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Dr. Preston Taylor Stone
Academic Prog Prof 1, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Associate Director of Native American Studies, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Native American Studies
Lecturer in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity -
David G Stork
Adjunct Professor, Symbolic Systems Program
BioDavid G. Stork teaches and performs research in several disciplines:
• Rigorous computer image analysis of fine art paintings and drawings
• Computational sensing and imaging with metasurface optical elements
• Applications of computer algebra
He is a graduate in Physics from MIT and the University of Maryland, and studied Art History at Wellesley College. He was Chief Scientist of the American arm of the $15B international Ricoh Company and Rambus Fellow at Rambus, Inc. He has held faculty positions in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computation & Mathematical Engineering, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Art and Art History variously at Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges, Clark, Boston, and Stanford Universities, and the Technical University of Vienna. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IS&T, IAPR, IARIA, AAIA, IAII, and a Senior Life Member of ACM and was a 2023 Leonardo@Djerassi Fellow. He holds 64 US patents, and has published over 220 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and nine books/proceedings volumes, including "Pattern classification" (2nd ed.), "Seeing the light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision, and holography," "HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality," and "Pixels & paintings: Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship." -
Myra Strober
Professor of Education, Emerita
BioMyra Strober is a labor economist and Professor Emerita at the School of Education at Stanford University. She is also Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (by courtesy). Myra’s research and consulting focus on gender issues at the workplace, work and family, and multidisciplinarity in higher education. She is the author of numerous articles on occupational segregation, women in the professions and management, the economics of childcare, feminist economics and the teaching of economics. Myra’s most recent book is a memoir, Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me About Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others) 2016). She is also co-author, with Agnes Chan, of The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan (1999).
Myra is currently teaching a course on work and family at the Graduate School of Business.
Myra was the founding director of the Stanford Center for Research on Women (now the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research). She was also the first chair of the National Council for Research on Women, a consortium of about 65 U.S. centers for research on women. Now the Council has more than 100 member centers. Myra was President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and Vice President of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum). She was an associate editor of Feminist Economics and a member of the Board of Trustees of Mills College.
Myra has consulted with several corporations on improved utilization of women in management and on work-family issues. She has also been an expert witness in cases involving the valuation of work in the home, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment.
At the School of Education, Myra was Director of the Joint Degree Program, a master’s program in which students receive both an MA in education and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business. She also served as the Chair of the Program in Administration and Policy Analysis, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Acting Dean. Myra was on leave from Stanford for two years as the Program Officer in Higher Education at Atlantic Philanthropic Services (now Atlantic Philanthropies).
Myra holds a BS degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, an MA in economics from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.