As we witnessed each launch of the Apollo program, we would forever remember the countdown, ignition sequence, images of the Saturn V rocket engines billowing out vast, fast and furious hot gas, and then lift off. We'll never forget those sheets of ice breaking off the exterior and raining down ...
We describe our research based on extensive interactions with Silicon Valley and other firms, including AOL, SAP, Cisco, IBM, healthcare and energy.I will focus particularly on Hierarchical Bayesian models, including Bayesian Kalman filtering, in addressing the following problems:- Online Advertising: Attribution modeling – Assigning credit for user commercial actions to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Climate Change: What's Going On With the Sun? Throughout the past century, while greenhouse gas (GHG) abundances have been steadily increasing and influencing Earth's climate, the Sun has remained relatively bright and quiescent. Solar cycles have been steadily active, with instantaneous sunspot numbers at solar maximum exceeding 100 in every cycle since 1893 (Cycle 13). The climate warming ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
CityHash: fast hash functions for stringsThe CityHash project began at Google in 2010 when I realized that we should push engineers to use faster and better hash functions for strings. While researching exactly what to recommend, we developed our own family of hash functions that are excellent for hash tables.The primary goal of CityHash is ...
Finding the Next Earth: The Latest Results from KeplerFoothill College Astronomy Series.With the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft in 2009, humanity's quest to find planets orbiting other stars took a great leap forward. Dr. Batalha will describe the techniques used by the Kepler team to identify Earth-size planets and update us on the remarkable progress they are making. ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free ($3 Parking)
Nerd Nite SF #29: Explosives, Coral Reproduction, and Sideshow 'Freaks'Where else but NNSF do you get the sexiest, freakiest, most explosively drunken lectures around? We'll have a chemist talking about blowing things up, a biologist who lives to help sea creatures get it on, and a physician/scientist taking us beyond the sideshow and deep into the science of the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $8
Politicizing the Classroom: Challenges to Climate Change Education in America's Public SchoolsEach year, thousands of school aged children in the US are taught "both sides of the climate change controversy," with school boards in over a dozen states having passed policies categorizing climate change along with evolution and human cloning as "controversial science." There are, however, some bright spots in the ...
