William Gates Computer Science Building (Stanford)
Encyclopedia
The Gates Computer Science Building, or "Gates building" for short, is an L-shaped building that houses the Computer Science
Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University
, California
, USA. Construction on the building began in 1994 and was completed in 1996 at a cost of $
36 million. It was named after Microsoft
founder Bill Gates
, who donated $6 million for the building's construction.
The building is organized into an A wing (the western ell) and a B wing (the northern ell). It is secured by an Intellikey system. Blueprint
s of the building are available online.
Faculty members with offices in the building include:
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA. Construction on the building began in 1994 and was completed in 1996 at a cost of $
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
36 million. It was named after Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
founder Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
, who donated $6 million for the building's construction.
The building is organized into an A wing (the western ell) and a B wing (the northern ell). It is secured by an Intellikey system. Blueprint
Blueprint
A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan....
s of the building are available online.
Faculty members with offices in the building include:
- Kurt AkeleyKurt AkeleyKurt Akeley is a computer graphics engineer.-Biography:Kurt Akeley received a B.E.E. from the University of Delaware in 1980, and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University in 1982...
, consulting - Dan BonehDan BonehDan Boneh is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering atStanford University. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of applied cryptographyand computer security.-Education:...
- Stuart CardStuart CardStuart K. Card is an American researcher and Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction.- Biography :...
, consulting - David CheritonDavid CheritonDavid Ross Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor at Stanford University who has investments in technology companies...
- Bill Dally
- Ronald FedkiwRonald FedkiwRonald Paul "Ron" Fedkiw is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of computer science and a leading researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on topics relating to physically based simulation of natural phenomena and level sets. His techniques have been...
- Edward FeigenbaumEdward FeigenbaumEdward Albert Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "father of expert systems."...
, emeritus - Hector Garcia-MolinaHector Garcia-MolinaHéctor García-Molina is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and ElectricalEngineering at Stanford University. He has served at the U.S...
- Leonidas J. GuibasLeonidas J. GuibasLeonidas John Guibas is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories. Guibas was a student of Donald Knuth at Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976...
- Pat HanrahanPat HanrahanPat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University....
- Mark HorowitzMark HorowitzMark A. Horowitz is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978 and he completed his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Stanford University under the direction of Prof. Robert Dutton in...
- Donald KnuthDonald KnuthDonald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
, emeritus - Daphne KollerDaphne KollerDaphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences...
- Monica S. LamMonica S. LamMonica Sin-Ling Lam is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, and Founder and Chief Scientist of MokaFive.-Professional biography:...
- Jean-Claude LatombeJean-Claude LatombeJean-Claude Latombe is a French-American roboticist and the Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University...
- Marc LevoyMarc LevoyMarc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering....
- Edward J. McCluskeyEdward J. McCluskeyEdward J. McCluskey in Orange, New Jersey, is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in the field of Electrical Engineering.-Biography:...
, emeritus - Nick McKeownNick McKeownNicholas William McKeown, better known as Nick McKeown, is an English-American expert in computer networking. His career includes both education and starting companies in Silicon Valley.-Biography:Nick McKeown was born April 7, 1963 in Bedford, England....
- John C. MitchellJohn C. MitchellJohn Clifford Mitchell is professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. He has published in the area of programming language theory and computer security....
- Andrew NgAndrew NgAndrew Ng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work is primarily in machine learning and robotics. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and finished his postdoctoral research in the University of California, Berkeley, where he...
- Kunle OlukotunKunle OlukotunOyekunle Ayinde Olukotun is a pioneer of multi-core processors, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and director of the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at Stanford....
- John OusterhoutJohn OusterhoutJohn Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl...
- Vaughan Pratt, emeritus
- Mendel RosenblumMendel RosenblumMendel Rosenblum is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and one of the co-founders of VMware. Since 2008 he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark...
- Mehran SahamiMehran SahamiMehran Sahami is an Professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under Daphne Koller. Prior to teaching, Sahami was a Senior Research Scientist at Google as well as a...
- Sebastian ThrunSebastian ThrunSebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . He led the development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which is exhibited in the Smithsonian...
- Luca TrevisanLuca TrevisanLuca Trevisan is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. As of winter 2010, he is on leave and an acting professor of computer science at Stanford University....
- Jeffrey UllmanJeffrey UllmanJeffrey David Ullman is a renowned computer scientist. His textbooks on compilers , theory of computation , data structures, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields.-Early life & Career:Ullman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering...
- George VargheseGeorge VargheseGeorge Varghese is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego where he leads the Internet Algorithms Lab and also works with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology...
, visiting - Jennifer WidomJennifer WidomJennifer Widom is the chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where she has worked on nontraditional data management. She is the Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering...
, chair - Gio WiederholdGio WiederholdGio Wiederhold is an Italian-born computer scientist who spent most of his career at Stanford University. His research focuses on the design of large-scale database management systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques.-Biography:Gio Wiederhold was born June...
, emeritus - Terry WinogradTerry WinogradTerry Allen Winograd is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group...
See also
- William Gates Building, Cambridge, England, home of the University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryUniversity of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryThe Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students...
since 2001 - Knowledge Systems LaboratoryKnowledge Systems LaboratoryKnowledge Systems Laboratory is an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, located at the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford...