Stanford University
In October 1891 Stanford University opened in California, in the area known as Palo Alto, in memory of the founder's son, Leland Stanford . The prediction of a newspaper of the time predicted "classrooms empty benches and marble," but during the second year of life forgot those bad predictions because it went from 15 to 49 schools. Frederick Law Olmsted , the landscape architect who created the famous Central Park in New York was commissioned to design the gardens of the University and today their lines continue to be met when the campus is expanded. In 1906 earthquake destroyed some of the buildings and there were several deaths. The powers were rebuilt and the church, (completely demolished). Gradually they were opened new professional schools (medicine, business, engineering, education ... When came World War I, the number of students fell by 70 percent. At that time a student of Standfor, Herbert Hoover worked to alleviate the effects of war and donated materials and money to create a collection of documents from the war. This collection later led to the creation of Hoover Institution and that student in 1928 became President of the United States. After the war the role of students was crucial to ensure the development of its programs and institutions of the University, and the institution was set Stanford Associates which raised funds to support the expansion and progression of the university . That tenacity paid off and in 1940 with the help of a university professor at Stanford, Frederick Terman , two students of the institution, David Packard and William Hewlett , created a small electronics company that would serve as a catalyst for the creation of other companies based innovation and research in new technologies and are all located in what is now known as Silicon Valley. In 1970, Vinton Cerf , she developed communications over a local network of computers connected by TCP / IP protocols. Internet was the embryo. Thanks to these advances Stanford is now a reference institution in the field of new technologies and their classrooms are out, for example, the creators of Google , Sergey Brin and Larry Page . * Source photo: http: //www.stanford .edu /