Dylan Arena (Class of 2001), Co-Founder and Chief Learning Scientist at one of our stops on the recent ed-tech field trip, Kidaptive, has had his company profiled in a recent article on TheDishDaily.com:

• "Kidaptive Educates Children and Empowers Parents" (March 6, 2013)

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Matthew X. Etchemendy (Class of 2006) will reportedly be following up his joint Stanford Law (J.D.) and Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees with a clerkship under Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court for the term that begins in October 2013. Congratulations to Max!

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Gentry Underwood (Class of 1999), CEO of Orchestra (previously the maker of a popular to-do app), has been in the news recently as his new app Mailbox launched with widespread anticipation and a long list of signed up users.

See also:

• Q&A With Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood on the ...

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Matthew Flannery (Class of 2000), Cofounder of Kiva.org, was featured on Episode 205H of the public television series Revolutionaries,  titled "Doing Well By Doing Good":

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• Matt Flannery ('00), Kiva Cofounder, Featured in Daily Article

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Dalton Caldwell (Class of 2003), previously the founder of imeem, has been getting attention for his latest creation: App.net. In a recent story at Le Temps/Worldcrunch, Benjamin Ferran writes: "To distinguish themselves from Facebook and Twitter, new social networks are trying to find a different economic model. A ...

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Luke Swartz and Steven Riley (both Class of 2002) are presenters this evening in San Francisco's Nerd Night, 8 pm at 155 Fell Street. Luke is presenting "Shibboleths, or How Not to Get Killed for Saying the Wrong Thing”, and Steve is presenting “Get Across and Get Down! The ...

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Marissa Mayer (Class of 1997), CEO of Yahoo!, has been named as one of Time Magazine's People Who Mattered in 2012 and was on the Short List for Time's Person of the Year.

See also:

• Marissa Mayer Discusses Her Sym Sys Education [Video]

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Peter Deng (Class of 2005), Director of Product Management at Facebook, has been named one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 for 2012, in the category of "Games and Apps". From Forbes.com:

"One of the key behind-the-scenes guys heading core Facebook applications such as Messages, Groups, Photos and ...

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Symbolic Systems Forum presents...

"Crowd-Powered Systems"
Michael Bernstein
Computer Science Department

Monday, January 14, 2013
12:15-1:05 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Greenberg Seminar Room (460-126)
map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/?id=01-460&lat=37.4285008259&lng=-122.170359989&zoom=17&srch=460

ABSTRACT:
Crowd-powered systems combine computation with ...

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Marissa Mayer (Class of 1997), President and CEO of Yahoo!, was honored on Oct. 24 as a recipient of the Springboard Winners Circle Awards in New Yorrk. Kay Koplovitz writes in the Huffington Post:

"Women in technology likewise have an experienced role model in honoree Marissa Mayer, President and CEO ...

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