Leading universities including Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT and Oxford continue to extend their reach by enrolling more than 100, 000 students in single iTunes U courses, with Stanford University and The Open University each surpassing 60 million content downloads.

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A. from Stanford University and has used those connections to win business on the U.S. West Coast.

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Sebastian Thrun, from Stanford University, burst into the headlines last year by winning a U.S. Defense Department race of autonomous vehicles through the desert.

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After receiving a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Shriver worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life.

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Dajani is currently a mentor on Mentornet, hosted here in the U.S. and AMENDS, a program sponsored by Stanford University.

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Condoleezza Rice, provost of Stanford University in California, has been mentioned as a possible secretary of state should the Republicans win the U.S. presidential election.

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He also taught law at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, Georgetown and Stanford and work as an assistant attorney general and judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals before Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court.

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