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Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy hosts a conversation on Sustainable Energy Finance featuring Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman of Bank of America, in conversation with Richard Kauffman, Chair of General Capital. Stanford's Sustainable Finance Initiative managing director, Alicia Seiger joins Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy co-director, Aun Majumdar in hosting the ...
The Four Ways We Tell Machines What We Want, and How We Can Do Better - LivestreamIn our modern world, computers recommend movies they think we’ll like, remind us to order more laundry detergent, and answer our burning questions without breaking a sweat. But how do computer systems know how to do these things for us? It depends on how they were designed.Over two lectures, renowned ...
Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of how to live in symbiosis with nature. Without implementing soft systems that use biodiversity as a building block, designs remain inherently unsustainable.There is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and ...
