Birds & BotanyHike the forests, meadows and hills around Pine Flat and up Redhill with ACR Volunteer Patrick Woodworth & ACR Resource Ecologist Dave Self. We’ll be watching (and listening) for birds on the hike out. After lunch, we'll botanize as we consider the seasonal interplay between bird foods, habitat history and current activity ...
Where: GeyservilleCost: Free
Adventures in Program RepairProgrammers constantly face errors that are confusing and hard to fix. In particular, inexperience programmers, who cannot address commonly occurring errors, have to resort to online help-forums for finding corrections to their buggy programs. I will present three ideas that leverage advances in program synthesis to automatically assist unskilled programmers ...
How People Intentionally Teach Agents in Interactive SettingsPeople intuitively teach other people, animals, and even machines. Psychologically, teaching involves multiple interacting processes including modeling the learning agent, predicting its future behavior, and deciding on how teaching actions can facilitate learning. This raises questions about social cognition and interaction, as well as questions of how to design systems ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Soil Health Series: Composting Methods & Biological Properties of Soil (Rescheduled)Soil is the most complex biomaterial on Earth...really! Join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for a hands-on class to discover the basics of creating a successful compost, and how the soil foodweb drives the sustainability of nearly all living things on Earth. Prepare to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Donations encouraged
Increasing Freeway Capacity by Efficiently Timing its Nearby Arterial Traffic SignalsThe objective of freeway on-ramp metering is to regulate the entry of vehicles to prevent capacity drop on the freeway mainline. However, the nearby arterial traffic signals facilitating freeway access fail to recognize that the metered on-ramps can be oversaturated due to the flow restriction and limited storage. Instead, the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Twilight HikeTake advantage of this rare opportunity to experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve as dusk arrives and the animals start to appear. Our twilight hikes are on select Fridays throughout spring and fall. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie ...
Using your Eyes and your Camera to get the most out of Solar EclipsesOn August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States will see nature's most wondrous spectacle - a total eclipse of the Sun. It is a scene of unimaginable beauty; the Moon completely blocks the Sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight, and the Sun’s corona shimmers in the darkened ...
