Kazuo Inamori: A Conversation on Business Innovation and Philosophy (with English translation audio)
A lecture and conversation on business innovation and philosophy with Kazuo Inamori, founder and chairman emeritus of the Kyocera Corporation (originally Kyoto Ceramic Co.) and chairman of one of Japan's largest telecommunications companies, KDDI (originally DDI). This event was a part of the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies' 50th Anniversary program of events (http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/). Co-sponsored by: Center for Japanese Studies, Consul General of Japan, San Francisco, Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, and Haas School of Business.
Contents of the EIS - Evaluating NEPA: Other Information Based Strategies
Instructor Holly Doremus. This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/students/curricularprograms/envirolaw/index.html
In this 2-part training, participants will be exposed to the "power definition" of racism and will observe a racially diverse group of people reflecting on the meaning of the definition, and the efficacy of using the definition to address racism in institutions. A rationale will be explored for developing a full analysis of racism, including understanding its historic and legal roots and contemporary functioning.
This second segment focuses on dismantling racism and some of the concepts, strategies and tools that are needed to effectively address the problem of racism in institutions. Crossroads workshops and methodologies are explored, including the Analyzing and Understanding Racism Workshop and the development of Institutional Transformation Teams. A very brief overview of the rationale and organizing principles for Transformation Team Building as a structural intervention to institutional racism is presented, including development of the Team and strategic plan to dismantle institutional racism.
Computer Science C149, 001 - Fall 2014
Introduction to Embedded Systems - Edward A. Lee, Alberto Sangiovanni-vincentelli
Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Stanford R. Ovshinsky has been called "the modern world's most important energy visionary." His career has combined path-breaking scientific work, the creation of new industries and a deep commitment to "make a better world." His work on energy and the environment has particular significance for the Americas.
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/
UC Berkeley post-doc Lucy O'Brien explains how study of the fruit fly gut sheds light on the role stem cells play in adjusting the size of our intestines.
Full story at http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/27/intestinal-stem-cells-respond-to-food-by-supersizing-the-gut/.
Video by Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley media relations
The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future
Innovations in Energy Technologies -- The Role of ARPA-E
Arun Majumdar, Director, DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
For more information, visit http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/energy/symposium/philomathia2010
Deborah Aschheim, Hellman Visiting Artist, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
http://www.minervaberkeley.org/conferences/seeing-knowing-vision-knowledge-cognition-and-aesthetics/2014-speakers1/deborah-aschhiem/
From 2009-2011 I was Visiting Artist at the Memory and Aging Center (MAC) in the Department of Neurology at UCSF. The MAC is well known for research into visual creativity and the brain, particularly some startling findings of patients seeming to develop increased visual sensitivity and creative expression despite or possibly as a result of language deterioration seen in Frontotemporal Dementia. My initial proposal was to use my residency to make a connection between UCSF MAC clinical and research programs, and to repurpose experimental data into artworks for waiting areas in the MAC’s hospital, office and lab sites throughout San Francisco.
One of my Visiting Artist projects was a collaboration with musician Lisa Mezzacappa and Soprano/Neuroscientist Indre Viskontas, which involved scanning our own brains to compare our subjective experience with memory and cognition to what the machines could show us. For Seeing/Knowing, I will premiere the final version of two four-channel videos we created that blend hand drawn animation, live footage, experimental data from EEG (Electroencephalography) and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and original music into a new artwork. I will also share my experiences working with researchers and clinicians studying memory and cognition at UCSF and University of Pittsburgh between 2006-2012.
2014 Conference on Neuroesthetics - Seeing Knowing: Vision, Knowledge, Cognition, and Aesthetics
http://www.minervaberkeley.org
Co-sponsored by the School of Optometry and Vision Science Program, University of California Berkeley