In 1900, a party of sponge divers chanced on the wreck of a Roman merchant vessel between Crete and mainland Greece. It was found to contain numerous ancient Greek treasures, among them a mysterious lump of clay that split open to reveal 'mathematical gears', now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. ...
Digital 6th SenseA global innovator in mobile technology, Dr. Jacobs is leading the convergence of connectivity, context and control to give us a digital "sixth sense" that will transform our lives - from how we communicate to how we interact with the world.Speaker: Dr. Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm
Mostly missless memory in the Mill CPU: Avoiding the pain of cache misses in a atatically-scheduled architectureThe Mill is a new CPU architecture designed for very high single-thread performance within a very small power envelope. It achieves DSP-like power/performance on general purpose codes, without reprogramming. The Mill is a wide-issue, statically scheduled design with exposed pipeline. High-end Mills can decode, issue, and execute over thirty MIMD ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Cosmology after PlanckThe Planck Telescope has made an accurate full-sky measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, the leftover heat from the big bang. These measurements probe both the physics of the very early universe and the basic properties of the universe today. The Planck measurements confirm the earlier results from ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Stanford Biology Thinks Big!Come to the first Stanford Biology Thinks Big!, an exciting symposium that will feature engaging, TED-like talks from four Stanford professors. John Boothroyd, Carlos Bustamante, Susan McConnell, and Mary Teruel represent the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Genetics, Biology, and Chemical and Systems Biology, and the event is designed to ...
In the Milky Way groups of stars range from sparse collections of only a few dozen stars, to massive globular clusters with a million members. Dr. Stahler will explain the basic reason why Nature forms stars in groups and why different regions of space create such vastly different entities. This ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF! Confessions of an Alien HunterSeth Shostak knew he would spend his life hunting for signs of life in the Universe from the time he was just 10 years old. He is now Senior Astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and ...
