Science Evidence About Global WarmingClimate change: Lecture by Canadian Professor Jacques Guertin presents what science evidence says about global warming. Registration is REQUIRED as space is limited and lunch will be served. Contact seminar organizers, Bay Area Older Adults, a Santa Clara County-based nonprofit. Adults age 50+ should call 408-774-0593 or register by email: share@bayareaolderadults.org and give both your name ...
Big Graph Data ScienceOne of the challenges in big data analytics lies in being able to reason collectively about extremely large, heterogeneous, incomplete, noisy interlinked data. We need data science techniques which canrepresent and reason effectively with this form of rich and multi-relational graph data. In this presentation, Dr. Lise Getoor will describe some common collective inference ...
The Women's Environmental Network is hosting an event with networking and a talk on the topic of wildlife conservation with a focus on Asian elephants in Sri Lanka. The esteemed speaker, Shermin de Silva, is the president of Trunks and Leaves, a nonprofit that seeks to promote the conservation of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for members
John Sterling will present some of his Smithsonian research supporting the Bird-Friendly Coffee movement. He will discuss why some coffee farms are better than others for birds, why good coffee farms are critical for conservation, and will illustrate his talk with photos of birds from coffee farms in Latin America, ...
In our society - and in education, especially - people are encouraged to provide the "right" answer, and are not encouraged to focus on the process utilized to achieve the results. Consequently, most of us hate being wrong. This talk will examine the psychological processes at work when we make ...
