The students from Finland visited Stanford three times and the Stanford students went to Finland once.
The companies begun by Stanford students or employees include Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Cisco, Yahoo and Google.
Of his 200 Stanford students, 30 attended lectures and the other 170 took it online.
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Their search engine soon became the standard for Stanford students and faculty and then most of Silicon Valley.
Her cofounders include fellow Stanford students Rahul Panicker, Naganand Murty and Linus Liang.
Valenti had heard that Stanford students were giddily downloading pirated movies to their PCs from a server within the campus network.
So, he decided to offer his own free online class, with the same homework, quizzes and tests that he gives to Stanford students.
Meanwhile, for the past three years Stanford students could opt to join a database that tracks their ideal industries and geographies, as well as academic credentials and work experience.
They took advantage of the time difference between California and Finland and held conference calls before the Stanford students went to sleep so the Aalto University students could pick up where the Californians left off.
Unlike at Google, which was also founded by two Stanford University students and is now Yahoo!'
Sergey Brin and Larry Page originally developed link-based ranking for Google as Stanford grad students supported by an NSF fellowship.
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"This accuracy will change how you interact with indoor environments, " co-founder Anand Atreya, one of the former Stanford University students who started WiFiSLAM, told the MIT Technology Review in 2011.
In fact, of all the students taking Thrun's class globally and at Stanford, the top 410 students were online.
Harvard competes with Stanford and Chicago for students, not with Rice and the University of Alabama.
Stanford hopes that the students can also develop the social skills to collaborate with people outside their areas of expertise.
Every year students at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design are challenged to find ways of improving gift giving for the giver.
As students at Stanford, Thiel and Hoffman had argued about the relative importance of individuals and society in the creation of property.
This is a guilty concern for the students at Stanford Business School.
Still last year, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who holds a bachelor and law degree from Stanford, paid students to leave college.
The students at Stanford Business School and the job-hopping members of the Five O'Clock Club might have a clear idea of the bargain they strike with employers.
Coverity's founders, four graduate students from Stanford University and their professor, recently grammar-checked the entire Linux 2.6.9 kernel operating system and found a respectably low 950 bugs in 5.5 million lines.
But if it means he has more money to pay students to drop out of Stanford, it remains to be seen how well Stanford will like employing a teacher who siphons off its top students before they earn their degree.
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But this begs the question of why Thiel is teaching at Stanford if he believes so strongly that students would be better off skipping his course and all the other ones that Stanford teaches to start a company.
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Over the last few years, a team of Stanford engineering professors, doctoral students, undergraduates, and high-school interns, led by Professors Subhasish Mitra and H.
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The class paired up Stanford engineers and B-school students to come up with a product.
Especially since colleges are even giving iPads away to their students, such as Stanford, Duke, Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of Maryland.
The purpose of the events is to give you a basic idea of how Stanford works and to meet other students with similar interests.
In one of the classes I sat in on at Stanford, the professor asked the students how they wanted the world to be different when they died.
She said that Stanford is particularly welcoming to foreign students.
But this is so-called Dead Week at Stanford, in late May, when students are still attending classes, writing final papers and cramming for exams.
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