How does the structure of the critical zone - especially below shallow soils and into saprolite and weathered rock - control water storage and release to California forests and streams? In this talk, I will address this question with a synthesis of observational and modeling results from three intensively studied ...
A real scenario: A high voltage 15,000 Volt electrical cable suddenly faults interrupting power: a factory halts production; a city is darkened; or the failure starts a wildfire's storm of destruction. Sudden utility cable failures can be massively destructive events. Yet, an impending failure is typically internal to the cable, ...
Where: MilpitasCost: Free
Smart Cities, Smart Cars, Smart People: Hope or Hype?Foresee the near future with panelists Shekar Ayyar, Joxel GarcÃa, Paul Gupta and Mike Weber. The number of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices is expected to increase from 20 billion to 55 billion over the next five years. What will that mean, in terms of new opportunities and new ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
The primary focus of image capture technologies have been focused on capturing a moment for a person to view, store, share or revisit. This has driven the focus on image capture to initially provide an image that mimics the scene as closely as what the user was viewing, and now ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free
Sustainability by Design: Innovation for a Circular EconomyJoin us for a discussion on the role of designers in actively shaping the path towards a more equitable planet. Alongside design experts from the Bay Area and Switzerland, we explore the question of social responsibility around consumer goods - and how design can incentivize people to live and act ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10
Healing a Trashed World- At 25 Cents a Cup?Martin Bourque, executive director of Berkeley’s Ecology Center, takes us on a tour through the gritty world of the international trash trade, why it isn’t working- and how Berkeley, despite its small size, can continue to be a force steering things right.
7:00-7:25: Lisa K Blatt(Photographer) on "Seeing the Invisible"'Photography and video to explore how landscape may be defined by what is not visible...Read more7:25-7:50: Adrienne Mayor(Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots"Who first imagined robots, automatons, human enhancements, and Artificial Intelligence?...Read more7:50-8:10: ...
Human beings tend to prefer cross-species measurements that put us at the top of the scale. Intelligence is one such measure. Are humans really the most intelligent creatures on the planet? Should this be obvious given our problem-solving ability and big brains? This presentation will look at some examples of ...
