Talks of BEARS 2011 (Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium)
This year's focus is the "Berkeley View of bringing intelligence to tomorrow's client/cloud computing platform" in four coordinated and integrated talks on Big Data (Ion Stoica), and Natural Language Processing (Dan Klein), Augmenting Reality via Client/Cloud Platforms (Avideh Zakhor), and Sensor Swarms (Kris Pister and Jan Rabaey). http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/BEARS/
Graduate student Christian Braudrick and Professor William Dietrich display the meandering stream they created in a lab, and how their study will be applied to environmental restoration projects on earth, as well as studies of the geography of Mars.
2:48 min. video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations
Full press release at: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/05_meanders.shtml
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau visits Lincoln High School in San Jose, California to encourage students to go to college and to congratulate seniors who are eligible to attend University of California and Cal State University campuses.
NewsCenter.Berkeley.edu
A general discussion of the fundamental problem of authenticity and dating in Chinese painting studies, using some examples from the lectures but also others that exemplify the methods and criteria by which good judgments can be made. My arguments of course emphasize the visual approach over the verbal—the reading of inscriptions and seals, etc.—important as those also are.