The silicon chip has been the mainstay of the electronics industry for the last 40 years and has revolutionized the way the world operates. Today a silicon chip the size of a fingernail contains over one billion transistors and has the computing power that only a decade ago would take ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Living with a Star - dangerouslyThe sun "talks" to the Earth. One channel, still poorly understood, involves the ionosphere. The ionosphere interacts magnetically with the solid Earth, reaching deep into the crust, generating forces that can trigger earthquakes. Before major earthquakes, the crust "talks" back to the ionosphere, causing perturbations.Speaker: Friedmann Freund, SETI
Ever wonder how plants live? Or how worms produce compost? Get hands-on with science to find out! Join Cal scientists for cool, food-related investigations.This program is jointly supported by Science@Cal, Community Resources for Science, and the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
Two talks: 'Cosmos: Big Data and Big Challenges' and 'Condos and Clouds'Cosmos: Big Data and Big ChallengesThe underlying plumbing for Bing includes a massively parallel storage and computation layer running over tens of thousands of servers in many data centers. Cosmos stores data triply-replicated for high availability in simple byte streams. The store layer of Cosmos holds hundreds of petabytes of ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
The Anatomy of Wearable ComputingWIMM Labs (www.wimm.com) is a Silicon Valley-based company that offers an innovative platform to enable a new class of personal devices that deliver information at a glance and a touch. The WIMM Platform, the company's platform for connected wearable devices, is licensable to brands in the mobile, sports, finance, consumer ...
Join us for this fascinating talk from Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley and one of the world's most highly cited astronomers. Observations of very distant exploding stars (supernovae) show that the expansion of the universe is now speeding up, rather than slowing down due to gravity as ...
Join award-winning Stanford Computer Science Professor Ron Fedkiw and Pixar Senior Scientist Michael Kass at Pixar Animation Studios in a discussion of animation versus simulation and how both are used to create award winning films. Miles Perkins of Industrial Light & Magic will moderate.
Where: EmeryvilleCost: Free
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BaySkeptics in the Pub, West BayFiddlers Green, MillbraeIf 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 in the Pub is a monthly ...
Being a kid ain't what it used to be. During the past generation, childhood has undergone a profound and, until recently, largely ignored transformation. American children today spend 90% less time outdoors than their parents did. Nearly 20% of our kids are obese, with health consequences that include rampant diabetes ...
