Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford

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Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.

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. Blueprints of the building are available online.

Faculty members with offices in the building include:

Kurt Akeley, consulting Dan Boneh Stuart Card, consulting David Cheriton Bill Dally Ronald Fedkiw Edward Feigenbaum, emeritus Hector Garcia-Molina Leonidas J. Guibas Pat Hanrahan Mark Horowitz Donald Knuth, emeritus Daphne Koller Monica S. Lam Jean-Claude Latombe Marc Levoy

Edward J. McCluskey, emeritus Nick McKeown John C. Mitchell Andrew Ng Kunle Olukotun John Ousterhout Vaughan Pratt, emeritus Mendel Rosenblum Mehran Sahami Sebastian Thrun Luca Trevisan Jeffrey Ullman George Varghese, visiting Jennifer Widom, chair Gio Wiederhold, emeritus Terry Winograd

See also

• William Gates Building, Cambridge, England, home of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory since 2001
• Knowledge Systems Laboratory

Bibliography

• Joncas, Richard; David J. Neuman; Paul V. Turner (1999). Stanford University. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 146. 

External links

• Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford is at coordinates 37.430050°N 122.173242°W / 37.430050; -122.173242 (Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford)