Stanford University

Stanford Offers iPhone App Development Course Free on iTunes

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 3, 2009 - 11:02am.

San Francisco - Stanford University has begun offering its course on iPhone application development for free through Apple's iTunes Store, Wired.com reported. Lecture videos, slides, and a syllabus for the ten-week course will be available for download from Apple's iTunes U educational channel.

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Report: Youth Prefer Tinny Sizzle of MP3s to Uncompressed Music

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2009 - 1:44pm.

London - A music professor at Stanford University has found over the course of an eight-year survey of his students that they have come to prefer the tinny sizzle sound of MP3s over the uncompressed sound from a vinyl record and other formats, the Times Online reported. "I found not only that MP3s were not thought of as low quality, but over time there was a rise in preference for MP3s," Berger told Times Online. The effect seems to be the opposite with older generations, who prefer the "warmth" and crackle of vinyl recordings. "Some people prefer that needle noise -- the noise of little dust particles that create noise in the grooves. I think there's a sense of warmth and comfort in that."

Stanford Sets 'Net Reconnect Fees for Student File-Swappers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 17, 2007 - 1:40pm.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Stanford University has established monetary fines that students will have to pay to have their network access reconnected, should they receive copyright infringement complaints for file-swapping on the campus network, according to a post on the Recording Industry vs. The People blog.

Over 42,000 PS3 Owners Join Stanford Medical Research Project

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 26, 2007 - 11:45am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - More than 42,000 PlayStation 3 owners have signed up so far for Folding@Home, a distributed computing project from Stanford University that will use the consoles' Cell processors to crunch research data on diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and cancer.