Artificial Intelligence for General Game PlayingA GENERAL GAME PLAYING (GGP) SYSTEM is one that can play arbitrary games based solely on formal game descriptions supplied at "runtime". (Translation: it does not get the rules until the game starts.) Unlike specialized game players, such as Deep Blue, general game players do not rely on algorithms designed ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Can We Stop Alzheimer's Disease?What if there was a way to delay the development of Alzheimer's disease by up to seven years? With both wise food choices and scientifically based supplementation, Steve Blake thinks it just might be possible. Find out the importance of vitamin D, antioxidants and polyphenols from food when it comes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Geomagnetic Reversals and excursions: The origin of Earth's magnetic field - LOCATION CHANGEPalaeomagnetic observations offer important insights into the origin of Earth's interior, but a detailed reconstruction of the underlying dynamics is not feasible. A practical alternative is to construct a stochastic model for the time evolution of the dipole field.Slow changes in the field are described by a deterministic (drift) term, ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Healthcare: The Human Story"Healthcare: The Human Story" will be presented by Anna Deavere Smith, playwright - actor - professor, who uses her unique brand of theatre to highlight issues of community, character, and diversity in America. She is best known for crafting one-woman, multi-character plays about American social issues.Room: Berg Hall
Like a Rind-stone Cowgirl How Rind Creates and Controls the Cheese BelowEat all the cheeses AND know what you'll find even before you cut the rind! The Bay Area's own Cowgirl Creamery sends their expert cheesemaker to share secret knowledge about how different rinds affect cheese flavors as they grow. ...
Where: NovatoCost: $5
Tree Hunting in FremontThe California Nursery Company in Niles, was the largest nursery in the west coast in the 1920's-30's. We will take a tree hunt and learn many of the trees that we still find in Fremont through hands on activities. Learn about how you can take a tour of trees at ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
Civilization's InfrastructureInfrastructure decisions-and failures to decide-affect everything about a society for centuries. That long shadow, James Fallows points out, is what makes the decisions so difficult, because "We must choose among options whose consequences we can't fully anticipate." What we do know is that infrastructure projects are hugely disruptive and expensive ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16.52 General, Free for members
Richard Dawkins: Brief Candle in the Dark, My Life in Science"A century from now historians will take note of a mere handful of scientific luminaries from the second half of the 20th century who changed not just their science but their culture.First among them will surely be Richard Dawkins, unquestionably one of the great minds of our time who is ...
