Have you ever wondered what happens to the dirty water from your shower, laundry and toilet after it goes down the drain? What about the runoff from lawns and gardens, and rainwater and car washing? You'll see first-hand what happens after your flush down the toilet, learn about the wastewater ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Computational Thinking and the Pedagogy of Computable ContentLast year, I gave a keynote that launched from the idea of "computational thinking" and then put forward that computing generates new knowledge (which is why we care about reproducibility in computational science) and proposed that computing is hence a form of learning. I had this insight from seeing students ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Incentive to Overinvest in Energy Efficiency: Evidence from Hourly Smart-Meter DataMost consumers of electricity pay a marginal price that far exceeds the marginal social cost of providing that electricity. We show that such pricing schemes provide a large subsidy for energy efficiency investments. Using hourly smart-meter data for consumers that face increasing block pricing, we estimate the effect of an air conditioner upgrade on ...
"Smart Cities" are an example of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) with direct impact to urban settings, where sensor and actuator networks are deployed to monitor the environment and civil infrastructure. Based on data collected, the goals include improvements in traffic control, energy distribution, emergency response, and location- based commerce, to name ...
Join us for a special dusk/night hike (relatively flat) in search of the two inhabitants whose nightly sounds "haunt" many of our human visitors: The coyote and the great horned owl. Along the way, we will learn more about the secret lives of these reclusive creatures.Estimated time: Five miles in ...
In 2003 we sequenced one complete human genome. It took over a decade and billions of dollars.Now in 2015, we can sequence a genome in a few days for one one-millionth of that price. We have already sequenced tens of thousands of genomes, and genotyped millions more. The next decade will see an explosion ...
