Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping TechnologiesThe United States has moved large portions of business and commerce, including the control of critical infrastructure, online. This reliance on information systems leaves the U.S. highly exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack. Yet despite this, U.S. law enforcement and national security policy remain firmly focused on building wiretapping systems within ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Giving Birth to the Fifth Generation Light SourceIn order for accelerator-based "big science" to survive, giving new horizons to essential instruments high energy physics colliders and free-electron lasers, they must be greatly diminished in size and cost, while simultaneously giving ever higher performance. In this talk we trace, through our current experimental and theoretical work at UCLA, ...
Ashok Gadgil is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Concurrently, Dr. Gadgil is Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, located next ...
Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania is home to 2,500 elephants and is one of the best places in Africa to see large herds of these fabulous animals. Charles Foley and his wife, Lara, have been studying the elephant population of Tarangire for the past 17 years and have individually ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12-$20 General, $10-$20 Members, sliding scale
