A long dune field blew across the city. The ice age was over. Alamo Square Park is an outcrop of rock (one of many) jutting up through the vast dune field. Like all of our bedrock, water springs up through the fissures, even at hilltops. We'll explore places that were ...
Online civic engagement has the potential to dramatically improve a government's interactions with its community, and thereby increase public trust – but only if the online engagement augments participation, increases insights and avoids challenges related to the issues of undue influence, transparency, open data, privacy, responsiveness, civility and free speech.The ...
Personality traits form a key driver behind people's behavior, cognitions, motivations and emotions; and thus assessing others' personality is a basic social skill and a crucial element of successful social interactions. However, based on a sample of over a million participants, I show that personality judgments made by computers and ...
Machine learning and natural language processing provide a framework for extracting meaning from text, and have given us great advances over the past fifty years in areas as diverse as machine translation, question answering, and information retrieval. Many of the written texts that we apply these techniques to â news ...
Rust is a new systems language, initially developed at Mozilla, and rapidly approaching its 1.0 release. The goal of the language is to combine safety and control. In particular, Rust guarantees memory and type safety, but does not require a garbage collector, and provides for the kind of zero cost ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Cli-Fi 2015The notion that humans can fundamentally alter the biochemistry of something as big as the Earth's atmosphere seems like science fiction to some. While politicians debate whether or not climate change is real, authors and filmmakers are tackling the far-out implications in a new genre called Climate Fiction or Cli-Fi. ...
Where: LafayetteCost: $22 General, $12 Members, $7 Student
Climate Disruption - Vulnerable MarinJust how vulnerable is Marin to climate change? Marin communities are already being impacted by effects of climate change, as witnessed in December with over $13 million in damages due to storms. How are we going to gauge our preparedness for this increasing stressor (not to mention wildfires and drought), ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $10 Advance/$15 at Door General, Free for members
Planck: Echoes from the Big BangProf. Francois R. Bouchet of the Institut d' Astrophysique in Paris, France will give the 32nd annual Bunyan Lecture.
