Dan Wells has wandered the Seashore with a camera throughout this past summer. He will share his images and experiences. Visit his blog This Tardiest Explorer to preview some of his photographs.
Where: Point Reyes StationCost: Free
A graphics performance wishlist: What we would like hardware to be good atAlgorithms in computer graphics and numerical simulation often possess high intrinsic parallelism, and should be well suited to hardware acceleration on GPUs or similar devices. To explore how well current hardware achieves this goal, I will discuss several representative problems taken from these two fields. For each one, I'll present ...
Alan M. Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. In honor of this pioneer of our digital age, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing are presenting a lecture by Andrew Hodges, the author of the acclaimed biography Alan Turing: ...
Why do the Jetsons remain the high bar of futurist thinking when it comes to the places we live in? Panelists Tom Chi, experience lead at Google X; architect Michelle Kaufmann; Ronald Rael, architect, author and assistant professor at UC Berkeley; and moderator Allison Arieff, contributing columnist to The New ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Find out what ideas are percolating in the mind of William Gibson, one our greatest contemporary science fiction writers. Author of the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, Gibson described the Internet before it existed and coined the term "cyberspace." His first collection of nonfiction writings, Distrust That Particular Flavor, offers provocative ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $20 Members, $15 Students
