The Stanford campus has become a key test bed for one of the world’s most vexing energy challenges: How to manipulate people’s demand for electricity so it rises when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing and falls when they’re not. A global race is on to maximize ...
Artificial Intelligence owes its current successes to the extraordinary improvement in computer hardware (in my lifetime, computing has become a trillion times cheaper!). At the same time, the Internet has made available vast amounts of data for these program to handle.The benefits of AI will be profound. But so will ...
Where: Palo AltoCost: Free
Introduction to greenhouse gas (GHG) management for oil & gas productionIntroduction to greenhouse gas (GHG) management for oil & gas productionCalifornia climate legislation and regulation: cap-and-trade, direct source control, community health nexusIndustry’s response: reporting, research, technology developmentSpekaers: Kathleen Kozawa, California Air Resources Board; Adam Pacsi, ChevronÂ
 Join NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers and get a sneak peek of the upcoming InSight Mars mission, the first to focus on examining the deep interior of Mars. Launching in May 2018, this lander will be the very first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. The Exploratorium will host the InSight ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: 17.95 advance, 19.95 door, AD members free
SpaceQuest NightLifeGet trippy as NightLife travels far out with art, performances, and ideas inspired by the future of life in space. -----> Choreographer Katerina Wong presents Speck, a dance performance about humans, space exploration, and the connections between them, using sounds from the Voyager Golden Record and other NASA missions.----->Â Explore the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Across the Pacific Coast, Western Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) face many hurdles to population recovery, including habitat loss, increasing predator populations, and human disturbance. Within the South SF Bay, Snowy Plovers breed and forage in former salt production ponds, where they face significant challenges to recovery in a changing ...
What Are We Protecting Mars From - And Why Do We Bother?Mars, the small, cold fourth rock from the Sun, is being given serious consideration by 21st century explorers. Entrepreneur Elon Musk has ambitious plans to send humans to the Red Planet within seven years (and bring them back again); NASA has flown both rovers and landers; and NASA, the European ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
An Evening with Rebecca Skloot and Members of the Henrietta Lacks FamilyHenrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose tumor cells were preserved for research in the early 1950s. These cells became the first lab-grown human cells that were naturally "immortal", not dying after a number of divisions. Thereafter, they were used for a large variety of experiments, becoming one of ...
