Stanford is a hot house for the technology industry, producing a constant stream of graduates who have gone on to set up and run the great and good of Silicon Valley. But while such a close working relationship has seen many successes, the sheer quantities of money involved make the setup increasingly fraught.
Yes, universities are snapping up .XXX Domains left and right. But no, they’re not aspiring to be future AVN award winners. Instead, schools like Missouri and Washington University are buying up domains like missouri.xxx and washu.xxx to protect their names.
Every album that’s been nominated for a Best Album Grammy this year was engineered by an FSU alum. Not Florida State; Full Sail University. The Winter Park, Florida college has cranked out a full 74 graduates who’ve worked on Grammy-nominated albums this year. So now you know who to blame for pretty much everything on the radio! [Time]
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All BYU student Nicholas Homer wanted was to enjoy life’s simple pleasures: a warm day, a cold beer, a motorised couch to amble around campus in. But some things are just too beautiful for this world.
The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School is where all kinds of ridiculously creative techno-wizardry happens so it’s pretty exciting they’re seriously opening up the program with a Summer Camp for grown ups. Do check it out. [ITP]
Just in case internet iPhone celebrity Jason Chen needed another reason to feel smug: his alma mater, Berkeley, has the highest internet speeds of any city on Earth.
