This is a real treat. Stanford University’s Ian Hsu setup a tour for a fairly large group of photographers. We met Patience Young, who gave us a tour of the Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte who told us a story about the Burghers of Calais, and Gabe Hoffman and the ...

Photographers, don’t miss this one! It’s an interview with Thomas Hawk and Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor, who is jointly appointed in computer science and electrical engineering. But that’s the geeky way of explaining this dude is doing some radical stuff with cameras. He shows us a camera that ...

Editor’s Choice. Here my editor, Rocky (The Rocman) pulled out some highlights of the interview we did with Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor who is doing exceptional photographic research.

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check out. Anyway, here you meet the team: Gabe Hoffmann, ...

A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University.

Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch of other companies). This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for ...

Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving in a much different way than you or I do. ...

Burton Richter is professor emeritus at Stanford University, a 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy. This is the last in our five-part series with Richter.

Part four of our interview with nuclear energy expert, Stanford University Professor Emeritus and 1976 Nobel Prize Winner Burton Richter.

The third installment of our interview with Burton Richter, professor emeritus at Stanford University, 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy.

Listen to the second part of the interview with Burton Richter, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy.

Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of which started at Stanford). Mobile development. What his students ...

David Orenstein, Communications and PR Manager, and Ian Hsu, director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University, greet me and show me around the “Gates building,” aka the Computer Science building. We were there to interview Scott Klemmer, assistant professor in the computer science department.

Grieg Coppe (managing partner, Accenture) continues his moderation of the discussion about the future of the Internet with Nick McKeown (professor, Stanford University), Andy Bechtolsheim and Phil McKinney (VP & CTO, Personal Systems Group, HP) during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit07. In part two, the topics ...

I know: nuclear energy has long had a bad name in the US. I believe, however, that it is an essential part of our future energy portfolio. Nuclear energy is clean, its generation is efficient, its resources are still abundant. Yes, nuclear waste treatment is a great concern. But, what ...

Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) continues his discussion of the new news during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, Topix), Dan Cohen (CEO, Pageflakes) all contribute ...

Newspapers, social networks, ad rates, and participatory journalism are all among the topics moderated by Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

He’s funny, articulate and generally regarded as a visionary. In this interview Guy Kawasaki talks about his latest venture, Truemors.com, but not until he tells us why “life is good” for anyone wanting to venture out on the net. Whether you watch this for the advice or the ...

Meet Y2E2, Stanford University’s new green Environment and Energy building, in the making. In this podcast we interview Jeffrey R Koseff, director of Woods Institute for the Environment. He tells us that Y2E2 aims at using 50 percent less energy and 90 percent less water, compared to an “ordinary” ...

A few facts: in the U.S., residential and commercial space accounts for 40 percent of our primary energy consumption and 38 percent of CO2 emissions are from operating buildings. Why, then, is so little attention paid to building energy efficient offices and residences? Prof. Gil Masters from Stanford University wants ...

Yogen Dalal is the managing director at Mayfield Fund, in Silicon Valley. I caught up with Yogen at the Pan IIT Global meet, where we talked about IIT, Mayfield’s India strategy and entrepreneurship.

In the interview, Yogen answers some tough questions, like what to do if your venture fails, ...