As engineers and scientists, we spend years building our toolkit of design and analysis methods. As projects grow, however, they reach a scale of complexity where one or two experts cannot mentally hold an entire system in their heads. The challenge in building complex systems comes from capturing and communicating ...
Where: Moss LandingCost: Free
Behind-the-Scenes Apollo Exhibit TourA special look at the enhanced Apollo exhibition on board, with opportunities to speak to the Collections & Exhibitions Team. Come aboard throughout the day to hear stories about some of the unique artifacts in the exhibit and get some hands-on experience with artifact care in musuems with our interactive Education Collection! ...
Rolling hills, fertile soil: John Steinbeck’s California contrasts a Central Valley that “shouts with grass†during wet years and “puts a terror in the valley†in dry ones. Now, 70 years and four droughts later, California’s cyclical water shortages continue to disrupt a robust agricultural economy one that produces up ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America Long before Margaret O’Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government, ...
July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the surface of the moon. In that time, the Apollo missions, a fleet of robotic probes and observations from Earth have taught us a lot about Earth’s surprising satellite. In this nontechnical talk, Andrew Fraknoi, who is sometimes ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 - $40
Inside the Black Box: How Does a Neural Network Understand Names?A cornerstone of customer relationship management, chatbot analytics, and research automation systems, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key commercial application of Natural Language Processing (NLP). State of the art approaches to NER are purely data driven, leveraging deep neural networks to identify named entity mentions - such as people, ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
Nerd Nite SF #110: Radioactive Elements, Lager, and Cable Cars!“Radioactive and Heavy Metals - The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?†by Rebecca AbergelExposure to heavily radioactive elements after a nuclear accident is a terrifying thought. But radioactive elements - including some that were created and added to the periodic table by scientists here in the Bay Area - ...
