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The 63 pages that link to Stanford University, each with the reason it gives.

• Yale UniversityCompared with: Its West Coast location and institutional history contrast with Yale’s older northeastern setting.

• Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCompared with: Its West Coast location and history of technology entrepreneurship provide a comparison with MIT’s regional ecosystem.

• Silicon ValleyRelated: Research, graduates, and entrepreneurial programs have sustained close ties between the university and local firms.

• California Institute of TechnologyCompared with: Stanford offers a nearby comparison in research prestige, while its scale and academic range differ.

• Amos TverskyRelated: Tversky spent much of his later academic career at Stanford.

• GoogleRelated: Google’s founders met while graduate students at Stanford.

• 1906 San Francisco earthquakeRelated: The earthquake damaged its campus, providing a prominent case outside San Francisco.

• Leland StanfordBroader topic: It was the enduring institution Stanford and his wife established in their son’s memory.

• University of California, Los AngelesCompared with: Stanford offers a private-university comparison and competes with UCLA for students and research prominence.

• Albert BanduraRelated: Bandura spent most of his academic career on Stanford’s psychology faculty.

• George PólyaRelated: Pólya spent the later part of his academic career teaching mathematics at Stanford.

• Herbert HooverRelated: Hoover was among its first students and graduated with a geology degree in 1895.

• Paul BergRelated: Berg joined Stanford’s faculty in 1959 and carried out much of his influential research there.

• Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterRelated: Stanford operates SLAC under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.

• Joseph GreenbergRelated: Greenberg joined Stanford in 1962 and developed his influential program in typology there.

• Larry PageRelated: Page and Brin met as graduate students there and developed their search research.

• Northwestern UniversityCompared with: Stanford provides a comparison with another prominent private research institution.

• Carnegie Mellon UniversityCompared with: Its scale and regional role contrast with Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh setting.

• Donald KnuthRelated: Knuth joined Stanford’s faculty in 1968 and carried out much of his research there.

• MITCompared with: Stanford provides a West Coast comparison, with strong ties to Silicon Valley and technology.

• Vint CerfRelated: Cerf developed and tested early internetworking protocols while working at Stanford.

• Douglas EngelbartRelated: Engelbart studied electrical engineering there before beginning his research career.

• Frederick TermanNarrower topic: Terman served as dean and provost, reshaping the university’s engineering and research priorities.

• Ken KeseyRelated: At Stanford, he developed his writing among fellow students and writers.

• San Francisco Bay AreaBroader topic: Its research and alumni networks are closely tied to Silicon Valley.

• Sergey BrinRelated: Brin met Page while studying computer science at Stanford.

• Stanford–Binet Intelligence ScalesRelated: Terman’s revision was developed and published at Stanford, giving the test its name.

• Arthur KornbergRelated: Kornberg moved to Stanford in 1959 and built a major research program in DNA synthesis.

• Felix BlochRelated: Bloch led Stanford’s physics department and carried out his later magnetic resonance research there.

• Lewis TermanRelated: Terman conducted his academic career there and developed the Stanford revision of the Binet scale.

• Philip ZimbardoRelated: Zimbardo taught at Stanford, where he conducted the prison experiment.

• Stanley CohenRelated: Cohen conducted the plasmid research that became one half of the collaboration at Stanford.

• Francis FukuyamaRelated: Fukuyama directs the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford.

• Robert HofstadterRelated: Hofstadter conducted his landmark electron-scattering research at Stanford.

• Steven ChuRelated: Chu held a physics professorship at Stanford before entering government.

• Barbara LiskovRelated: Liskov earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics there before entering computer science.

• George BeadleRelated: Beadle led Stanford’s biology division and later served as its president.

• Michael SpenceRelated: Spence taught economics at Stanford and served as dean of its business school.

• Rachel MaddowRelated: Maddow earned her undergraduate degree there before pursuing graduate study.

• Sun MicrosystemsRelated: Sun’s name and first workstation trace to the Stanford University Network project.

• David PackardRelated: Packard studied electrical engineering there and met Hewlett.

• Jensen HuangRelated: Huang completed a master’s degree in electrical engineering there.

• Paul RomerRelated: Romer held an academic appointment at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

• SnapchatRelated: The company’s founding grew out of connections made at Stanford.

• Bill HewlettRelated: Hewlett met Packard at Stanford, where Terman taught and encouraged their early entrepreneurial work.

• Brian KobilkaRelated: Kobilka built his independent research program at Stanford.

• Carolyn BertozziRelated: Bertozzi led a chemical biology research group at Stanford before joining the University of California, Berkeley.

• David ChaseRelated: Chase studied film at Stanford, developing the training that preceded his television career.

• James G. MarchRelated: March spent decades at Stanford, shaping research across its business and social-science communities.

• William E. MoernerRelated: Moerner has conducted much of his academic research at Stanford, including work leading to super-resolution microscopy.