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Stanford University, SLAC, NIIT and the Digital Divide
Prepared by Les Cottrell, SLAC
for the NIIT , March 18, 2005
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Stanford University• Location
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Some facts• Founded in 1890’s by Governor Leland
Stanford & wife Jane – in memory of son Leland Stanford Jr.– Apocryphal story of foundation
• Movies invented at Stanford
• 1600 freshman entrants/year (12% acceptance), 7:1 student:faculty, students from 53 countries
• 169K living Stanford alumni
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Some alumni• Sports: Tiger Woods, John McEnroe
• Sally Ride Astronaut
• Vint Cerf “father of Internet”
• Industry:– Hewlett & Packard, Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft,
Scott McNealy Sun …
• Ex-presidents: Ehud Barak Israel, Alejandro Toledo Peru
• US Politics: Condoleeza Rice, George Schultz, President Hoover
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Some Startups• Founded Silicon Valley (turned orchards into
companies): – Start by providing land and encouragement
(investment) for companies started by Stanford alumni, such as HP & Varian
– More recently: Sun (Stanford University Network), Cisco, Yahoo, Google
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Excellence• 17 Nobel prizewinners• Stanford Hospital• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) – my
home:– National Lab operated by Stanford University funded by US
Department of Energy– Roughly 1400 staff, + contractors & outside users => 3000,
~ 2000 on site at a given time– Fundamental research in:
• Experimental particle physics• Theoretical physics• Accelerator research• Synchrotron Light research
– Has faculty to pursue above research and awards degrees, 3 Nobel prizewinners
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Work with NIIT• Co-supervision of students, build research
capacity, publish etc., for example:– Quantify the Digital Divide:
• Develop a measurement infrastructure to provide information on the extent of the Digital Divide:
– Within Pakistan, between Pak & other regions
• Improve understanding, provide planning information, expectations, identify needs
• Provide and deploy tools in Pakistan
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World ViewS.E. Europe, Russia: catching upLatin Am., Mid East, China: keeping upIndia, Africa: falling behind
C. Asia, Russia, S.E. Europe, L. America, M. East, China: 4-5 yrs behind
India, Africa: 7 yrs behind
Important for policy makers
Many institutes in developing world have less performance than a household in N. America or Europe
Qua
lity
in K
Byt
es/s
Internet performance from US to Europe & India Sub-continent
Factor 10 improvement in 6 years
Europe India
7 years behind Keeping up
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Compare with TAI• UN Technology Achievement Index (TAI)
Note how bad Africa is