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Audi TTS Autonomous R&D Project Just What It Sounds Like

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:41:46 GMT

PALO ALTO, California — Drivers not wanted? That could be the slogan for the Audi TTS Autonomous, a project for a car that can "safely operate without direct input from a driver."
Source: Edmunds Inside Line

Noticeboard

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:20:58 GMT

Dr Wolfgang Marx, UCD School of Music, will give a public lecture entitled Requiem aeternam? The Musical Requiem between Intercession, Consolation and Accusation tomorrow from 5.30pm to 7pm in Lecture Theatre Q, Newman Building, Belfield.
Source: Irish Times

5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:10:59 GMT

Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent financial decline.
Source: PhysOrg.com

What is genius?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:05:14 GMT

Psychologists still grind away (sometimes at each other) at explaining what genius is, and where it comes from. The effort, now weary and tendentious, was exciting in its earlier days.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:29:11 GMT

ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley,...
Source: Science Daily

Stanford student among 2010 Rhodes Scholars from U.S.

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:24:51 GMT

A Stanford University student from Illinois and a Princeton University student from Saratoga are among 32 Americans who have won Rhodes Scholarships.
Source: Inside Bay Area

Liver Damage May Be Prevented By Herbal Medicine

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:02:42 GMT

A well-known Eastern medicine supplement may help avoid the most common cause of liver transplantation, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Source: Huffington Post

Home Fires: Life Lessons

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:01:25 GMT

Home Fires features the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the United States military. I’m occasionally asked what I’ve learned from my experiences in the military.
Source: The New York Times

Stanford Women's Basketball : 11/19.2009 : Meet the Freshmen

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:31:59 GMT

Quoted in 'IBM Making Computers to Rival Human Brain'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:13 GMT

said in CBS News:

BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM researchers in collaboration with Stanford University, exploits the Blue Gene supercomputing architecture in order to noninvasively measure and map the connections between all cortical and sub-cortical locations within the human brain using magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging.

Quoted in 'Poll: Tax Rich To Pay For Obama-Care'

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:34:24 GMT

said in Sweetness & Light:

Stanford University’s participation was made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which conducts research on all facets of the health care system.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:58 GMT

Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia gestures during her Stanford Classic second round tennis match against Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, July 29, 2009.

Photo from Getty Images

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:58:05 GMT

STANFORD, CA - JULY 29: Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a shot to Nadia Petrova of Russia on Day 3 of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University on July 29, 2009 in Stanford, California.