STANFORD `YAHOOS' YOUNGEST GRADS TO ENDOW A CHAIR.Byline: Julia Angwin San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the What do you get when you mix two twentysomething Internet entrepreneurs and a venerable academic tradition? A professor with an exclamation point exclamation point: see punctuation. exclamation point - exclamation mark after his or her name! The founders of Yahoo!, an Internet start-up in Silicon Valley, have endowed a $2 million chair at their alma mater - Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; Simplified Chinese: , 28, and David Filo David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. , 30, are the youngest individuals to endow a chair in the school's recorded history Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1] It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. . More important, they are the first to endow a chair with an exclamation point. ``Originally it was suggested that we call it the David Filo and Jerry Yang chair, but we felt like we were probably too young to have our names on things like that,'' Yang said. Then they thought of calling it the Yahoo! Professor, Wang said, ``but we decided that some people might think it's sort of a joke.'' So they compromised on: Yahoo! Founders Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering. The title was approved Wednesday by Stanford's Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . ``We thought it was a reasonable solution,'' Wang said. ``We hope the guy or woman who ends up taking the chair is also sort of a yahoo.'' The professor filling the position will do advanced research on information technology and will be entitled to a business card and letterhead with the Yahoo! Founders designation. Stanford officials say they couldn't be more pleased. ``We were delighted to have the Yahoo! in the name,'' said Laura Breyfogle, spokeswoman for the engineering school. An endowed chair is an honorary title for a professor, whose salary and expenses are paid by the interest on the endowment. So what is a yahoo? Well, it's how Yang and Filo described themselves when they were computer science graduate students at the Stanford's engineering school. In their spare time, the two Ph.D. candidates started compiling a list of their favorite Web sites. One night they started searching the dictionary for a name for their list. They wanted an acronym that started with Yet Another, as in yet another list of cool Web sites. And ``yahoo'' jumped out at them from the dictionary. Wang said the word yahoo - which means someone who is rude and uncivilized - accurately described their pizza-eating, late-night programming lifestyle. So they decided their site would be called Yet Another Hierarchical Officious of·fi·cious adj. 1. Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others: an officious host; officious attention. 2. Informal; unofficial. 3. Oracle - or Yahoo! for short. |
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