Open Source NeuroscienceWe want to understand how brains work. New technologies let us measure and manipulate neural activity, at the scale of large populations or entire brains, in behaving animals. However, this in turns yields a new challenge-how to make sense of our data. I will describe an ecosystem of open source ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
A discussion of the first JIT compiler with L Peter Deutsch and Allan M SchiffmanIn the 1984 POPL conference there appeared a paper, Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System, by L Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman. This paper introduced the first truly modern just-in-time compiler and described several novel implementation techniques, still in widespread use, to improve the performance of object-oriented languages. ...
Presented by Dr. Nancy Merrick, author of "Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives," and founder of ChimpSaver.org. Come learn about the risks chimps are facing as they struggle to co-exist with Africa's growing human population, and hear about efforts to improve the situation for ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12 - $20
Mirror-Making Machine, SIT Testing, and Shop StrategiesJeff Baldwin is a mirror maker in Lathrop, just south of Stockton. He has made approximately 400 mirrors. Recently he and a friend made a mirror-making machine that will produce mirrors up to about 46" in diameter. He is also using the Slit Image Test (SIT) to produce high-precision mirrors ...
