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Inside the Nerdball revolution
With a spreadsheet as his compass, Coach Kyle Smith is rebuilding Stanford basketball through quantifiable toughness—and the players are embracing it.
Story tags:
- Stanford Athletics
- Preparing Citizens
David, Goliath, and the future of AI
How Yejin Choi is challenging AI’s biggest assumptions—about common sense, about scale, and about who gets to build the future.
Story tags:
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- School of Engineering
Mind in the mirror
Surya Ganguli is helping pioneer a new science of intelligence—one that studies how brains perceive, how AI learns, and what each can reveal about the other.
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Engineering the overlooked
As a Stanford undergraduate, William Tarpeh learned to spot problems others ignore. Financial aid gave him a path forward—all the way to a MacArthur Fellowship.
Story tags:
- Accelerating Solutions
- School of Engineering