SynBioBeta 2020: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference - VirtualJoin us to see how synthetic biology is disrupting consumer products, food, agriculture, medicine, chemicals, materials, and more. The SynBioBeta Global Synthetic Biology Conference 2020 unites the leading biological engineers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who make up this fast-growing industry - all during one impactful event. Come learn the latest ...
 The world is projected to generate 90 zettabytes of data this year and the next. That’s more than all the data produced since the arrival of computers, and if we still used DVD’s, we’d need 19 trillion to store it all. Swimming in this massive sea of information, humans are ...
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Social Justice Series: Building Healthy Communities - LivestreamWhat does a healthy community look like and how is it achieved? Dr. Iton is considered one of the foremost authorities on the elements necessary to build health communities that will produce healthy equity for all. Join us as Dr. Iton discusses the links between policy and systems changes that ...
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Sometimes you can't see the signal for the trees - LivestreamOne of the challenges of modern communications is finding available spectrum. One of the newer Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands is centered at 60 GHz. The 60 GHz band is notable for its short reach due to the size of the wavelength and oxygen absorption. The short reach can ...
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SFBBO Birdy Hour Talk: Birding - Love at First Sight - LivestreamJoin SFBBO and Latino Outdoors to hear from Sebastian Casarez, an accomplished 17-year-old birder and bird educator from Texas. Learn how a love for birding changed his life and how that passion for birds grew into a birding movement throughout his community and the state of Texas. He will share his experiences being a ...
After Dark Online: Agree to a Degree - Understanding Uncertainty - LivestreamAs our nation prepares for a major election, After Dark takes a month-long look at some key factors that influence personal and collective decision making - and the effect these influences have on the democratic process.Uncertainty: it’s certainly uncomfortable. It’s also unavoidable in any election. How can we incorporate an ...
The artificial intelligence (AI) that we've seen in fiction bears little resemblance to the AI we have in the real world. Stanford PhD researcher Andrey Kurenkov will analyze the real-world meaning of AI, describe what researchers in AI actually do, and explore how impressive - or not - recent AI ...
We are taking a special camping trip to Earth’s moon!Join us on Facebook Live as we imagine extreme camping excursions at Camp Luna. What goes through the mind when leaving the comforts of home and dramatically changing our environment, traveling a great distance? Together, we can examine how to plan ...
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Saturday, 09/05/20
Understanding and Addressing Bias in Machine Learning - LivestreamMachine learning has long been a hot topic with tech and business professionals. It is used all over these days, and is designed to power technology products that influence human decision making in many domains of life. From healthcare to finance, education and the criminal justice system, machine learning algorithms ...
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Yerkes at 125 - A New Era for the Grand Dame of Astrophysics - LivestreamDan Koehler is a native of the Green Bay area in Wisconsin, having grown up on a dairy farm outside his hometown of Chilton. He has been an avid amateur astronomer since high school with a broad interest in deep sky objects, the solar system and “short-lived†phenomena like eclipses, meteor showers ...
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Astrophotography and Dark Sky Conservation - RescheduledMillions - billions! - of children grow up blind to the grandeur of a starry sky. As astronomers lead the fight against inspiration-stifling “light pollution,†our amateur cameras can preserve gorgeous nighttime skyscapes, and our collective activism can help preserve the starry night, itself.Sivani Babu, Hidden CompassWatch on the Mt ...
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Virtual Telescope Viewing - LivestreamJoin our resident astronomers on Facebook Live every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck!Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be ...
Erin Brockovich was vaulted into national recognition in 2000, after the eponymous movie starring Julia Roberts made her a water activism icon. Famous for her focus on contamination, Brockovich says there is a larger threat facing water’s very existence: climate change, and the impact it has on dwindling freshwater supplies, ...
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The Four Ways We Tell Machines What We Want, and How We Can Do Better - LivestreamIn our modern world, computers recommend movies they think we’ll like, remind us to order more laundry detergent, and answer our burning questions without breaking a sweat. But how do computer systems know how to do these things for us? It depends on how they were designed.Over two lectures, renowned ...
Society, Robots, and Us: Conversations We Need to Have - LivestreamFollowing our "COVID-19, Robots and Us" series, we're continuing the conversation about important robotics topics and socio-technical issues. We'll be inviting domain experts and interesting thinkers to discuss topics relating to robotics innovation, commercialization and inclusivity.Moderated by Andra Keay of Silicon Valley RoboticsRegister at weblink to obtain connection information.
Planning for future ocean conditions requires historical data to establish more informed ecological baselines. To date, this process is largely limited to instrument records and observations that begin around 1950. Here, we show how marine macroalgae specimens from herbaria repositories may document long-term ecosystem processes and extend historical information records ...
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The Inclusive Workforce: Strategies to Enhance the Future of Public Sector Work - LivestreamWhile a strong body of research has emerged on the ways emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), will disrupt private sector work, less attention has been given to understanding these effects on public sector work and workers. Yet these technologies are increasingly being deployed in the public sector to address ...
Speaker: Carlos Rinaldi, Univ. of FloridaSee weblink for connection instructions
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Experiment with Abseil Flags - LivestreamCommand-line interfaces are a good choice for enabling machine learning experiments. In Python, the argparse package is a common way to implement command-line arguments, but its naive use can lead to at least one anti-pattern that makes code hard to maintain and extend. Google’s Abseil Python package (as used in ...
