Realizing the Vision of a High Speed Rail System in California
"A Futures Vision of HSR and Smart Growth"
Peter Calthrope
http://www.calthorpe.com/peter-calthorpe
Session 3 of "The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access".
Moderator: Paul Duguid;
Panelists:
Dan Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Book Search;
Dan Greenstein, Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Programs and Coordination, UC Office of the President;
Mark Liberman, Trustee Professor, University of Pennsylvania;
Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information;
Geoffrey Nunberg, Adjunct Professor of Information, UC Berkeley.
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Each year Student Life Advising Services (SLAS) honors a select number of Educational Opportunity Program/SLAS-sponsored students with the Student Life Achievement Awards. These awards recognize those students who have worked to achieve academic excellence and who have contributed exemplary community service on campus and/or in the surrounding community. All recipients receive an honorarium of $200 and a certificate of achievement. The Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Student Life Achievement Award of $500 is presented to the most outstanding student.
"Technology, Culture, and Political Change"
Ken Goldberg, Professor of Engineering, University of California,Berkeley
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Berkeley's Ken Goldberg for a conversation on his research as a professor of engineering and his recent projects as an artist. Starting with a discussion of robotics in surgery and cancer therapy, Goldberg then moves to an analysis of their application in disasters and on the battlefield. Describing several of his recent art projects, Goldberg then discusses complementarities with his engineering research. Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Goldberg reflects on the philosophical implications of 'telepresence.' The conversation then moves to a focus on military drones, wiki-leaks, and the problem of bringing ethics to a world in which the rapid introduction of technology changes the nature of war, undermines secrecy, and challenges the legitimacy of the state.
http://conversations.berkeley.edu
The Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0) took place on May 20-22, 2006, at the University of California, Berkeley. The conference brought together a diverse group of participants from a variety of disciplines, including some of the world's leaders in biological engineering, biochemistry, quantitative biology, biophysics, molecular and cellular biology, bioethics, policy and governance, and the biotech industry. A collaborative effort of Berkeley Lab, MIT, UC Berkeley, and UCSF, the conference sought to promote and guide the further, constructive development of the field. SB2.0 began with two days of plenary talks and discussions focused on five research areas: energy,...