Stanford University Computer Science
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The Computer Science Department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, is a leading school for computer science. It was founded in 1965 and has consistently been ranked as one of the top computer science programs in the world. Its location in Silicon Valley makes it unique among computer science programs.
History
The Stanford University Computer Science Department was founded in 1965 by George Forsythe.
Academics
The CS department grants B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.
Gates Computer Science Building
The Gates Computer Science Building, or "Gates Building" houses the Computer Science Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory. It also houses 550 faculty, staff and students. The building was named after Bill Gates, who donated $6 million of its total cost of $38 million. It was constructed over two years and completed in 1996.
People
Alumni
- Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Orkut Büyükkökten, founder of Orkut
- Will Harvey, entrepreneur
- Reed Hastings, Netflix founder
- Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
- Joe Lonsdale, founder of Addepar and Palantir Technologies
- Larry Page, co-founder of Google
- Blake Ross, co-creator of Mozilla Firefox
- Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook
- David E. Shaw, hedge fund manager, D. E. Shaw & Co.
- Charles Simonyi, inventor of Microsoft Word, former chief architect at Microsoft
Faculty
- Vinton Cerf, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Douglas Engelbart, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Edward Feigenbaum, Turing award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of Dendral
- Robert Floyd, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Gene Golub, former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
- Leonidas J. Guibas, Allan Newell award winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
- John L. Hennessy, pioneer in RISC, President of Stanford
- Sir Antony Hoare, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- John Hopcroft, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Alan Kay, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- John Koza, pioneer in genetic programming
- Daphne Koller, professor in CS, co-founder of Coursera
- Donald Knuth, professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of TeX, author of The Art of Computer Programming, Turing award winner
- Barbara Liskov, the first woman earning a ph.d in CS (from Stanford), Turing award winning computer scientist
- Edward McCluskey, professor in EE, IEEE John Von Neumann Prize winner
- John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language and time sharing, Turing award winner
- Robert Metcalfe, former faculty, co-inventor of Ethernet, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Allen Newell Turing award winning computer scientist
- Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 Computers and Thought Award
- John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper award
- Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Ronald Rivest former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Raj Reddy, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Tim Roughgarden, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper award
- Arthur Samuel, former faculty, a pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Dana Scott former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Robert Tarjan, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- Sebastian Thrun director of Stanford AI LAB, team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley won 2005 DARPA grand challenge.
- Jeff Ullman, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
- Niklaus Wirth former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist, inventor of PASCAL
- Terry Winograd, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 Computers and Thought Award
- Andrew Yao, former faculty, Turing award winning computer scientist
- William Yeager, inventor of multi-protocol internet router