ROSETTA-PHILAE Comet LandingJoin us to witness history. Over the past decade Europe's ROSETTA spacecraft has been traveling toward a rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and arrived there last August. Now ROSETTA is getting set to achieve a first-ever feat in space exploration: landing a probe, Philae, on the surface of the comet. We're ...
Where: OaklandCost: $7
Communicating Across the Cosmos: Summary of a Workshop on Interstellar Message DesignFor over a half century, astronomers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have scanned the skies for signals from distant civilizations. Would humans be able to decode information-rich signals from another planet? Could we create a "universal language" that would be meaningful to an independently evolved civilization? To ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Energy Investments in Start-upsNat Goldhaber is a co-founder of Claremont Creek Ventures and brings more than 30 years of information technology experience across Internet, networking, energy, healthcare, and transportation sectors as a successful investor and entrepreneur.
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occurring in Our MidstHuman beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, how that information is interconnected. As medical data continues to explode and become increasingly digital, the vast amount of information that is able to be ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) was closed abruptly and permanently in February 2012. During the previous decade, SONGS had produced about 8% of the electricity generated in California, so its closure had a pronounced impact on the wholesale market, requiring large and immediate increases in generation from other sources. ...
Abstractions for Multi-Material 3D Printing A wide-spread adoption of 3D printing is democratizing manufacturing. The ever expanding range of printing materials allows for fabrication of complex multi-material objects that cannot be manufactured using any other method. However, while there has been tremendous progress in the development of the output devices, the provided digital content creation ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
I ♥ Logs: Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, and Real-time DataThis talk will discuss how logs and stream-processing can form a backbone for data flow, ETL, and real-time data processing. It will describe the challenges and lessons learned as LinkedIn built out its real-time data subscription and processing infrastructure. It will also discuss the role of real-time processing and its ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How are we doing? The National Parks and Fire Management - CANCELLEDCome join us for a stirring panel discussion around fire in National Parks with experts in the field. The panelists will discuss both the history of fire management in parks like Yosemite, but also the strategies and complications with managing fires today, such as allowing lightning fires to burn in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $6.27 General, Free for members
Lloyd Knox, Ph.D., of the University of California, Davis, will discuss Images of the Infant Universe: The Latest Results from the Planck Satellite, an illustrated, non-technical lecture.
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 parking)
Biologging: Using technology to study the elephant seals of Año NuevoThe northern elephant seal is an iconic species along the california coast. Once near extinction, the population has recovered and is allowing researchers a unique glimpse into the depths of the north Pacific. The combination of a consistent research program (Dan Costa's lab at UC Santa Cruz), a unique location ...
What comes after the Internet? What is bigger than the web? What will produce more wealth than all the startups to date? The answer is a planetary super-organism comprised of 4 billion mobile phones, 80 quintillion transistor chips, a million miles of fiber optic cables, and 6 billion human minds ...
