Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC...
"Prof. David Patterson - "Using Big D to Fight the Big C"-10
Analyzing cancer tumor genomes involving computer scientists from Berkeley, Intel, and Microsoft to help fight the war on cancer. This talk covers new and much faster and more accurate genetic analysis pipelines being developed at Berkeley and the technical, cost, and policy issues required to create a Million Cancer Genome Warehouse.
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CUMULATIVE IMPACTS AND CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | 2013 Symposium
MORE INFO: http://circle.berkeley.edu/kidsCimpacts.html
RELATED PLAYLIST: 2012 Symposium http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECBFF2D8E138A22D23
We have known for some time that regional air pollution exacerbates asthma. Now, Prof McConnell presents emerging evidence from the Southern California Children's Environmental Health Center http://hydra.usc.edu/cehc/ showing that the air pollution mixture near roadways from vehicles also causes childhood asthma. Regional and near‐roadway pollution exposures are significant cumulative risks.
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS of environmental factors and social stressors during early life may increase disease in children, hasten onset and increase severity of disease in adulthood, and contribute to health disparities. #kidsCimpacts
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
*Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment http://oehha.ca.gov/index.html
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