Our mission of discovery and learning is energized by a spirit of optimism and possibility that dates to our founding.| Stanford University
When railroad magnate and former California Gov. Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, lost their only child, Leland, Jr., to typhoid in 1884, they decided to build a university as the most fitting memorial, and deeded to it a large fortune that included the 8,180-acre Palo Alto stock farm that became the campus. […]| Stanford University
Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of Lua, will talk tomorrow at the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium about the design of Lua or "Small is Beautiful".| Lua: news