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David and Jerry. Larry and Sergey. It's like a Jeopardy! category: Guys Who Created Fortune 500 Tech Companies While at Stanford University...
Best friends from boyhood, now sophomores at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, along with a group of five other friends, have built a free application for the iPhone that has the academic world buzzing. So far, their program, "iStanford," which launched Oct. 1, is pretty straightforward: users can access a campus map and course catalog, e-mail professors and get news and information about sports teams. Nothing wildly innovative about that. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...also allows students to add and drop courses, see the real-time whereabouts of the on-campus shuttle bus, review their grades and course history and perform a variety of other administrative tasks that are normally accessible only over secure campus networks. That's because, in an unusual move, Stanford's IT folks allowed the developers to connect to core computer systems at Stanford...
...they're integrating [the iPhone app] with our central system," said Tom Black, Stanford's registrar, who noted that the team was held to the same level of scrutiny as an outside vendor. "Usually student apps aren't allowed to go anywhere near that. We're breaking some ground here...
...PeopleSoft, which in turn allow students to add and drop courses, get their grades and handle the student and teacher directories. TerriblyClever is already integrating its iPhone application with those major systems - which appeals to campuses, since the iPhone is such a cheap and ubiquitous tool for students. At Stanford, 2,500 of the school's 8,000 students have an iPhone; another 1,500 have the iPod Touch, which runs the same apps...