Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or semi-independent of the university itself.
Independent laboratories, institutes and centers
These report directly to the vice-provost and dean of research and are outside any school though any faculty involved in them must belong to a department in one of the schools. These include
Bio-X and Spectrum in the area of Biological and Life Sciences;
Precourt Institute for Energy Precourt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Anthony Precourt (born 1969–70), American sports team owner
*Charles J. Precourt (born 1955), American astronaut
*Steve Precourt (born 1960), American politician
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and
Woods Institute for the Environment
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment serves as Stanford University’s environmental studies hub for faculty. An interdisciplinary research lab, Woods encompasses senior fellows and affiliated faculty as well as researchers, postdocto ...
in the Environmental Sciences area; the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) (see below), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) (see below), Human-Sciences and Technologies Advance Research Institute (H-STAR), Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL), Stanford Humanities Center (see below), and the
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences; and, for Physical Sciences, the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, the
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, the
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering (PULSE), Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES),
and W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL).
Center for the Study of Language and Information
The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) is an independent research center at Stanford University. Founded in 1983 by philosophers, computer scientists, linguists, and psychologists from Stanford,
SRI International, and
Xerox PARC, it strives to study all forms of
information and improve how humans and computers acquire and process it.
CSLI was initially funded by a US$15 million grant from the System Development Foundation (SDF) for the Situated Language Project, the name of which reflects the strong influence of the work on
situation semantics by philosophers
John Perry and
Jon Barwise, two of the initial leaders of CSLI. This funding supported operations for the first few years as well as the construction of Cordura Hall. Subsequent funding has come from research grants and from an industrial affiliates program.
CSLI's publications branch, founded and still headed by Dikran Karagueuzian, has grown into an important publisher of work in linguistics and related fields. Researchers associated with CSLI include
Ronald Kaplan,
Patrick Suppes,
Edward N. Zalta, the mathematicians
Keith Devlin, and
Solomon Feferman, the linguists
Ivan Sag
Ivan Andrew Sag (November 9, 1949 – September 10, 2013) was an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He did research in areas of syntax and semantics as well as work in computational linguistics.
Personal life
Born in Alliance, Ohio on N ...
and
Joan Bresnan,
Annie Zaenen,
Lauri Karttunen, and psychologists
Herb Clark,
B. J. Fogg
Brian Jeffrey Fogg (born August 7, 1963) is an American social scientist and author who is a research associate and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, formerly known as ...
and
Clifford Nass.
CSLI houses the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (''SEP'') combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Eac ...
. It also housed the
Reuters Digital Vision Program.
Directors
*
Jon Barwise 1983–1985
*
John Perry 1985–1986, 1993–1999
*
Thomas Wasow 1986–1987, 2006–2007
*
John Etchemendy 1990–1993
*
David Israel c. 1999–2000
*
Byron Reeves
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...
c. 2001–2005
*
Stanley Peters 2008–2013
*
Chris Potts
Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common.
People with the given name
* Chris Abani (born 1966), N ...
2013–present
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is a university-wide research and teaching institution at Stanford devoted to understanding international problems, policies, and institutions. The institute produces interdisciplinary scholarly research, engages in outreach to policymakers and public institutions throughout the world, and trains scholars and future leaders on international issues. Its teaching programs include the graduate-level Master of International Policy as well as honors programs in international security and in democracy, development, and the rule of law. The school is a full member of the
Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools of public policy, public administration, and international studies.
FSI's core and affiliated faculty represent a range of academic backgrounds and perspectives, including medicine, law, engineering, history, political science, economics, and sociology. The faculty's research and teaching focus on a variety of issues, including governance, domestic and international health policy, migration, development, and security. Their work often examines regional dynamics in areas such as Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. FSI faculty conduct research, lead interdisciplinary research programs, educate graduate and undergraduate students, and organize policy outreach that engages Stanford in addressing some of the world's most pressing problems.
The institute is composed of 12 centers and programs, including six major research centers:
*Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
*
Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
*Center for Health Policy, Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR)
*Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
*
The Europe Center
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center ...
(TEC)
* Walter H. Shorenstein Asia–Pacific Research Center (APARC)
History
The institute was founded in 1987 following a faculty committee review that concluded Stanford "should be leading the way in International Studies as we do in science and technology", encompassing interdisciplinary teaching, research, public service and administrative functions. It was first called the institute for International Studies, and was created under the direction of former Stanford president
Richard Wall Lyman
Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an Education in the United States, American educator, historian, and professor.
Biography
An historian of the Labour Party (UK), British L ...
.
The institute was renamed the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2005 following a $50 million gift made by Stanford alumni
Bradford M. Freeman
Bradford M. "Brad" Freeman is an American businessman and conservative political fundraiser.
Career
Freeman was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, and attended Stanford University on a football scholarship. He received an MBA from Harvard B ...
and
Ronald P. Spogli
Ronald P. Spogli (born 1948) is an American venture capitalist and politician. He is the former United States Ambassador to Italy and to San Marino. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 30, 2005, after being nominated by President George W ...
.
The immediate past director of FSI was
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, the former Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, a former official in the Obama and Clinton presidential administrations, and current justice of the California Supreme Court. Previous directors include Stanford President Emeritus
Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) is a political scientist who is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University o ...
;
Coit D. Blacker
Coit Dennis Blacker is the Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs a ...
, who served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Russian,
Ukrainian and
Eurasian Affairs at the
National Security Council
A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...
under
National Security Advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils.
National sec ...
Anthony Lake during the
Clinton administration
Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following a decisive election victory over Re ...
; David Holloway; Walter Falcon; and Stanford President Emeritus
Richard Lyman.
FSI appoints faculty and research staff, funds research and scholarly initiatives, directs research projects, and sponsors lectures, policy seminars and conferences. By tradition, FSI undertakes joint faculty appointments with Stanford's seven schools and draws faculty together from the university's academic departments and schools to conduct interdisciplinary research on international issues that transcend academic boundaries.
The institute is home to 40 billeted faculty members – most with joint appointments – and 115 affiliated faculty members with a wide range of academic perspectives.
In addition to its six centers, the institute sponsors the
Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, the
Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, the Rural Education Action Program, the
Stanford Center at Peking University, and the
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education.
Directors
* 2015–present
Michael McFaul
* 2013–2015
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
* 2012–2013
Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) is a political scientist who is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University o ...
* 2003–2012
Coit D. Blacker
Coit Dennis Blacker is the Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs a ...
* 1998–2003 David Holloway
* 1991–1998
Walter Falcon
* 1987–1991
Richard Wall Lyman
Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an Education in the United States, American educator, historian, and professor.
Biography
An historian of the Labour Party (UK), British L ...
Stanford Humanities Center
Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts.
History
Since its founding in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center has been sponsoring advanced research into the historical, philosophical, literary, artistic, and cultural dimensions of the human experience. The Humanities Center's annual fellows, international visitors, research workshops, digital humanities laboratory, and roughly fifty annual public events strengthen the intellectual and creative life of the university, foster innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, and enrich our understanding of our common humanity. The humanities support democratic culture by nurturing an informed citizenry and seeking solutions to society's most formidable challenges.
Fellowships
The center offers approximately twenty-five year-long residential fellowships to Stanford and non-Stanford scholars at different career stages, giving them the opportunity to pursue their research in a supportive intellectual community.
Research Workshops
Each year, Stanford faculty and graduate students create fifteen diverse research workshops to ask new intellectual questions that often challenge disciplinary boundaries. In addition to providing a space for incubating new ideas in a collegial setting, the workshops professionalize graduate students by introducing them to the conventions of academic life.
Manuscript Review Workshops
Assembling a team of faculty experts from Stanford and other universities, the Manuscript Review workshops provide critical feedback to junior faculty preparing monographs or other academic manuscripts of similar scope for submission for publication.
Public Lectures
The center brings eminent scholars, public intellectuals, and renowned critics to the Stanford campus for lectures and interdisciplinary conferences that enrich the Stanford community with a lively exchange of ideas. Speakers have included
Isabel Allende,
Roger Chartier,
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...
,
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...
,
Gayatri Spivak,
Marilynne Robinson,
David Adjaye,
David Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. Eggers is also the founder of ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', a lite ...
, and other well-known scholars.
Digital Humanities
The Humanities Center, with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), is expanding the possibilities of humanities research and teaching at Stanford by creating opportunities for the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge. Humanities Center scholars are on the forefront of innovation with access to new digital tools to interpret the human experience.
International Visitors Program
The center's short-term visitorships draw distinguished international scholars to Stanford to share their research in lectures and seminars with Stanford faculty and students.
Hume Undergraduate Fellowships
The Humanities Center awards Hume Humanities Honors Fellowships to Stanford seniors writing an honors thesis in a humanities department. In residence for an academic year, Hume fellows contribute to the collegial life of the center and receive intellectual guidance and mentoring from staff and fellows.
Directors
*
Ian P. Watt, 1980–1985
*Bliss Carnochan, 1985–1991
*Herbert Lindenberger, 1991–1992 (interim)
*Wanda Corn, 1992–1995
*Keith Baker, 1995–2000
*Peter Stansky, 2000–2001
*John Bender, 2001–2008
*Aron Rodrigue, 2008–2013
*Caroline Winterer, 2013–present
Distinguished Careers Institute
The
Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI), established in 2014, is a year-long residential fellowship for approximately 20 individuals who have already established leadership careers. Fellows are selected based on "how their participation in the program will shape their future life journeys" as well as "what future Fellows will contribute to the program and the broader global community."
Stanford High School Program
The collaboration among Stanford University's office for Digital Education, the Department of Computer Science, and the Graduate School of Education established Stanford's first dual-enrollment program for high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, which served as an impetus for the establishment of the Qualia Global Scholars Program.
Other research centers
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (also known as the Stanford AI Lab, or SAIL) is the
artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory of
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
. The current director is Professor Chris Manning.
Early years
SAIL was started in 1963 by
John McCarthy, after he moved from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Stanford.
Lester D. "Les" Earnest, also previously of MIT, served as executive officer (self-deprecatingly, "Chief Bureaucrat") at SAIL from 1965 to 1980.
During the same years, SAIL was housed in the D.C. Power building, named not for "
Direct Current" but rather for
Donald Clinton Power, who held the positions of president, C.E.O. and chairman of General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (later
GTE Corporation) between 1951 and 1971. GT&E donated the unfinished building to Stanford University after abandoning plans to establish a research center there.
During this period SAIL was one of the leading centers for AI research and an early
ARPANET site.
D.C. Power was on a hill overlooking Felt Lake in the foothills of the
Santa Cruz Mountains
The Santa Cruz Mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States. They form a ridge down the San Francisco Peninsula, south of San Francisco. They separate the Pacific Ocean from ...
behind Stanford.
It was about 5 miles (8 km) from the main campus, at 1600 Arastradero Road, midway between Page Mill Road and Alpine Road.
This area was, and remains, quite rural in nature. Combined with the rather extreme 1960s architecture of the place, this remote setting led to a certain isolation.
Some people who worked there reported feeling as if they were already in the future. The building was demolished in 1986; as of 2003, the site is home to Portola Pastures (an equestrian center adjacent to the
Arastradero Open Space Preserve).
SAIL created the
WAITS operating system on a computer called SAIL.
WAITS ran on various models of
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP computers, starting with the
PDP-6, then the
KA10
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983. 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, espec ...
and
KL10. WAITS also ran on
Foonly systems at
CCRMA and
LLL. The SAIL system was shut down in 1991.
SAIL, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and
Bob Sproull of the Stanford AI Lab in 1970.
Alumni of the original SAIL played a major role in many
Silicon Valley firms, becoming founders of now-large firms such as
Cisco Systems and
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...
as well as smaller companies such as
Vicarm Inc. (acquired by
Unimation),
Foonly,
Elxsi
Elxsi Corporation was a minicomputer manufacturing company established in the late 1970s in Silicon Valley, USA, along with a host of competitors (Trilogy Systems, Sequent, Convex Computer). The Elxsi processor was an Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) de ...
, Imagen,
Xidex
Anacomp, Inc., is an American company that specializes in computer services and document management. It was founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1968 by Ronald D. Palamara, Robert R. Sadaka, and J. Melvin Ebbert, three professors at Purdue Univ ...
,
Valid Logic Systems, and
D.E. Shaw & Co. Research accomplishments at SAIL were many, including in the fields of
speech recognition and
robotics.
[The autobiography of SAIL](_blank)
a copy of a 1991 email about SAIL, from a Stanford website Among notable people that had worked at SAIL before its closure included
Raj Reddy,
Hans Moravec
Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on ...
,
Alan Kay,
Victor Scheinman,
Larry Tesler,
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer sci ...
, and
Edward Feigenbaum.
Demise and rebirth
In 1980, SAIL's activities were merged into the university's Computer Science Department and it moved into Margaret Jacks Hall on the main Stanford campus.
SAIL was reopened in 2004, now in the
Gates Computer Science Building, with
Sebastian Thrun becoming its new director. SAIL's 21st century mission is to "change the way we understand the world";
its researchers contribute to fields such as
bioinformatics
Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...
,
cognition
Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, ...
,
computational geometry
Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...
,
computer vision
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...
,
decision theory,
distributed systems,
game theory
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...
,
general game playing,
image processing
An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
,
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
,
knowledge systems
A knowledge-based system (KBS) is a computer program that automated reasoning, reasons and uses a knowledge base to problem solving, solve complex systems, complex problems. The term is broad and refers to many different kinds of systems. The one c ...
,
logic,
machine learning,
multi-agent systems,
natural language
In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation. Natural languages ...
,
neural networks
A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...
,
planning
Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is consi ...
,
probabilistic inference,
sensor networks, and
robotics.
The best-known achievement of the new SAIL is the
Stanley self-driving car that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
is a multidisciplinary business oriented program targeted to both undergraduate and
graduate students. It incorporates courses from
Stanford University School of Engineering and
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...
. It also incorporates Stanford Mayfield Scholars Program that seeks to give select undergraduate students an opportunity to take business related coursework and to
intern in high tech
startup
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend t ...
s. CES was founded by
Tom Byers and
Charles A. Holloway.
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), founded by
John Chowning, is a multi-discipline facility where composers and
researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA's director is
Chris Chafe
Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, holding ...
. CCRMA's current faculty includes a mix of musicians and engineers including
Julius Smith,
Jonathan Berger
Jonathan Berger (born 1954) is an American composer. His works include opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral and electro-acoustic music. He has been commissioned by major ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet ...
,
Max Mathews (emeritus),
Ge Wang, Takako Fujioka, Tom Rossing, Jonathan Abel,
Marina Bosi, David Berners, Patricia Alessandrini, Jay Kadis, and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano. Emeritus professor
Max Mathews died in 2011.
Widely used digital sound synthesis techniques like
FM synthesis and
digital waveguide synthesis Digital waveguide synthesis is the synthesis of audio using a digital waveguide. Digital waveguides are efficient computational models for physical media through which acoustic waves propagate. For this reason, digital waveguides constitute a ma ...
were developed at CCRMA and licensed to industry partners. The FM synthesis patent brought Stanford $20 million before it expired, making it (in 1994) "the second most lucrative licensing agreement in Stanford's history".
Stanford CCRMA is a research center, studying areas of audio and technology including
composition,
computer music,
physical modeling,
audio signal processing,
sound recording and reproduction,
psychoacoustics,
acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician ...
,
music information retrieval, audio networking, and
spatial sound.
The center houses academic courses for Stanford students as well as seminars, small interest group meetings, summer workshops and colloquia for the broader community.
Concerts of computer and experimental music are presented regularly throughout year.
The Knoll
Almost 100 years ago, this
Spanish Gothic
Spanish Gothic architecture is the style of architecture prevalent in Spain in the Late Medieval period.
The Gothic style started in Spain as a result of Central European influence in the twelfth century when late Romanesque alternated with few ...
residence, known as the Knoll, was originally designed by
Louis Christian Mullgardt
Louis Christian Mullgardt (1866-1942) was an American architect associated with the First Bay Tradition. He designed houses in Berkeley, Oakland and other cities; the Court of the Ages at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition; th ...
, and built as a residence for the university's president. In 1946, the building became home to the Music Department, and then in 1986, CCRMA took over residency.
Damaged in 1989 during the
Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of t ...
, the Knoll nonetheless housed CCRMA in its damaged condition until a complete internal reconstruction between 2004 and 2005. The reopening of the facility was celebrated in the Spring of 2005 with the CCRMA: newStage Festival. This unique building now comprises several state-of-the-art music studios and top-notch research facilities, hosting a variety of students, artists and scientists.
CCRMA is affiliated with the
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH), also located at Stanford. CCARH conducts research on constructing computer databases for music and on creating programs that allow researchers to access, analyze, print, and electronically perform the music.
Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa)
The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa), established in 2006, serves as the core programmatic hub for the
Stanford Arts Initiative
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center ...
, leading the development of new undergraduate arts programs, hosting artists in residence, awarding grants for multidisciplinary arts research and teaching, incubating collaborative performances and exhibitions with campus partners and other institutions, and providing centralized communication for arts events and programs at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
.
National Performance of Dams Program
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering maintains the National Performance of Dams Program, a national database of structural and operational data related to dam systems in the U.S. Begun in 1994, this program provides data to the dam engineering and safety community about the in-service performance of dam systems. The analysis of this data covering both successful operations and incidents, including failures, is intended to lead to improvements in design and requirements, engineering processes and standards, operational procedures and guidelines, and public policy development.
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Founded in 1974, and named after economist
Michelle R. Clayman, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
is one of the nation's oldest research organizations focused on the study of
gender. The Clayman Institute designs basic
interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
research, creates knowledge, networks people and ideas at Stanford, nationally, and internationally to effect change and promote
gender equality. The Clayman Institute plays an integral role in the Stanford community by bringing together local, national and international scholars and thought leaders from across disciplines to create knowledge and effect change. The place where the Clayman Institute is located was renamed the
Carolyn Lewis Attneave House in 2019.
It was formerly named Serra House after
Junípero Serra
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, image = FrancescoCoA PioM.svg
, image_size ...
.
History
In 1972 faculty and graduate students in the
feminist movement were the impetus behind the formation of the institute. In 1974, the Center for Research on Women (CROW) was the first interdisciplinary center or institute of its kind and quickly built a strong reputation under the direction of
Myra Strober, the founding
Director. The reputation of CIGR grew outside Stanford, and the
University of Chicago Press chose Stanford as the base of the second five-year rotation of its new interdisciplinary journal, ''
Signs
Signs may refer to:
* ''Signs'' (2002 film), a 2002 film by M. Night Shyamalan
* ''Signs'' (TV series) (Polish: ''Znaki'') is a 2018 Polish-language television series
* ''Signs'' (journal), a journal of women's studies
*Signs (band), an American ...
''.
In 1983 the institute was renamed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and continued to expand the gender conversation with the “Difficult
Dialogues” program, which ran in the 1990s through 2004. In 2004, the new director, Professor
Londa Schiebinger, a
historian of science, formed a plan to create a series of research initiatives on gender issues, backed by a research fellowship program, that would attract scholars from Stanford and abroad. With the help of matching funds from the
Hewlett Foundation and strong support from the institute's Advisory Council, Schiebinger spearheaded a fundraising drive to create an endowment for the institute. IRWG was renamed in honor of Michelle R. Clayman, the major donor in the campaign, who serves as the chair of the institute's Advisory Council.
Research
The Clayman Institute designs basic research and supports the creation of knowledge through its Fellowships and interdisciplinary programs. Recent reports/
publications include:
* Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, Londa Schiebinger, ed., 2008.
* Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know. The Michelle R. Clayman Institute, 2008. This Clayman Institute research study shows that over 70% of faculty are in dual-career relationships. This report tackles tough questions and recommends policies to maximize options.
* Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Information Technology. The Michelle R. Clayman Institute and the
Anita Borg Institute, 2008. This report provides an in-depth look into the barriers to
retention and advancement of technical women in
Silicon Valley's high tech industry and provides practical recommendations to employers on overcoming these barriers.
Fellowships
The Clayman Institute runs two fellowship programs. The
Faculty
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* Faculty (academic staff), the academic staff of a university (North American usage)
* Faculty (division), a division within a university (usage outside of the United States)
* Faculty (instrument)
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Research Fellowships seek to drive intellectual and social innovation through interdisciplinary gender studies. They include residential fellowships for tenured, tenure-track, and postdoctoral scholars from Stanford University, and U.S. and foreign universities. The Clayman Institute also offers Graduate
Dissertation Fellowships for Stanford University doctoral students. Fellowships are awarded to students who are in the writing stages of their dissertations, and whose research focuses on women and/or gender.
Directors
*1974–77 Myra Strober
*1977–79 Diane Middlebrook
*1979–84 Myra Strober
*1984–85
Marilyn Yalom (deputy director, as acting director)
*1985–86 Judith Brown (acting director)
*1986–90 Deborah Rhode
*1990–97
Iris Litt
*1997–2001
Laura Carstensen
*2001–04 Barbara Gelpi (acting director)
*2004–10 Londa Schiebinger
*2010–present Shelley J. Correll
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
Stanford is home to the
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute which grew out of and still contains the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, a collaboration with the
King Center to publish the King papers held by the King Center.
Stanford Internet Observatory
The Stanford Internet Observatory is a is a multidisciplinary program for the study of abuse in information technologies, with a focus on
social media, established in 2019. It is part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, a joint initiative of the
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and
Stanford Law School.
Affiliations
Stanford's Center for Computer Research and Acoustics is part of a consortium with
CNMAT
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...
and the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (
IRCAM) in Paris.
See also
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Hoover Institution , a conservative think tank which is affiliated with Stanford University. The Hoover Institution staffed numerous positions in the
Trump administration.
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a particle physics research facility. Run by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the
United States Department of Energy
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SRI International, originally the Stanford Research Institute, but independent since 1970
References
External links
Dean of Research list of Independent Laboratories, Institutes and CentersSAIL homepageCCRMA homepage** Searchable CCRMA archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20090118104407/http://www.nabble.com/CCRMA-f2875.html
CSLI's websiteOfficial Web Site of FSIArts Initiative/SiCa WebsiteStanford Humanities Center main websiteNational Performance of Dams Program (NPDP)Michelle R. Clayman Institute*Oral history interviews on the Michelle R. Clayman Institute wit
Nannerl Keohanean
Marilyn Yalom Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program
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Terry WinogradRaj ReddyBruce Buchananan
Allen Newell Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...
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