Deep learning is based on technical advances made by the neural network revolution in the 1980's.  Why did it take so long for neural networks to recognize speech and objects in images at human levels?  What were the breakthroughs that made deep learning possible?  Which industries will deep learning disrupt?  How will deep ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Coherent Defects in DiamondSpeaker: Nathalie de Leon, HarvardApplied Physics/Physics ColloquiumEditor's Note: This lecture was originally listed for May 16.
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Science Speakeasy No. 1 - Out of This World: From Caves to SpaceIn this Science Speakeasy prepare for some extreme science! First, we’ll explore the depths of our past with Alia Gurtov, one of six “underground astronaut†archaeologists who excavated the newly discovered Homo naledi fossils in Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Then we’ll explore the far reaches of our future ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Mary T. Crowley, Project Kaisei & Ocean Voyage InstituteProject Kaisei is the ocean clean-up initiative of Ocean Voyage Institute , a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. It was established to focus on major ocean clean-up and to raise awareness regarding the global problem of marine debris/ocean trash. Since its inception in 2009, Project Kaisei heralds the need ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 suggested donation
Astronomy Lecture with Clio Sleator (UCB)Please join Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society for the May 23rd. general meeting. The meeting starts at 7:15 and ends at 9:15. Our monthly meetings begin with a short “What’s Up†presented by one of our members, followed by a speaker. This month’s speaker is Clio Sleator of the UC Berkeley ...
Eureka! is an interactive science comedy show where scientists talk, comedians crack jokes, and audience members win fun, silly prizes.Science doesn't just live in the lab. Last April hundreds of thousands of people marched to show that science is political too. And there's no more politicized subject of research than climate ...
Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West was president of Santa Fe Institute from 02005 to 02009 and founded the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His current areas of research are cities, scaling, & sustainability and the hidden laws that pervade complex biological & social phenomena.
