Since Fall 2002, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering has hosted the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium (SVLS). The Symposium hosts industry and technology leaders to talk about business and technology trends. It also features prominent leaders who discuss broader societal and political issues that shape our life and society.Pat ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
LITQUAKE: The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious ResourceAward-winning writer Obi Kaufman offers an illustrated guide to the ways we conserve, use, abuse and restore water--the source of life and habitat in California.Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his attention to the Golden State's most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
The New Jim Code: Race, Caceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday LifeFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, presents the concept ...
Evolving Shorelines Happy Hour - Adapting to sea level rise in our communityOne Tam partners, Marin County Parks and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, are about to embark on developing designs to adapt Bothin Marsh Open Space Preserve and the Mill Valley / Sausalito Pathway to climate change and sea level rise. Come out and talk with us to find out ...
Adaptive Optics is a technology that detects and corrects changing distortions in optical systems. It has been applied to great effect during the past decade to correct astronomical telescopes for blurring due to turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. This talk will describe how Adaptive Optics works, and how it is ...
Drop, cover, and hold on . . . to After Dark: Earthquakes, where we’ll commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake and look ahead to the latest in earthquake preparation, safety research, and building practices. And don’t miss the return of Everything Matters, which picks up with element ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95, 14.95 explO members, AD members free
Automotive Ethernet and Functional SafetyOver the past several years there has been an upheaval in the automotive networking space as a number of mega-trends drive major changes:The trend towards a user defined car,Autonomous vehicle technology,ElectrificationThe presentation will cover these changes taking place in the in-vehicle-networking space, with an emphasis on automotive Ethernet and the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Seismic NightLifeWe’re bracing ourselves for vibrations during Seismic NightLife, including on the dance floor. On the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, we’re digging back into seismic matters and ‘80s culture. Look back at the City’s major 20th-century earthquakes through historic images, and look to the future with experts in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Varies
Conservation of Waterbirds of the North BayFor 30 years, Audubon Canyon Ranch has been studying the ecology of wintering and migrant shorebirds and waterbirds in the Bay Area. Find out what they've learned, as well as the results of their 50 years of work on herons and egrets throughout the Bay. This will include a presentation ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $5 donation for non members.
