Swarming and the future of oceanographySwarming - the cooperative group behavior of large numbers of similar vehicles - can be used for much more than light displays and sensor networks. When the instinct for swarm behavior is embodied on each vehicle in a group, it becomes a powerful management tool giving access to new modes ...
Where: OrindaCost: $5, $1 Student member and K - 12 teachers
If Robots Build the House of Today, How to Build a House Tomorrow?This discussion between architects, policy makers, designers and technologists dives into the issues raised by the “How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age” exhibition at swissnex San Francisco. The exhibition presents the DFAB HOUSE in Switzerland, one of the first houses to be built almost entirely ...
NASA is going back to the Moon, this time with commercial and international partners that will help us explore faster and explore more. After successful efforts to commercialize low-Earth orbit, there’s a renewed commitment to this new effort, which calls for the partnership to launch and operate a new space ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Skeptics in the Pub: MillbraeScience and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub West Bay, Fiddlers Green, Millbrae sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics.If ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the film-flam man, and if ye drink, drink with us, your friends. If ye shun the brewer’s art, at least help us lay waste to bangers & mash!Skeptics ...
Where: MillbraeCost: Free
Science on Tap: How Stable Is West Antarctica? One of the major concerns for the future is being able to predict sea level rise. The main contribution to error in sea level projections comes from uncertainty in ice loss from Antarctica. Antarctica is built up from two separate ice sheets, the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets. In this talk, ...
