Recent years have seen ever increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to enhance the understanding of data coming from a variety of disciplines, including the natural sciences. Machines are now able to predict what we will buy, who we associate with, and decisively recognize our face. This power can ...
Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale technology challenges. Each one-hour seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Pacific time, and is hosted live on the UC Berkeley campus.
Environmental justice advocacy and research has drawn critical attention to how unequal physical and social environments have lead to health disparities. Less attention has been brought to bear on why the symbolic, social, and cultural meanings of unequal environments make a difference for health. Drawing on concepts from medical anthropology, ...
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Beyond the wilting point: Californian oak woodland responses to droughtCalifornia is likely to experience increased frequency of drought events as a consequence of global climate change. A tremendous challenge for plant ecologists is to understand how plant communities, such as the ecologically and culturally important Californian oak woodlands, are likely to respond to drought. Part of the solution to ...
7:00-7:25: Gary Boodhoo(Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine"Using stagecraft, creative coding, and game design to make pictures of Minds...Read more7:25-7:50: Rosanna Guadagno(University of Texas at Dallas) on "Men, Women, and Technology: Insights from Social Psychology"Abstract forthcoming...Read more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone ...
