Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, associate professor of medicine and health economist, talks about the nuts and bolts of the bill slated for a final congressional vote in the coming days. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford News: news.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

(October 24, 2008) Peter Pirolli, Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center, speaks about models and applications developed within the information foraging theory. These include recent models of Web surfing, exploratory search and interaction with information visualizations, as well as outlines of extension of the theory to social information foraging. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford [...]

May 16, 2008 lecture by Rob Miller for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). Rob Miller discusses some of the explorations into keyword programming in the web automation domain, and also in other domains such as Java development. One surprising result is that programming language syntax often has relatively little information content, and [...]

I was accepted to both MIT Engineering and Stanford Engineering. I honestly don’t know what to choose. I have till May 1st.
MIT is MIT. It’s the top university for engineering. I know that. But what worries me is the weather there. It’s really cold and gloomy. Also, MIT seems too intense academically. So many people [...]

Electromagnetic Waves – Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell’s Equations – Polarization – Malus’ Law View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu

Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world’s knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, [...]

August 9, 2007 presentation by Russ Altman for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach’s Summer Science Lecture Series. There are a number of causes for variation in drug response across the population, but differences in genetics are an important factor. Russ Altman, Professor & Chair of Bioengineering and Professor of Genetics and Medicine, discusses [...]

Are there any reasons not to use a whiteboard even wealthy universities like Yale or MIT.
Chalk dust is harmful, isn’t it?

X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes (Jeffrey McClintock) View the complete course at: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu

I am going to be a biology major most likely molecular cell biology and I was surprised that they were asking for course sign-ups already but I figured that I better find out what I need to take. I am going to be a fresham in the fall 2008 school year. I have taken AP [...]