IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 10th Anniversary11:30 – 12pm Check-in12:00 – 1pm Lunch, awards 1:00 – 2pm Remarks from past & current CE Society Chair (Abhi Duggar, Tom Coughlin, Gary Sasaki, Bill Orner, Michael Wang, & Joseph Wei) 2:00 – 3pm Keynote speakers: CE Trends for the next 10 years, Kevin Tillman, Consumer ...
Where: SunnyvaleCost: Free
TEDxSonomaCountyJoin the conversation at TEDxSonomaCounty 2014 with engaging speakers, artists and entertainers exploring the theme "Going to the Edge"Doors open at 12:15pm.Two sessions separated by an intermission.Food and wine reception following featuring tastes of Sonoma County.In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx ...
Where: Santa RosaCost: $40 General, $25 Student
Navigating the Bay Boating is a great way to relax and have some fun. It can be very exciting but it requires knowledge and skill to do it safely. Each bay has its own disposition and personality. Unpredictable winds, powerful tides, conflicting currents and gyres are just a few things that add to ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Science Saturday: Native Fish - Reintroducing Aquatic Animals to Mountain LakeJoin Darren Fong and Jon Young to learn more about the past, present, and future of aquatic animal life at Mountain Lake. Darren and Jon will demonstrate sampling techniques used to inventory aquatic animals, describe the ecological effects of non-native fish and turtles, and discuss reintroduction plans for native species like ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free (donation encouraged)
The Gemini Planetary Imager is a remarkable instrument that has already returned stunning pictures of exoplaets orbtiing their stars, a feat accomplished with the latest in adaptive optics, a coronograph to block the light form the parent star, a spectrometer, and the clear skies found at the Keck telescope in ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
The Birth of SunsWe normally think of space as empty, but it's not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on average, about 1 atom per cubic centimeter. That's a better vacuum than the best vacuum chamber we know how to make, but there are a lot of cubic centimeters in ...