Future-Proof WaterThe Bay Area is growing rapidly. It's riven with earthquake faults. And it's already experiencing climate change. Given all this, how is your water supplier preparing to meet future demand? A new SPUR report sizes up the region's water supply and demand and recommends ways to improve water reliability and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
The 34th match for the America's Cup will be held on San Francisco Bay this summer. For the first time, the America's Cup will be contested by mutual consent in multihulls. A new class, the AC72, has been agreed upon as a new class for America's Cup competition. These are ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
NASAScience4Girls and Their FamiliesThe Sun is our closest star! Join us and find out how NASA is helping us learn about our Sun, what it can teach us about other stars, and the many ways it affects our life on Earth.
Michael C. Sekora: Technology-Based Planning, the Foundation of All Competitive AdvantageSekora, who was the founder and director of Project Socrates, a U.S. intelligence community initiative under President Reagan, will posit that the shift from technology-based planning to economic-based planning has caused our nation to lose its ability to compete economically. Sekora contends that technology-based planning is the key to competitive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students
Dr. Rogers will start with basic facts about Alzheimer's disease, many of which are often misunderstood even by the most experienced caregivers. He will then cover what's being done at SRI and other research organizations around the world to treat this terrible disorder. Although there have been recent disappointments, there ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Right-Sizing Precision: Save Energy, Power, and StorageMost computer programs use far more precision than needed, because programmers find it easier to use excess precision as insurance against rounding or overflow errors instead of analyzing what precision is actually needed. Sometimes we might actually need more precision. We are attempting ever more ambitious calculations with ever less ...
Dr. Laughlin won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for his part in research to explain the quantum Hall effect in semiconductor physics. He is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University.This talk follows the course of Dr. Laughlin's recent book of ...
