The Challenges of Artificial IntelligenceSpeaker: Marvin Minsky, MIT, in conversation with Ken Taylor, StanfordMarvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function ...
Timothy Beatley, professor of sustainable communities at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, has researched sustainable urban design for two decades. In his recent book, Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning, Beatley illustrates groundbreaking practices in sustainable urban planning. His talk will highlight the best examples ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members
Meet the Mushrooms of Santa Cruz CountyEach general meeting begins with mushroom identification and cultivation delights, then features a guest speaker on a selected mycological topic.
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Dishing the Dirt on DecompositionFungi regulate critical processes that control the cycling of carbon (C) and nutrients through ecosystems. As a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Talbot studies the fine-scale chemical mechanisms that soil fungi use to drive these large-scale processes. One of the most important, but poorly understood processes that fungi ...
