Artist Robert Henke, center, in his class 'Music 223M: Sound, Structure, and Machines.' Photo: L.A. Cicero
Stanford visiting artist Robert Henke to perform a 'musical machine'
Thomas Sumner
Robert Henke, Stanford's 2013 Mohr Visiting Artist, will perform a computer-driven musical performance Thursday and Friday at the Bing Concert Hall Studio. The piece comprises sounds Henke recorded at and around Stanford.
Visitors explore The Year of the Bay virtual history map at the California Historical Society exhibition 'Curating the Bay.'
Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
Corrie Goldman
In a process known as crowdsourcing, researchers at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis are incorporating the knowledge and resources of the public into three digital humanities research projects.
Na Young Kim at optical bench / L.A. Cicero
Stanford physicists develop revolutionary low-power polariton laser
Thomas Sumner
Stanford physicists have created a new method of producing coherent matter beams. The new low-power laser system could one day be used in everything from consumer goods to quantum computers.
Vikram Seth portrait and illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate returns to Stanford May 30
Cynthia Haven
Stanford celebrates a remarkable collaboration: Vikram Seth's sonnets become sound in Conrad Cummings' opera, which has been called one of the best of the new century. Seth's novel-in-verse was born at Stanford in the 1980s.