How and Why We Control Invasives in the Park - Talk and Field Workshop!Join Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist, Tennessee Valley) for this informative and interesting class on something we should all be aware of: the threats posed to the parks by invasive plants. Learn results of research within the park showing negative effects to habitat value when non-local, invasive plants are introduced, ...
Where: RichmondCost: Free for presentation, $10 for refreshements
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The Trouble with BiasCity Arts & Lectures Conversations on Science SeriesKate Crawford is a leading researcher, academic and author who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is a Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research ...
Where: San FranciscoCost:
Fingerprinting the Climate SystemFingerprint research seeks to improve understanding of the nature and causes of climate change. The basic strategy is to search for model-predicted patterns of climate change (“fingerprintsâ€) in observed climate records. Such studies exploit the fact that different factors affecting climate have different characteristic signatures. These unique attributes are clearer ...
Where: LivermoreCost: $32 - $40 Adults, $12 Students
Wonderfest: How Machine Learning Changes Software DesignTraditionally, software is built by programmers who consider the possible situations and write rules to deal with them. But recently, many software applications have been created by machine learning: the programmer is replaced by a trainer, who shows the computer examples until it learns to complete the task. This shift ...
