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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry: A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence

Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe. 

May 6, 2024
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning

Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?

May 7, 2024
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News Release

NASA Award to Stanford University for Major Astrophysics Project

Today NASA announced an award to Stanford University for development of a space-based gamma-ray telescope named GLAST.

February 28, 2000
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
News Release

Violent Acceleration and the Event Horizon

Using high-intensity lasers, scientists hope to simulate a black hole event horizon in a laboratory, something that has never been done before.

June 6, 2000
Unruh radiation diagram
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SLAC wins Department of Energy award for project management

The award acknowledged the on-time, on-budget completion of the $293 million B Factory Project.

October 17, 2000
View down the tunnel of the Asymmetric B Factory.
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President Clinton Names Enrico Fermi Award Winners: Stanford's Sidney Drell Honored

President Clinton today named Sidney Drell as a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of...

November 9, 2000
Dr Sidney Drell Fermi Award
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SLAC's B Factory Achieves Design Goal

Scientists at DOEs Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) were in the last three days of the scheduled operation of the B Factorys PEP II...

November 9, 2000
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Menlo Park Honors Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for Near-Zero Emissions

The City of Menlo Park has given the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) a 2000 Environmental Quality Award in recognition of SLAC's success in...

January 24, 2001
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Physicists Publish First Results From the B Factory at Stanford

The international BABAR Collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has just released initial results on the behavior of subatomic particles known as...

February 12, 2001
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BroadVision CEO and His Wife to Donate $15 million to Fund Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute

Pehong Chen, founder and CEO of BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN), and his wife, Adele, will donate $15 million to Stanford University to establish a new...

March 6, 2001
SLAC director Jonathan Dorfan; Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision; and President John Hennessy.
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National Academy of Sciences Elects Dr. Prescott as Member (PDF)

Charles Y. Prescott, physics professor and faculty chair at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Christopher Field, biology professor, by courtesy, and staff...

May 2, 2001
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Professor Gregory Loew Appointed Deputy Director of SLAC

Gregory Loew, professor of applied research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has been named deputy director of the center.

July 5, 2001
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