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I found this cool pillar in the heart of the Engineering Quad at Stanford, and it warmed mine. =)
Close-ups below.
14 responses to “SEVF — Stanford Engineering Venture Fund”
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and I had no idea they were doing this. I was with a different group at the time, the School of Engineering Advisory Council and they probably thought it was odd that I took some photos up front between the talks. (Ah, perhaps they added it for this celebratory event a few months ago).
One interesting tidbit from that meeting: every year, a new class of Stanford sophomores chose their major after having some time to explore what the university has to offer across the humanities and sciences and engineering. For decades, there was an 80/20 split with about 20% of students choosing engineering. Over the past four years, the number has angled straight up to 33% engineering for the current period. The growth has been driven primarily by Computer Science and secondarily by "Engineering" (a catch-all for individually-designed or interdisciplinary majors with the d,school (product design) or bio-x (funky stuff))
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At first I was kind of confused by the sentence structure as to whether it warmed your heart or warmed your pillar.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/24270806@N06] I really had to parse it carefully and give Steve the benefit of the doubt.
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Ashlee just released an interesting BW article on Stanford, with the subtitle "What’s wrong with a school’s having fostered so many revolutionary technologies? And what’s wrong with the Ivy League—which hasn’t?"
Quoted within, Redfin’s Kelman is a keen observer:
"You can’t run the world’s most entrepreneurial university, in the world’s most entrepreneurial place, without being entrepreneurial yourself. The people who want Stanford to be like the Vatican, standing apart from society in its own walled city-state, forget that computer science has never been a purely academic or religious undertaking. It’s a creative, practical field that begins to die the moment it loses contact with real-world problems."
The regional exception of MIT is also interesting, as we see many great startups spawning from there…. I don’t know much about the East Coast having never lived there, but I read in wikipedia: "Unlike Ivy League schools, MIT catered more to middle-class families, and depended more on tuition than on endowments or grants."
I happened to be a Research Assistant working for Hennessy (highlighted in the article) back in our EE days, and my classmate Jerry Yang, happens to be sitting across from me as I type this. Strange
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MIT is NOT Ivy League…..
which is why disruptive tech and startups are even possible thereyes, i do not expect anything significant out of Harvard at all, having spent 7 years on it’s faculty…… a corrupt cold place
folks there spend their time plotting how to take over startups that prove successfuldo convey my greetings to jerry.
anyone who likes Shammi Kapoor that much is a friend of mine 🙂http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-cinemaplus/t...
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