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...Palo Alto of the 1970s was a sleepier, slower place than it is today, according to Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. Todd III, who spent 16 years as a Stanford professor. But Stanford was exciting and entrepreneurial. The university was a frontier where students and professors got to be technology cowboys, building up the industry by creating companies like Yahoo!--the concoction of two Stanford students, and one of today's most profitable Internet companies...
Some of Yale's highest administrators even paid a visit to the lush Palo Alto, Calif. campus this fall. In October, the Yale Corporation took its annual retreat to the Stanford campus, where they spent time talking to Casper. Those familiar with the field of university governance acknowledge that the trip was unusual...
...field trip by a whole board to another university is certainly unusual," Harvard Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson says. "But I can understand why the Yale Corporation might want to take a trip to Palo Alto...
...Internet's most successful and best-known incubators tend to be American. CMGI Inc. of Andover, Mass., Guy Kawasaki's Garage.com in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bill Gross's Idealab.com in Pasadena, Calif., have fostered more than 150 Net start-ups in all, hitting pay dirt when their young charges go public. CMGI, which has partnered in Asia with Hong Kong businessman Richard Li's Pacific Century group, has been called the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet. CMGI currently boasts a market capitalization of about $26 billion...
While Scarry was working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Palo Alto, she happened to open a folder of notes containing an article that she had filed away in 1989. As she read about electromagnetic interference downing military aircraft, she wondered if civilian aircraft might also be at risk...