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Online Seminars| View »
The Stanford Center for Professional Development offers a series of seminars and lectures free of charge to the public. Seminars are taught by Stanford faculty, senior researchers, and industry professionals.
Entrepreneurship Educator's Corner | View »
The Stanford Technology Ventures Program hosts an Educator's Corner — a free archive of high-technology entrepreneurship teaching resources, such as podcasts, video clips, case studies, course outlines.
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Research movie gallery
Professors and students in the school often engage in research with an interesting and fun visual component. The following movies make for interesting and enjoyable viewing.
- Imagine the future | View »
The video gallery on this page will introduce you to what Stanford Engineering is all about with profiles of two great research examples and one terrific class.
- Stanford Racing Team
- The team's car Stanley won the DARPA Grand Challenge Oct. 8, 2005, finishing a 132-mile desert course entirely on its own in less than seven hours.| View »
- Stanley's successor Junior took second place in the DARPA Urban Challenge Nov. 3, 2007. The car safely drove through 55 miles of traffic-laden roads, obeying traffic laws and accomplishing a series of missions. | View »
- Green Dorm flythrough | View (.MOV - Quicktime) »
A student in a class about designing a Green Dorm on campus made this movie, depicting a possible concept for the building.
- STAIR | View »
A "dream team" of Stanford artificial intelligence researchers is building a robot that will be smart enough to be a personal aide. Work began in the Summer of 2005 and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot can already open doors and grab objects.
- Solar car project | View »
Students in the school have been building and racing solar-powered cars at Stanford since 1986. In 2005 they won the stock-car class in the American Solar Challenge. This video documents the preparations for that race.
- A brain-computer interface | View »
In a bid to help paralyzed people, the research group of electrical engineering Assistant Professsor Krishna Shenoy has developed a way to control a computer cursor directly from the brain. The method, tested in monkeys, has four-times better performance than any other system.
- Advance in flexible electronics | View (Windows Media) »
Chemical engineering Associate Professor Zhenan Bao demonstrates flexible arrays of high-performance organic transistors in this video.
- A 'traffic light' for neurons advances brain research | View »
Bioengineering Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth has found a way to turn brain cells on and off using pulses of light. The technique opens new doors for brain research and could eventually yield therapies for conditions such as Alzheimer's Disease and depression.
- Construction of the Environment and Energy building | View »
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building is projected to use 50 percent less energy and 90 percent less water than a traditional building of comparable scale. It is scheduled to open Nov. 15, 2007
iTunes at Stanford | View »
Listen for free to a wide variety of events on campus, from lectures and talks to music to sports events. This service requires installing Apple's free iTunes software. Below are some of our favorite direct links:
Computer Science 40th Anniversary | View »
Watch videos of all the sessions of the Computer Science Department's 40th Anniversary Symposium. Panels included founding faculty of the department, alumni teaching computer science in other departments, visionaries among the department's active faculty and famous Stanford entrepreneurs. University President John Hennessy (also a CS professor) was the keynote speaker. A simple, free registration with the Stanford Center for Professional Development is required to view these videos.
Camp EDAY 2007: Engineering From Head to Toe | View »
Hundreds of alumni and their children had a blast July 21, 2007 as they learned about how bioengineering research and innovations are advancing human health. To view videos of most of the sessions, simply click the video links to the right of the session titles.
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