Private research university in Palo Alto, California — the academic institution most responsible for producing Silicon Valley technology companies (Google, Yahoo, HP, Sun, Cisco) — home to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and d.school.
Creates Silicon Valley's academic infrastructure — Stanford's culture of professor-student company formation (Hewlett and Packard, Page and Brin, Filo and Yang) set the template for university technology transfer that other institutions have struggled to replicate.
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