Our University was created by Californians to improve the quality of their lives. As a research university we fulfil that role by converting our amazingly creative discoveries into practical benefits for society. An efficient way to provide benefits while simultaneously promoting job and economic growth is for our scientists to ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Three Presentations at Romberg Tiburon CenterAnn Holmes (Kimmerer Lab) Using high-throughput sequencing to quantify zooplankton diets in delta smelt habitat Ryan Hartnett (Nielsen Lab) Connecting the dots in the Gulf of the Farallones: from physical ocean conditions to ocean productivity to the top of the food web Tricia Lee (Wilkerson Lab) SFE ...
Both managed and native pollinators have suffered recent declines, leading to concerns that crop pollination will suffer in the future, particularly since an increasing proportion of agriculture is devoted to production of pollinator-dependent crops. In California, this is certainly the case, with the massive conversion of many agricultural lands to ...
Knowledge Vault and Knowledge-Based TrustIn this talk we describe our knowledge extraction and fusion efforts at Google, including the Knowledge Vault project and the Knowledge-based Trust project. We use 15 extractors to periodically extract knowledge from 1B+ Webpages. The results are 3B+ distinct (subject, predicate, object) knowledge triples. Errors can creep in at every ...
Alan Turing's one-dimensional model of universal computation of 1936 led directly to John von Neumann's two-dimensional implementation of 1946. The Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study jump-started the digital revolution by bringing engineers into the den of the mathematicians, rather than by bringing mathematicians into a den ...
Where: Palo AltoCost:
2015 Lawson Lecture: Induced Earthquakes in the 21st CenturyEarthquakes triggered by human activities have been documented for over half a century, but the past decade has seen a resurgence of induced earthquakes associated with energy resources. In 2006, a M3.4 earthquake occurred during geothermal energy development in Basel, Switzerland, causing the project to be abandoned. In 2009, concerns ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: FREE
Cryptography: From Mathematical Magic to Secure CommunicationCryptography, the science of communicating securely, is used by billions of people to protect Internet traffic from prying eyes. It is also a vibrant area of research where new discoveries are made every year. This talk will explore the beautiful mechanisms that enable secure communication on the Internet and describe ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Science at the Theater, 5 Big QuestionsEvery discovery and invention starts with a question. From simulating supernovae, to growing food in our cities, to the enormity of tackling the emperor of all maladies, come see Berkeley Lab scientists dive into the big questions that drive their research.Scientists include:Judy Campisi - Cancer and agingKai Vetter - Radiation and ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Conversations on Science: The Internet of Things (IoT)Widely known as the "Father of the Internet," Vinton Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. He worked on developing the protocols that would become the basis for internet communication throughout the 1970s. In the early 1980s, while at MCI, he developed and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27 General, $24 Members
Evolutionary tools to solve environmental problemsNovel pathogens, pests, and plants are introduced to California every day through the global movement of people and goods from around the world. Most of these organisms are unable to thrive and are never noticed, but a small number become invasive weeds or cause destructive diseases or pest outbreaks. How ...
Keith Hansen is a wildlife artist who specializes in the inspirational and accurate portrayal of birds.His most resent endeavor has been a 14 year project illustrating the book "Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status and Distribution", authored by Ted Beedy and Ed Pandolfino. He illustrated about 1,400 portraits ...
