Anthony Mainero

Weekend Preview — May 17, 2012

by Anthony Mainero

Friday: Mixed Company’s Spring show, “The Hungover Games”, which you probably saw flyers for everywhere on campus, is Friday at 8PM at the Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom. Facebook link. Three major all-campus parties are being hosted Friday at 10PM. Durand ‘s got Durandom Hookup, Slav Dom is hosting its all-campus People’s Party, (get your Soviet swag on), [...]

Weekend Preview – May 12, 2012

by Anthony Mainero

At Stanford: This afternoon at 2PM, the Stanford Savoyards will be presenting “Ruddigore”, a Gilbert & Sullivan comic Victorian opera at Dinkelspiel Auditorium.  The show will also be playing Sunday at 2:30 PM. Casa Italiana will be showing off it’s new pizza oven tonight for an outdoor party complete with lots of food.  The event [...]

A Warning to My Fellow Residents of West Egg

by Anthony Mainero

Anthony Mainero explores the true distinction between Stanford and the Ivy mentality.

ASSU Executive Debate 2012 Highlights

by Anthony Mainero

Monday night, the Review filmed the 2012 ASSU Executive debate at the CoHo, featuring all three remaining slates: Zimbroff-Wagstaff, MacGregor-Dennis-Druthi, and Open Source.  Much of the debate was a back-and-forth sparring session between Zimbroff-Wagstaff and MacGregor-Dennis-Druthi.  Open Source, the Chaparral’s slate for this year, provided a few moments of witty commentary, and even rather blatant [...]

Debating the Future of Technology: Peter Thiel and George Gilder

by Anthony Mainero

Thursday night in the Hewlett Teaching Center, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), an organization dedicated to the promotion of primarily libertarian thought in higher education and journalism, hosted a debate between Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel and author George Gilder. Thiel is well known as the co-founder of PayPal, the first investor in Facebook [...]

Life After the Stanford Review

by Anthony Mainero

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Past editors reflect on their time spent with the Stanford Review.

Stanford AI Professor Leaves to Start Online Education Startup

by Anthony Mainero

Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the man who led the team that designed Stanley, Stanford’s famous self-driving car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, announced yesterday in Munich that he is planning to leave Stanford to work on his online education startup, Udacity.

E2.0 Still Moving Forward

by Anthony Mainero

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Now with a lower profile among the student body, E2.0 says that its goals have not changed.

Stanford Football Posts YouTube Video Series: “The Program”

by Anthony Mainero

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The Stanford Football program has begun a video series entitled “The Program.”

Innovation in Stanford CS

by Anthony Mainero

Faculty in the Computer Science department have been working on a number of programs to make Stanford’s computer science curriculum accessible worldwide.