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The '''Computer Science Department''' at [[Stanford University]] in [[Stanford, California|Stanford]], [[California]], is a leading school for [[computer science]]. It was founded in 1965 and has consistently been ranked as one of the top computer science programs in the world. Its ___location in [[Silicon Valley]] makes it unique among computer science programs.
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==History==
The [[Stanford University]] Computer Science Department was founded in 1965 by [[George Forsythe]].
==Academics==
The CS department grants B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.
==Gates Computer Science Building==
[[Image:StanfordGatesCS.jpg|thumb|Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.]]
The [[Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford|Gates Computer Science Building]], or "Gates Building" houses the [[computer science|Computer Science]] Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory. It also houses 550 faculty, staff and students. The building was named after [[Bill Gates]], who donated $6 million of its total cost of $38 million. It was constructed over two years and completed in 1996.
==People==
===Alumni===
*[[Brian Acton]], co-founder of [[WhatsApp]]
*[[Sergey Brin]], co-founder of [[Google]]
*[[Orkut Büyükkökten]], founder of Orkut
*[[Will Harvey]], entrepreneur
*[[Reed Hastings]], [[Netflix]] founder
*[[Jawed Karim]], co-founder of [[YouTube]]
*[[Joe Lonsdale]], founder of [[Addepar]] and [[Palantir Technologies]]
*[[Larry Page]], co-founder of [[Google]]
*[[Blake Ross]], co-creator of [[Mozilla Firefox]]
*[[Mike Schroepfer]], CTO of [[Facebook]]
*[[David E. Shaw]], hedge fund manager, [[D. E. Shaw & Co.]]
*[[Charles Simonyi]], inventor of Microsoft Word, former chief architect at [[Microsoft]]
*[[Kevin Systrom]], co-founder of [[Instagram]]
===Faculty===
* [[Vinton Cerf]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Douglas Engelbart]], [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]]
* [[Edward Feigenbaum]], [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of [[Dendral]]
* [[Robert Floyd]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Gene Golub]], former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for [[Singular Value Decomposition]] (SVD)
* [[Leonidas J. Guibas]], Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
* [[John L. Hennessy]], pioneer in [[RISC]], President of Stanford
* [[Sir Antony Hoare]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[John Hopcroft]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Alan Kay]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[John Koza]], pioneer in [[genetic programming]]
* [[Daphne Koller]], professor in CS, co-founder of [[Coursera]]
* [[Donald Knuth]], professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of [[TeX]], author of [[The Art of Computer Programming]], [[Turing award]] winner
* [[Barbara Liskov]], the first woman earning a ph.d in CS (from Stanford), [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Edward McCluskey]], professor in EE, IEEE [[John Von Neumann Prize]] winner
* [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]], responsible for the coining of the term [[Artificial Intelligence]], and inventor of the [[Lisp programming language]] and [[time sharing]], [[Turing award]] winner
* [[Robert Metcalfe]], former faculty, co-inventor of [[Ethernet]], inducted into [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]]
* [[Robin Milner]] former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Allen Newell]] [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Andrew Ng]], faculty in CS, winner of 2010 [[Computers and Thought Award]]
* [[John Ousterhout]], faculty in CS, winner of [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]]
* [[Amir Pnueli]] postdoc, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Ronald Rivest]] former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Raj Reddy]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Tim Roughgarden]], faculty in CS, winner of [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]]
* [[Arthur Samuel]], former faculty, a pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of [[artificial intelligence]] (AI).
* [[Dana Scott]] former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Robert Tarjan]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[Sebastian Thrun]] director of Stanford AI LAB, team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry [[Stanley (vehicle)|Stanley]] won 2005 [[DARPA]] grand challenge.
* [[Jeff Ullman]], professor in CS, IEEE [[John Von Neumann prize]] winner
* [[Niklaus Wirth]] former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist, inventor of the [[Pascal_(programming_language)|Pascal Programming Language]]
* [[Terry Winograd]], faculty in CS, winner of 2010 [[Computers and Thought Award]]
* [[Andrew Yao]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist
* [[William Yeager]], inventor of multi-protocol [[internet router]]
==See also==
* [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www-cs.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Computer Science]
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