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Startups and Stanford University
Startups have become in less than 50 years a major component of innovation
and economic growth. Silicon Valley has been the place where the startup
phenomenon was the most obvious and Stanford University was a major component
of that success. Companies such as Google, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Cisco,
Hewlett Packard had very strong links with Stanford but even these vary famous
success stories cannot fully describe the richness and diversity of the
Stanford entrepreneurial activity. This report explores the dynamics of more
than 5000 companies founded by Stanford University alumni and staff, through
their value creation, their field of activities, their growth patterns and
more. The report also explores some features of the founders of these companies
such as their academic background or the number of years between their Stanford
experience and their company creation
Phrase-based Image Captioning
Generating a novel textual description of an image is an interesting problem
that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper,
we present a simple model that is able to generate descriptive sentences given
a sample image. This model has a strong focus on the syntax of the
descriptions. We train a purely bilinear model that learns a metric between an
image representation (generated from a previously trained Convolutional Neural
Network) and phrases that are used to described them. The system is then able
to infer phrases from a given image sample. Based on caption syntax statistics,
we propose a simple language model that can produce relevant descriptions for a
given test image using the phrases inferred. Our approach, which is
considerably simpler than state-of-the-art models, achieves comparable results
in two popular datasets for the task: Flickr30k and the recently proposed
Microsoft COCO
280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification
We propose a simple, yet effective, approach towards inducing multilingual
taxonomies from Wikipedia. Given an English taxonomy, our approach leverages
the interlanguage links of Wikipedia followed by character-level classifiers to
induce high-precision, high-coverage taxonomies in other languages. Through
experiments, we demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the
state-of-the-art, heuristics-heavy approaches for six languages. As a
consequence of our work, we release presumably the largest and the most
accurate multilingual taxonomic resource spanning over 280 languages
Equity in Startups
Startups have become in less than 50 years a major component of innovation
and economic growth. An important feature of the startup phenomenon has been
the wealth created through equity in startups to all stakeholders. These
include the startup founders, the investors, and also the employees through the
stock-option mechanism and universities through licenses of intellectual
property. In the employee group, the allocation to important managers like the
chief executive, vice-presidents and other officers, and independent board
members is also analyzed. This report analyzes how equity was allocated in more
than 400 startups, most of which had filed for an initial public offering. The
author has the ambition of informing a general audience about best practice in
equity split, in particular in Silicon Valley, the central place for startup
innovation
Writing William Burroughs, performing the archive
Between 1958 and 1972, author William S. Burroughs undertook a series of radical experiments with alternative compositional modes based on the aleatory form of the Cut-up. Burroughs sold the entirety of his work from the period, assembled into an archive, to a collector in 1972. This study uses performative writing to document a year of archival research in Burroughs\u27 collection, currently housed by The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library. Melding Bakhtin\u27s theories of the chronotope and the grotesque body with creative writing and experimental modes of scholarly production as praxis, I theorize archival research as a uniquely embodied practice. By exploring themes of history, biography, documentation, and discovery, this project identifies Burroughs\u27 use of the Cut-up as a mode of aesthetic collaboration and offers it as a pedagogical model for future critical/creative scholarship
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