 July 2008

   ... also has a long standing search engine pedigree. Louis Monier, VP of Products, was a founding CTO of Alta Vista, which wasn't that bad in its day. They've got game, dude. “Since we met at Stanford, Tom ...

9. Knol: Google does a pedia

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 24 July 2008

   ... this without being intimidated by Wikipedia," he said. Most of the content on Knol at launch iwas medical articles. Interestingly enough, on the same day, Harvard Medical School, the Stanford School of ...

10. FCC mulls regulating network practices

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 18 April 2008

    At an agency hearing at Stanford, FCC chairman Kevin Martin said the FCC should carefully examine what constitutes "reasonable" network management for ISPs. At an agency hearing on broadband services ...

11. Secret military history of Silicon Valley gave rise to modern tech giants

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 18 January 2008

    ... Blank frequently lectures at Stanford’s school of engineering, the Berkeley business school and Columbia business school.  You can view Blank’s talk here. Blank outlines the various waves ...

12. Google, IBM sponsor parallel computing courses at universities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... first to join the initiative. Carnegie-Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland also confirmed ...

13. Americans now spend more time with computers than with their spouse

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 22 January 2007

    ... countries, like China. Others are more skeptical about the problem. In a 2005 Stanford report on Internet addiction, one researcher noted, "The Internet is an environment. You can't be addicted ...

14. Some Americans are Internet addicts: Stanford study

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 17 October 2006

    Are we a nation of Internet addicts? Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine think that some of us are. In a telephone-based study, researchers say one out of eight Americans showed ...

15. How will the MySpace / Google deal affect Internet traffic?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 08 August 2006

    ... this back in the days when it was a Stanford University research project; MySpace, by comparison, would have the virtue of a pre-assembled audience. "What if you layered the social network of MySpace's ...

16. Stanford scientists unveil defense against phishing

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 03 August 2005

      It's an online con that is growing fast and stealing tens of millions of dollars. It's an online con that is growing fast and stealing tens of millions of dollars. An e-mail seemingly from a financial ...

17. On Internet's 35th birthday, pioneer still excited about its potential

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 29 October 2004

    ... science professor's team had networked its computer with one at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park. The plan was for UCLA to send the letters "L-O-G" and for SRI to answer back with "I-N." The ...

18. Google could be five times faster

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2003

      If you think that the Google search engine is fast already, wait until you hear about the latest discovery made by a team of avid Internet users at Stanford University. If you think that the Google ...

19. Software Hackers 1, DMCA 0

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 19 December 2002

    ... the e-book decryption software sold by it was legal under Russian law. The Director of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Jennifer S. Granick, expressed agreement with the jury's finding, saying ...