- Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State.
- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- Donald Knuth
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a faculty member of Caltech, he was called upon to be a long-term substitute organist at Faith Lutheran Church in Pasadena, California. He became a member of the American Guild of Organists in 1965, and saw his first Abbott and Sieker organ at that time.
- Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (1937 -) was the 9th president of Stanford University from 1992-2000. He is currently the " Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education" at Stanford.
- Philip Zimbardo
Hi my name is Philip Zimbardo and i teach Psychology at Stanford Univerity.
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Douglas D. Osheroff
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson for discovering the superfluidic nature of <sup>3<;/sup>He. This discovery was made in 1971, while Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell. Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he was a student of Richard Feynman.
- Andrew Fire
Andrew Zachary Fire (born on April 27th 1959) is an American professor of genetics at Stanford University. Fire is one of the laureates of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Fire is currently professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, …
- John Etchemendy
John W. Etchemendy is Stanford University's twelfth and current Provost. He succeeded John L. Hennessy to the post on September 1, 2000. John Etchemendy was born in Reno, Nevada and received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Nevada, Reno before earning his PhD in philosophy at Stanford in 1982. He has been a faculty member in Stanford's Department of Philosophy since 1983, …
- Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918) is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He has also been awarded the Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, …
- John McCarthy
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. McCarthy championed mathematical logic for Artificial Intelligence.
- Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program. SHRDLU was written in the years from 1968-70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language.
- Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
- Steven Chu
Steven Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, …
- Sepandar Kamvar
Sepandar David Kamvar (born August 6, 1977), also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is the technical lead of personalization at Google and a professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University
- Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
- Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "Father of expert systems." Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, jointly with Raj Reddy in 1994 "For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, …
- Tom Campbell
Thomas J. (Tom) Campbell (b. August 14, 1952) returned as dean of the Haas School of Business and a professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley after a leave of absence to serve as the Director of Finance for the State of California in 2004 and 2005. He previously served five nonconsecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican.
- William Perry
William James Perry (born October 11, 1927) is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. He had been Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1994.
- Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone.
- Richard E. Taylor
Professor Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC, Ph.D., M.Sc, B.Sc (born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian-American professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and the laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics.
- Hector García Garcia-Molina
Héctor García Molina is a Mexican computer scientist. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and is a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
- Robin Milner
Robin Milner FRS (born 1934, Plymouth, England) is a prominent British computer scientist.
- Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, CC, Ph.D., FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936 in Vancouver) is a Canadian university professor and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the University of Cambridge (1958), where he was a student at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Hacking also took his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1962), under the direction of Casimir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's.
- W. E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner (usually known as W.E. Moerner), born 1953, received his B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering and his A.B. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1975 followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1978 and 1982, respectively. W.E. Moerner is the Harry S. Mosher Professor at Stanford University in the Chemistry department, with a courtesy appointment in Applied Physics.
- Peter Galison
Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include "Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics" (1997) and "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time".
- Robert Sapolsky
Robert Maurice Sapolsky (b. 1957) is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University.
- Mark Granovetter
Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist who has created some of the most influential theories in modern sociology since the 1970s. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in a community known as "The Strength of Weak Ties" (1973).
- John Perry
John R. Perry (b. 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, and self-knowledge.
- Scotty McLennan
The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. - better known as "Scotty McLennan" - was born on November 21, 1948. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, professor, published author, and administrator at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Since January 1, 2001, McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, where he oversees non-academic religious affairs on campus, is the minister of Stanford Memorial Church, …
- George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (8 November 1914 - 13 May 2005) was an American mathematician who introduced the simplex algorithm and is considered the "father of linear programming". He was the recipient of many honors, including the National Medal of Science in 1975, and the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1974. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899).
- Siegfried S. Hecker
Siegfried S. Hecker is co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He was director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997. William Liou was a research assistant at the Center for International Security and Cooperation while working at Sandia National Laboratories as a graduate student intern.
- James H. Clark
Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering of computer images. He is also a devoted sailor and the owner of several high-tech sailboats that he has helped to design.
- John C. Bravman
Professor John C. Bravman serves as the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the School of Engineering, and Bing Centennial Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Professor Bravman earned his Bachelor's ('79), Master's ('81) and Ph.D. ('85) degrees from Stanford in Materials Science & Engineering.
- Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943) is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego. Cartwright is the president-elect of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association. Her PhD in philosophy was earned at the University of Illinois at Chicago under the direction of Brian Skyrms. She previously taught at Stanford University and was married to the philosopher Stuart Hampshire, now deceased.
- Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted). His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment.
- Lawrence J. Lau
Professor Lawrence J. Lau is a Hong Kong economist and the Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before coming to the CUHK he was an economics professor at Stanford University.
- Norman Shumway
Norman E. Shumway, M.D. (February 9 1923 - February 10 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was famous for being the first doctor to successfully carry out an open heart transplant operation in the USA in 1968, after Christiaan Barnard's 1967 operation in South Africa. The early years of the procedure were chequered with few patients surviving for long after it finished.
- Roger D. Kornberg
Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" which explains the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA. His father, Arthur Kornberg, who is also a professor at Stanford University, …