May/June 2006

Features

COVER STORY

Soul Support

How does religious faith inform the lives of individual students, and what is its role in campus discourse? Efforts by the Office for Religious Life and a growing interfaith community are giving new meaning to the notion of spirited exchange.

The World According to Azim Premji

When he left Stanford 40 years ago, Azim Premji was returning home to run his father’s modest cooking oil business. Now Wipro is a software giant that is helping redefine India—and the world economy.

Love at First Byte

Smitten with his first look at IBM’s blinking box almost 50 years ago, Donald Knuth has devoted his career to elevating the art of programming. Can the man who helped shape computer science finish what he started?

The Lolita Question

Vladimir Nabokov came to Stanford in 1941 to teach and write, befriended by a suave and worldly professor who some suggest played a part in the classic Lolita.

Columns

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The God Conversation

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

What Art Can Teach Us

Departments

1,000 WORDS

Mobile Home

ASKED AND ANSWERED

Prove It

But does it work?

STUDENT VOICE

Unlikely Aphrodite

Singled out

EXAMINED LIFE

A Surgeon with Heart

Bighearted

Red All Over

Farm Report

Showcase

No Ordinary King

The real David

Faith in History

A modern pilgrimage

Weighty Cases

Brainstorming

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: DON COOPER, '55

Goodbye to Wild Oats 'n Honey Audio

SNAPSHOT: BRIAN COLEMAN, '74

Restoration Man

SPOTLIGHT: JAY VAVRA, '87

Making a Project of San Diego Bay

SPOTLIGHT: VIOLETA BARROSO, '00

To Ceviche with Love

Farewells

REMEMBERING ANNAMARIA DE NICOLAIS NAPOLITANO, 1937-2006

The Italian Connection

REMEMBERING ROBERT M. LEVISON, '48, 1928-2006

Campus Protector

REMEMBERING OTIS CHANDLER, '50, 1927-2006

Publisher Who Couldn't Get Enough Competition