When we use robots to explore the ocean and its inhabitants, other planets, or our co-worker’s remote office spaces, we are blending our human perceptual systems and physical actuation capabilities with robotic systems. These systems can readily become an extension of ourselves, especially after years of practice. Coming from a ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Plankton Exhibit TourJoin Exploratorium biologist Jennifer Frazier for a tour of plankton and marine science exhibits.San Francisco Bay is teeming with microscopic life, called plankton, that change with the seasons, feed marine ecosystems, and collectively produce half the oxygen for the planet. Come explore interactive exhibits that explore plankton in San Francisco ...
Bring your lunch and hear from Exploratorium staff and collaborating scientists about the connections between San Francisco Bay and the ocean. Exploratorium staff scientist Heike Winterheld will discuss how social psychology can help you improve communication and lower psychological barriers to learning about the current state of the ocean and ...
There is a lot of misinformation thrown around these days, especially online. Headlines tell us to do this, not that, with the hope that we will live longer and better, become thinner, and look younger. In Hype, Nina Shapiro distinguishes between falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth. Shapiro has more than twenty ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Tomorrow’s Computers: More Moore?A single iPhone today has more power than the NASA computer that took astronauts to the moon. A smartwatch has more memory than computers that used to fill an entire room. So how did we get here? In 1965, Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost:
What is new on Software I.P. for startups, and how to detect I.P. TheftRelevant I.P. updates in 2018 to software start-upsEvery major and successful software company has a patent portfolio and strategy that has been a key factor in its success. This presentation will focus on the patentability of software as well as why and when an entity should consider pursuing patent protection. ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #99: Mars Colonization, Rational Economics, and Octopuses from Space!“Not So Fast, Elon: Challenges of Resurrecting the Martian Atmosphere†by Dr. Robert LillisMars’s atmosphere is dry, cold, and too thin to stop you from bursting like a balloon or getting cancer from cosmic rays. Eeeek, right? But billions of years ago it was thick, warm and (sometimes) wet. If ...
The distribution of galaxies in the universe is patchy. Galaxies are bound together in clusters made of stars, hot gas and invisible dark matter. These galaxy clusters are part of a cosmic web of filaments, nodes and empty voids that has been building up over 13 billion years. How do ...
