Stanford University

thumb|The logo of Stanford thumb|The seal of Stanford thumb|An aerial view of the Stanford Quad and Oval. Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university located in the census-designated place of Stanford, California, near the city of Palo Alto. The campus occupies 8,180 acre ha off, among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is ranked among the top universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Quotes There is about as much need for a new university in California as for an asylum of decayed sea captains in Switzerland. New York Mail and Express editorial in response to the proposal to build Leland Stanford Junior University in 1880. Quoted in "Men Against Mountains", The Atlantic (May 1938) On October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would eventually catapult the world into the information age. Matt Novak Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-internets-birth-certificate-from-50-years-ago-1839436583 29 October 2019 Gizmodo But in the 1950s, many universities saw an advantage in building up all of the sciences and engineering with an eye toward obtaining federal grant money. No single institution did this better than Stanford University. And no one person was more attuned to using federal grants to build a university than its dean of engineering and eventual provost, Frederick Terman. Dr. Terman, trained as an electrical engineer, was an aggressive man with insight and boundless energy. When he began as dean, Stanford University was considered a good private regional school. When he retired as provost, it was arguably the best university for research in the nation. Stuart Rojstaczer Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age https://books.google.com/books?id=z3sdGcopBzQC&pg=PA75 2 September 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-535205-4 75 External links University