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Seven Stanford PhD students will tell a tech panel about their humanities doctoral dissertations and why their abilities are valuable in Silicon Valley. The PhD students, from departments ranging from Italian and English to linguistics, will have three minutes each to describe their dissertations to an audience including a panel of a half-dozen leaders from Silicon Valley and Stanford. They include the vice president of IBM research at Almaden, the senior director of global customer relations at LinkedIn and the chair of Stanford’s Department of Classics. The U.S. technology correspondent for The Economist weekly newspaper will moderate.

The BiblioTech Program at Stanford aims to change the mindset of both academics and non-academics to recognize that the training received in a humanities doctoral program does in fact prepare students for careers in the business sector.

Through a combination of public programming, internships and outreach, BiblioTech seeks to facilitate a more symbiotic relationship between humanities doctoral students and Silicon Valley companies.

Launched earlier this year, the BiblioTech internship program seeks to place students in local companies and organizations to prove the talents of PhDs.

Upload: 05.18.12