Where's Waldo? A Brain's PerspectiveWhere’s Waldo? A Brain’s Perspective. "Where’s Waldo?†is just one of thousands of examples of visual search we perform every single day. From driving a car to looking for groceries in a store to avoiding NPCs video games, we, as humans, are constantly using our visual system to search through ...
The Health and Film Working Group, Program in Bioethics and Film, Medicine and the Muse is proud to present a screening of the 2017 Academy Award nominated short documentary film Extremis with a discussion and Q&A following the screening featuringDr. Jessica Zitter and Dr. Shoshana UngerleiderRoom 120
Where: StanfordCost: Free
A Universal Low-latency Real-time Optical Flow based Stereoscopic Panoramic Video Communication System for AR/VRIntroduce an optimized system for real time, low latency stereoscopic panoramic video communications that is camera agnostic. After intelligent camera calibration, the system is capable of stitching inputs from different cameras using a real time, low latency optical flow based algorithm that intelligently learns input video features over time to ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $5 General, Free for members
Science at the Library: Fossils through the Ages Many weird and wild animals have lived in the past. Their fossils give us clues of a changing Earth.  Look at dinosaurs and ice age mega fauna. Look at some of the fossils that tell us the story of the changing Bay Area. Register at weblink
Where: FremontCost: Free
Benjamin Woo's Russula Herbarium and his contribution to scienceAnna Bazzicalupo grew up in Naples, Italy. She did her undergrad and masters degrees in Scotland.As a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, she is interested in the taxonomy and systematics of Russula of the Pacific Northwest. Her work involves using this complicated group as an example of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: How the Kepler Space Telescope is Revealing the Birthplaces of PlanetsThanks to numerous ground and space-based surveys, we are now aware of over 3300 planets orbiting other stars, with another nearly 2500 candidates from the Kepler Mission awaiting confirmation. The Universe is teeming with rocky and gaseous bodies. How did these planet systems form and evolve toward their present configurations? ...
