California's Climate Action PlansCommunities throughout the state have developed climate action plans aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Boswell, Cal Poly professor of city and regional planning and co-author of Local Climate Action Planning, discusses these plans, what is working well and what the challenges have been. He will also present the ...
Communities throughout the state have developed climate action plans aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Boswell, Cal Poly professor of city and regional planning and co-author of Local Climate Action Planning, discusses these plans, what is working well and what the challenges have been. He will also present the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free members
Programming with People: Integrating Human-Based and Digital ComputationAbstract: Humans can perform many tasks with ease that remain difficult or impossible for computers. Crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk make it possible to harness human-based computational power on an unprecedented scale. However, their utility as a general-purpose computational platform remains limited. The lack of complete automation makes it ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
LTE and How To Meet the Exponential Increase In Traffic Demand351 operators in 104 countries are investing in LTE. LTE advanced can reach peak data rates of up to 1Gbps. In this talk we will give an overview on the development of LTE and the main technology components. In particular we will focus on the use of multi antenna techniques. ...
Because of the difficulty in making measurements under controlled conditions, most of what is known about the fluid dynamics of tornadoes comes from laboratory experiments that produce vorticies with features similar to those observed in a tornado. Numerical simulation of laboratory experiments has become a valuable analytical tool owing to ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Marasmius of BoliviaEach general meeting begins with mushroom identification and cultivation delights, then features a guest speaker on a selected mycological topic.Speaker: Brennan Wenck
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Microsoft Research's Rick Rashid in Conversation with John Markoff of The New York TimesAs Chief Research Officer, Richard (Rick) F. Rashid oversees worldwide operations for Microsoft Research, the largest computer science research organization in the world, encompassing more than 850 researchers across eleven global labs. Under Rashid's leadership, Microsoft Research conducts both basic and applied research across disciplines that include algorithms and theory; ...
Join us for a lively conversation jointly presented by the San Francisco Opera and the California Academy of Science where we will dive into the ocean's depths to explore the sights, sounds and science surrounding Herman Melville's great classic Moby-Dick as presented by the San Francisco Opera. This masterpiece of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members
Terry Henkel will focus some of the "concept-shattering" neotropical macrofungi recently discovered and described by Henkel and his colleagues. Concepts of higher mushroom taxa are shaped by our knowledge of fungi from the northern realms. In the tropics understanding of the macromycota has lagged far behind. Years of collecting in Guyana's rainforests ...
