In 1963, there was no Internet, computers were anything but personal, and BASIC still had that new-programming-language smell [source: CHM]. Yet, two decades before Apple rolled out the Macintosh, Douglas Engelbart, a professor at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, Calif., drea...
Drug discovery has traditionally been a slow, expensive process, often taking over a decade and billions of dollars to bring a new medicine to market. Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug for cancer, took over 11 years to develop—research began in 2003, and it was finally approved by the FDA in...
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
The startup was granted permission by Stanford Medical School to start the trial last week, in collaboration with researchers at UC Berkeley, Stanford and ETH Zurich The sensitivity of private patient data is a looming problem. AI algorithms trained on data from different hospitals could potentially...
A series of studies over the last year show how generative AI can boost productivity for people doing various jobs. Economists at Stanford and MIT have found that thoseworking in call centers are 14% more productive when using AI conversational assistance;notably, there was a 35% improvement in...
It was founded in 1974 by the heir to the Schlumberger oil-field company Philippa de Menil (whose family has been termed the Medici of modern art), art dealer and collector Heiner Friedrich, and art historian Helen Winkler. Its current director is Jessica Morgon, former curator at Tate and ...
studio's first public park outside of the US - Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Charles has also led the design of much of DS+R's academic portfolio, with projects completed at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Brown University, the University of Chicago, and the recently completed Columbia Business...
A 2010 study by Stanford University researchers Elissa Lee and Laura Leets, who measured teenagers' reaction to hate groups' Web sites, found that storytelling with implicit hate messages, rather than direct exhortations to hate, is the most effective way to persuade impressionable minds [source:...
Jens Molbak thought of the idea of Coinstar while he was a Stanford University graduate student. He thought about the jar of coins sitting on top of his dresser in his dorm room and realized there wasn't a good way to put those coins to use. In 1989, he interviewed supermarke...
“There are significantly more people working in the country,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last week in a speech at Stanford University. Largely because of the immigrant influx, Powell said, “it’s a bigger economy but not a tighter one. Really an unexpected and an unusual thing....