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• Sun Microsystems to Discuss the Future of Digital Archiving and Information Preservation on Upcoming Internet Talk Show

  - 2008-06-16

  MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The next Innovation Insider show features Michael A. Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University, who will discuss the future of digital archiving and information preservation, and answer questions from listeners. Innovation Insider is a new show on blogtalkradio.com from Sun Microsystems...

  Tags: archiving, Internet, SOFTWARE, Stanford University, Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc.

• Stanford Bioengineer Remains World Sudoku Champ

  - 2008-04-22

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Thomas Snyder is once again the world champ of sudoku, the popular puzzle game. The 28-year-old bioengineering postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University retained his title of individual champion at the World Sudoku Championship in Goa, India, held April 14-17. Snyder also won a special title as...

  Tags: Games, INTERNET, Stanford, Stanford University

• Stanford Medicine Explores Implications of the Graying Globe

  - 2008-04-08

  Redesigned Magazine Web Site Offers Additional Features STANFORD, Calif. -- Face it, you're getting old -- most likely, really old. And you're most definitely not alone. Just 100 years ago, life expectancy in the United States was 47. Now it's 77. Similar increases in life span are under...

  Tags: INTERNET, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, Stanford, Stanford University, Web

• Stanford Offers Advanced Computer Security Certificate Online: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

  - 2007-10-18

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Internet fraud is big business, and perpetrators use methods that involve multi-staged attacks, exploitation of trusted sites, consolidation of resources, and even tailor-made approaches for different regions. Security systems and practices must be even more sophisticated. Stanford University now offers the Advanced Computer Security certificate program completely...

  Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, software, Stanford, Stanford University

• 'Brilliant' minds think alike

  - 2007-10-15

  Their duties can sound ordinary until you look more closely: One dusts for footprints -- of black holes. Another is a cartographer -- using laser beams to map a rain forest. Another is an Internet repairman -- who actually is restructuring the Internet to protect websites from hackers. ...

  Tags: INTERNET, laser, monkey, Stanford University

• MEDIA ADVISORY: Bay Area Teens to Showcase Summer Research Projects at Stanford

  - 2007-08-06

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Twenty-two local high school students who spent eight weeks this summer exploring mysteries in the realm of immunology will display the results of their work on Aug. 9 at the Stanford University School of Medicine during a poster session open to the public. The students participated...

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• Future Internet Expert and Experienced Industry Entrepreneur Joins Mocana's Advisory Board

  - 2007-05-16

  Executive Director of Stanford University's Clean Slate Design for the Internet Brings His Expertise and Unique Perspective to Mocana SAN FRANCISCO -- Mocana, a software company that is enabling a secure networked society, today announced the addition of technology industry expert and visionary, Guru Parulkar, to Mocana's Advisory Board....

  Tags: INTERNET, National Science Foundation, Stanford University

• Health: Sites Walk A Thin Line

  - 2006-12-18

  If a food craving strikes, try a manicure to "keep your hands occupied." This kind of tip is common fare on pro-"ana" anorexia and pro-"mia" bulimia Web sites. Well intended or not, they're not "benign," says Dr. Rebecka Peebles of Stanford University, coauthor of "Surfing for Thinness," published in Pediatrics...

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• Caring for Carcinoid Foundation Gives Grant to Stanford Researcher

  - 2006-12-13

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Seung Kim, PhD, associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation. Kim intends to develop a mouse model of the incurable disease. From this model he hopes to study the genetics...

  Tags: INTERNET, patient, Stanford, Stanford University

• Six vie for three seats on Menlo Park Council

  - 2006-10-17

  MENLO PARK -- In Menlo Park, projected budget shortfalls and controversial issues such as privatization of city services and adding sports fields to Bayfront Park have drawn out a contentious field of candidates split into two distinct camps. In one corner, incumbents Lee Duboc and Mickie Winkler...

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