CS senior identifies bug in Adobe Flash Player
Stanford computer scientist Feross Aboukhadijeh ’11 recently discovered a bug in the widely used Adobe Flash Player that allowed malicious websites access to a Flash user’s webcam and microphone.
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Sahami’s quirky teaching a draw for students
It’s 3:10 p.m., Monday afternoon. Over 600 students are crammed into Hewlett 200 like canned sardines. The students who arrived 20 minutes earlier are fortunate enough to find seats. Other students must seat themselves in the aisles. The rumble of animated chatter dies down when they are all greeted by an energetic, bespectacled man–associate professor of computer science Mehran Sahami ’92 M.S., ’93 Ph.D. ’99.
CS106A enrollment numbers reach record high
Enrollment in the introductory computer science (CS) course CS106A has exceeded 660 students for autumn quarter 2011, a record high for all courses in the… Continue Reading »
Letter to the Editor: Think Again
I was extremely disappointed to read Wednesday’s Editorial. Although I understand the writers’ motivation to argue that many Stanford students studying technologically-oriented majors love their fields, the piece is filled with flawed logic and a dangerously mistaken frame in which to place the argument they seek to make. I am embarrassed that people outside of the Farm could see the editorial and judge Stanford and its students by such a misguided account of Stanford academics and culture.
Editorial: Techies aren’t “sheep”
You wouldn’t know it from the placid warmth of spring on the Farm, but there’s a battle raging for the soul of Stanford. Even as the University has launched efforts to save the humanities from waning student interest, more and more of the undergraduate population is devoting itself to the study of technical majors, a development that speaks volumes about the present and future of Stanford.
Stanford explores NYC engineering campus
University President John Hennessy announced during Thursday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting that Stanford is investigating the invitation to establish a New York City campus focused on applied science and technology.
Sent From my iPhone: The Death of All Idealism
By far my favorite part of “The Social Network” was the line “And Stanford. It’s time for them to see this in Palo Alto.” The Facebook was great and all, but if Zuckerberg wanted to make it big, he had to go to California, just like the gold rushers and aspiring movie stars before him…
The Daily brief: Sept. 7, 2010
Staff training starts…Computer Science majors still hired…AP poll ranks football… Stanford news from around the Web for Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010.