In ‘How to Rule the World,’ Theo Baker sizes up the ‘Stanford-within-Stanford’

"Baker’s book is as much about Stanford — as a place, idea and institution — as it is about what it means to be young," writes Cunningham.

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A computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x

Binary search is the page-flipping trick everyone learns in their first programming class: to find a word in a sorted list, look at the middle, decide whether your target is in the top or bottom half, and repeat. It has been considered close to optimal since the 1940s. — Read the rest

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A New Wave of Education: From undergraduates to Ph.D.s, how is AI shifting classroom policies?

Due to rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, professors now face the challenge of creating classroom policies and curricula that teach students how to walk the line between beneficial and unethical uses of AI to give students the tools to learn, but also prepare them for a world that AI is incorporated into. A recent […]

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Friend Not Foe

College students have always had a ready answer to the question: “What are you doing after graduation?” At Stanford, whose mission statement promises “academic excellence across the broadest array of disciplines,” those responses have remained as varied as ever. Lately, though, they’ve come with a qualifier:“…if it’s not replaced by AI.” For Annie Lee ’27, […]

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Stanford alumni sisters, remembered for their kindness, killed in deadly Tahoe avalanche

Liz Clabaugh ’95 and Caroline Sekar ’03 were victims of the Sierra Nevada avalanche that killed nine people. Stanford friends shared their memories of the sisters.

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