San José State University

San José State University, commonly shortened to San Jose State and SJSU, is the oldest university in what became the California State University system. The urban campus has an enrollment of about 30,000 students, and claims to have more graduates working in Silicon Valley than any other college or university.

Faculty and research

San Jose State has about 1,600 faculty members, 87 percent of which hold doctorate degrees.

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Research collections located at SJSU include the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and the Martha H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Research.

Related Topics:
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies - Martha H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Research

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SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, the Cisco Networking Laboratory, and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Related Topics:
NASA Ames Research Center - Moffett Field - Cisco Networking

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It is also home to various institutes, such as the Mineta Transportation Institute. Since 2001, the university has operated the Survey and Policy Research Institute (SPRI), which conducts the quarterly, high-profile Silicon Valley Consumer Confidence Survey and other research projects.

Related Topics:
Mineta Transportation Institute - Survey and Policy Research Institute (SPRI) - Silicon Valley Consumer Confidence Survey

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Noted faculty members

• Elbert Botts -- chemist, inventor of the epoxy used to secure Botts dots.
• Mark Fruin -- expert on Japanese business
• Alejandro L. Garcia http://www.algarcia.org -- physicist, author of Numerical Methods for Physics
• Larry Gerston -- political commentator, expert on California politics and co-author of Recall: California's Political Earthquake
• Daniel Goldston -- mathematician, develops methods for proving that there are arbitrarily large primes that are unusually close together
• Kevin Jordan -- psychologist, works closely with NASA in developing the Human Factors Research and Technology Program
• Tom Layton -- archaeologist, documented origin of the shipwreck "Frolic" off the Mendocino coast, for which he has received national media attention
• Rudy Rucker -- computer science professor and science fiction author
• Randall Stross - author of eBoys, Microsoft Secrets and Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
• Yoshihiro Uchida -- head coach, SJSU Judo Team, 1964 U.S. Olympic Judo Team (also an alumnus -- BS Biology, 1947)
• Brent Walters http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/01.31.01/cover-0105.html-- Expert on early church history; director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies and curator of the Ante-Nicene Archive (the largest private library in the country regarding the first 3 centuries of the Common Era). He is also an almnus from SJSU's Philosophy department.
• Donald West -- chemist, co-author of Analytical chemistry, an introduction, the standard first year textbook in the field