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NYU Wants the Tech Campus to Transform Brooklyn, But Is It a Match for...
Notice the plethora of subway lines? Ahem. (via NYU) As we expected, with RFPs due tomorrow, this week has turned into something of a PR blitzkrieg to win a chance to build on an applied sciences mecca...
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Does Mayor Bloomberg Hold All the Power When It Comes to Deciding Who Will...
Throughout the drawn-out process to build an engineering mecca to rival Silicon Valley on city-owned land, the NYC Economic Development Corporation has maintained that there was no front-runner. The...
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Rumors & Acquisitions: Reactions to Stanford Dropping Out of the Race
Stanford totally dissed New York City today by dropping its bid to build a tech campus on Roosevelt Island. What happened to all the lovey-dovey intercoastal necking that was so irritating to local...
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Bloomberg Reported to Announce Cornell the Winner of the $100 M. Tech Campus Bid
Aerial rendering of Cornell's proposal Who knew a request for proposal to build a tech campus would offer such edge-of-your-seat drama? Late Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post,...
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Safety School? As Stanford Says ‘See Ya!’ Bloomberg Hops in Bed with Big Red
Gleaming the cubes. On Monday, the lobby of the Weill Cornell Medical College, which resides on a particularly gray stretch of the Upper East Side, was crawling with men and women in wooly blazers...
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Marissa Mayer on Misconceptions That Hold Back Women in Tech and Why She...
No photography allowed at 92Y :( For a lifelong perfectionist overachiever, 36-year-old Marissa Mayer (known in some circles as Google employee no. 20), is rather adept at projecting an aura of...
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New Yorker Reveals More Details About NYC’s Botched Tech Campus Deal With...
Stanford's proposal for Roosevelt Island In this week's issue of The New Yorker, the illustrious Ken Auletta, who recently profiled Sheryl Sandberg's attempts to "upend Silicon Valley's male-dominated...
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Forbes Anoints Stanford as a ‘Billionaire Machine’
High praise. Today is the online debut of Forbes' "Top Colleges" issue. Only they should have called it the "Top College" issue, because--though the rankings aren't online yet--that big splashy profile...
View ArticleNowThis News Goes Retro, Narrates the Election With Twitter ASCII Art
NowThis News, the recently launched video news site created by ex-HuffPo founders Eric Hippeau and Ken Lerer, opted for an old-fashioned approach to deliver election results on a new-fangled platform....
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Booting Up: Where Stanford Kids Learn to be Normals
Morning, sunshine! (Photo: flickr.com/photos/wordridden) How do Stanford students get the human education they need to lead startups? Many of them take CS198, a program that teaches computer science...
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Famous People like Soulja Boy, Brandy and Neil Patrick Harris Already Forming...
Not how you will look in Glass. (Photo: In.com) Though Google Glass makes even models look vaguely dorky, a host of celebs are lining up to try them out. Stanford computer science doctoral student...
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We Can’t Make Heads or Tails of This Bizarre Ad for Clinkle
????? While you spent the summer day-drinking, the wunderkind founder of mysterious payments startup "Clinkle" was hard at work. Three months on, it's no clearer what the startup, which was somehow...
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Study Finds Online Courses Only Really Serving 10 Percent of Users
Not all students are made alike, but at least in a physical classroom, you can actually observe them. (Photo via Mike Fernwood) Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a relatively young industry,...
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