Apr 2013
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Attendees
326
Connectors
75
326 Stanford alumni, parents and guests connected in Shanghai, and 75 Connectors helped make it happen.
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Schedule - Saturday, March 12, 2016
12:45 p.m.
CHECK IN & MEET UP
1:15 p.m.
FIND A SEAT
1:30 p.m.
WELCOME
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Howard has led the Stanford Alumni Association and its staff since 2001. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology, with distinction, from Stanford in 1980 and his MBA from Harvard in 1985. Before his appointment as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and President, Stanford Alumni Association, he worked as both an entrepreneur and business manager in the publishing and commercial real estate development and management industries. An active alum and volunteer, as well as an avid Stanford athletics fan, he received the Stanford Associates Outstanding Achievement Award in 2000. In addition to his Alumni Association role, Howard is one of eight officers of the University and part of its senior management team, with particular responsibility for advising the University's president and the provost on alumni affairs.
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS AND Q&A
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President of Stanford University since 2000, John L. Hennessy is the inaugural holder of the Bing Presidential Professorship. He joined the faculty in 1977 and since then has served as chair of computer science, dean of the School of Engineering and provost. A pioneer in computer architecture, his technology revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. He has lectured and published widely and co-authored two textbooks on computer architecture design. Dr. Hennessy has received numerous honors, including the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering, a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2012 IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE's highest award.
2:25 p.m.
Micro Lectures
Are We Free to Decide?
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A leading investigator in sensory and cognitive neuroscience, Professor Newsome teaches graduate and medical courses in neuroscience, and co-teaches an undergraduate course on social and ethical issues in the neurosciences. The long-term goal of his lab’s research is to understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior. Professor Newsome’s honors include the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Spencer Award for highly original contributions to research in neurobiology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize and the Karl Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society.
Maintaining Privacy in the Internet of Things
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Professor Lam is co-principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 Expedition. Her current research interest is in privacy, open social platforms and internet of things. She is an author of the most popular textbook in compilers, commonly known as the Dragon Book. She is an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow and served on the advisory committee for Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
Freshman Year All Over Again: Life in China
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Josh Freedman is currently research manager at China Policy, a Beijing-based research firm, and specializes in examining social policy change in China. He previously served as policy analyst with the Economic Growth Program at New America, a think tank in Washington, DC, where he also wrote a column for Forbes online about higher education. At Stanford, Josh received the Ann C. Seminara Prize for Outstanding Senior in Public Policy and wrote, acted and produced comedy with the Robber Barons, Stanford's sketch comedy troupe. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications including Washington Monthly, The Atlantic and McSweeney's, and he is the only person in the Beijing stand-up comedy circuit who makes jokes about commodity prices and the 13th five-year plan.
Understanding American Foreign Policy Debates
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He has served the Obama administration as Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House, and most recently as the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. Professor McFaul has written and edited several books on international relations and foreign policy, and his op-ed writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. As a NBC News analyst, he provides expertise on foreign affairs and national security coverage.
(VIDEO) The Racetrack as Classroom
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Professor Gerdes' laboratory studies how cars move, how humans drive cars and how to design future cars that work cooperatively with the driver or drive themselves. When not teaching on campus, he can often be found at the racetrack with students, instrumenting historic race cars or trying out their latest prototypes for the future. Vehicles in the lab include X1, an entirely student-built test vehicle, and Shelley, an Audi TT-S capable of turning a competitive lap time around the track without a human driver. Professor Gerdes and his team have been recognized with a number of awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor award from SAE International and the Rudolf Kalman Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
3:30 p.m.
BREAK
4:00 p.m.
SEMINARS I
STANFORD DEAN DISCUSSION - ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Explaining the New Confrontation between Russia and the West
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In this seminar, Professor McFaul will draw on social science theory as well as his personal experiences in government to assess the causes of the current confrontation between Russia and the West. He will focus on long-term historical factors over the role of individual leaders.
He has served the Obama administration as Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House and, most recently, as the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. Professor McFaul has written and edited several books on international relations and foreign policy, and his op-ed writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. As an NBC News analyst, he provides expertise on foreign affairs and national security coverage.
NEUROSCIENCE: Brains, Biology and Free Will
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What really shapes our decisions: bottom-up, subconscious influences or top-down, conscious goals and desires? Professor Newsome discusses how research in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy is shedding new light on this age-old question, and why it matters.
A leading investigator in sensory and cognitive neuroscience, Professor Newsome teaches graduate and medical courses in neuroscience and co-teaches an undergraduate course on social and ethical issues in the neurosciences. The long-term goal of his lab’s research is to understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior. Professor Newsome’s honors include the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Spencer Award for highly original contributions to research in neurobiology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize and the Karl Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society.
PRIVACY & TECHNOLOGY: Disrupting Proprietary Social Networks
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Social networking companies today not only lay claim to our personal communication, they also lock out their competitors. Professor Lam will explore the emergence of an open social ecosystem that lets users own their data and companies compete openly.
Professor Lam is co-principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 Expedition. Her current research interest is in privacy, open social platforms and internet of things. She is an author of the most popular textbook in compilers, commonly known as the Dragon Book. She is an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow and served on the advisory committee for Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
5:00 p.m.
BREAK
5:30 p.m.
SEMINARS II
6:30 p.m.
Reception
Look Who Connected
| First Name | Last Name | Degree(s) | Parent Year(s) | City | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | Dwyer | Shanghai | China | |||
| Ruixiang | Yang | P '19 | Los Angeles | USA | ||
| Sophie | Wong | MS '98 | Shanghai | China | ||
| Catherine | Kwong | MS '96 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | ||
| Jorgen | Hoeven | Shanghai | China |
Special thanks to all the Stanford+Connects Shanghai Connectors without whose help this event would not be possible. See all local connectors.
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Learn
Dive deeper with these additional resources recommended by the professors who spoke at Stanford+Connects Shanghai.
Mike McFaul: Hear his commentary on Europe, Russia, China, and the Middle East
Monica Lam: Check out ThingPedia and help build the world's best virtual assistant
Josh Freedman: Check out his blog, which includes links to his publications
Tina Seelig: Find out about the 6 characteristics of truly creative people
Bill Newsome: Watch short neuroscience videos from Stanford professors at the World Economic Forum
John Hennessy: Learn more about the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program
