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Wi-Fi for Billions - LivestreamIt’s not every day that someone gives away $100,000, but that’s what Andrea Goldsmith did when she became the first woman to win the Marconi Prize, the top honor in information and communications research. The Stanford engineering professor’s work has enabled billions of people around the world to enjoy fast, ...
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Solr Learning to Rank: Non-Search as a Machine Learning Problem - LivestreamSearch relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query to return what users want. A search for 'iPhone XS' should rank documents highly when the product name matches. But a different query, 'smartphone with two cameras' ...
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Lights - Action: Controlling Bacteria with Light - LivestreamDuring these sessions, we will demonstrate and explore the ways in which active, living systems such as bacteria respond to light and can thus be controlled and tuned.Speakers: Arvind Gopinath and Joshua Tamayo, UC MercedRegister at weblink for Zoom information.Intended for high school students and teachers
Come be in your elements with Exploratorium host and scientific raconteur Ron Hipschman - follow tales of intrigue and invention, join in dynamic demonstrations, and uncover fascinating connections between individual elements and our collective human experience.In this new Everything Matters segment, get to know the colorful element cadmium. Once used ...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, is now en route toward Mars. The mission will pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that could be used by future Mars explorers.Designed to search for signs of ancient microbial life, the robotic ...
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Productivity Implications and testing challenges on Moving to Microservice - LivestreamMicroservices based architectures are increasingly popular as a way of managing the scalability of large software systems. There are implications for organizational structure, product architecture, development methodology, test strategy, and design and simulation tools. Intended for managers and executives considering the implications of adopting a microservices architecture for a major ...
In general relativity, the presence of matter can curve spacetime, and the path of a light ray will be deflected as a result. This process is called gravitational lensing, analogous to the deflection of light by (e.g. glass) lenses in optics.In rare and extreme cases, light can take different paths ...
Chabot Space & Science Center has very old roots in Oakland and the East Bay, and no fewer than three incarnations as a student and public observatory and science education center. Now celebrating the 20th anniversary at its present location on the skyline of the Oakland Hills, the institution as ...
