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US Patent Office Invalidates Key Apple Patent

by Danny O'Neel

In an unexpected twist to the ongoing legal battle between Apple and its Korean rival Samsung, the US Patent and Trademark Office yesterday declared Apple’s ‘381 patent for “rubber banding” or “bounce-back scroll” invalid. This decision flies in the face of the now-infamous August jury decision that ‘381 is not only a valid patent, but [...]

Online Education: In Hope of Degree Realignment

by Kyle Huwa

Through specialization, the free online education movement might provide a solution to the problem of degree inflation.

Resonance Captures Local Music Preference

by Kyle Huwa

A team of Stanford students have developed a project that they hope will allow users to explore the world of music with some help from their neighbors.

What People are Saying About Facebook

by Anjney Midha

It’s always amusing to see how the blogosphere and newseratti start lighting up with the most diverse range of concerns when a Valley company decides to go public. When that company is also the world’s largest social network with three times the number of users there are people in the US, things can get interesting. [...]

EdX: Flipping Classrooms the Right Way

by Anjney Midha

As an undergraduate on the Farm, it’s not often that I frown at a post in the media that hails Stanford as, among other things, a bastion of rigorous education. But Gregory Ferenstein’s recent Techcrunch piece titled “Move Over Harvard and MIT, Stanford has the ‘real revolution in education’ was a disappointing read, not in [...]

Google’s Summer of Code Program Now Accepting Applications

by Anjney Midha

Google is continuing with its much celebrated Summer of Code program this year that offers students from around the world a stipend over the Summer to work on coding projects. The program provides students with a pre-screened range of open source software projects to choose from, with 180 participating partner organizations for the summer of [...]

SOPA and PIPA Shelved. For Now.

by Anjney Midha

With Wikipedia and Reddit down, Google, Twitter and Mozillas’ logos blacked out and Hacktivist group Anonymous’ assaults on the Department of Justice, Finance, CBS and Universal Studios websites on the 18th of January, the world finally took notice of SOPA and PIPA. More importantly, so did the Senate. Both bills have been postponed for debate, [...]

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.

Wikipedia Shakes A Fist at SOPA and PIPA

by Anjney Midha

On January 18th, 2012 Wikipedia will stage its first ever political protest by blacking out in response to the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts. In an open letter published earlier today,Wikimedia Foundation Director Sue Gardner announced the knowledge giant’s decision to take a step away from it’s strictly neutral political stance to actively [...]

Senate Gearing Up For PIPA Debate

by Anjney Midha

The Senate is scheduled to begin debate on the controversial Protect IP Act on January 24th. The bill is the sister legislation of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), PIPA’s counterpart in the House of Representatives, both acts which have the potential to sledgehammer Internet based companies, ranging from giants like Google to student favorite [...]

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