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The Technology of Access: Allowing People of Age to Vote for ThemselvesUniversal access is an important goal of technology. This talk examines several evolving voting technologies and their impact on persons with cognitive and physical disabilities. The research described will show how many of the accessibility opportunities for people of age could actually improve the performance of the voting population as ...
Instructions Sets Should Be Free: The Case for RISC-VThe increasing popularity today of systems on a chip, where processors are just part of the design, calls into question why one of the most important interfaces is proprietary. We argue that:There is no good technical reason not to have free, open instruction sets just as we have free, open ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Storms from the SunThe weather patterns of the Sun are powerful, ever changing, and mesmerizingly beautiful. They drive explosions of literally astronomical proportions that can escape the Sun's gravity to affect all of the planets from nearby Mercury to distant Uranus, including Earth. Space storms involve a force that we generally ignore in our daily lives: ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #53: Undead Philosophy, Math, and Space Man!For all the meteorological, celestial, and sporting delights this San Francisco October has offered, there is nothing more delightful than an autumnal Nerd Nite at the Rickshaw Stop! It's getting dark out there, so come early, gulp an intoxicating beverage, let Alpha Bravo's vinyl vibrate your eardrums, and hear tell ...