Students can now change the world with a computer and a healthy supply of junk food. We live in a time of exponential technological growth where people in our generation are the knowledge leaders. So, you may ask, “What has this got to do with student government?” The answer is everything — and here’s why.
University President John Hennessy is set to meet with President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and other Silicon Valley business leaders this evening at a private dinner peppered with Stanford connections.
“The 21st century is all about surprises, and the spread of technology is the wild card,” said Jared Cohen ’04 during a talk sponsored by Stanford in Government on Wednesday night about how technology is shaping international relations.
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Google will test run its highly coveted fiber-optic, high-speed broadband network on faculty homes at Stanford.
President Obama’s motorcade is scheduled to skim past the Stanford campus this evening as Obama returns to the Bay Area today for two Democratic fundraisers.
Stanford alumni Ben Eidelson ’08 M.A. ’08 and Jason Prado ’08 sold their company last week to Google for an estimated six million dollars.
Net neutrality… Vaughn Walker… Admission, Shaw and The Princeton Review… Regenerative tissue… SLAC lease… Conference season… Stanford news from around the Web for Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.