Mehran

Mehran [meh·ran] n. Mehran Sahami, Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science, who was practically deified for his CS106A teaching style and as such became widely known by only his first name, as a latter-day prophet.

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See: http://static.stanford.edu/2014/09/23/from-austen-to-arraylists-my-experience-taking-a-computer-science-class