Stanford philosophy professor John Perry talks about his research
on
procrastination in a Wall Street Journal story about the
benefits of wasting time.
French professor Dan Edelstein argues that a few new liberal arts programs benefit students by challenging them "to be persuasive citizens and scholars."
Dr. Abraham Verghese, a novelist and Stanford University
professor, has
devoted much of his career to exploring the connections between
literature and medicine.
Elaine Buckholtz (MFA 2006), an instructor at the Center for
Computer
Research into Music and Acoustics, is part of the "Urban
Unseen"
show in San Francisco.
Research by associate professor of linguistics Dan Jurafsky and
associate
professor of linguistics and computer science Christopher Manning
reveals gender as a factor in performance of voice recognition
software.
