"Nuclear Power and the Challenges of Global Climate Change and Nuclear Proliferation" Jacques Bouchard, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Jacques Bouchard, Special Adviser to the Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission, for a discussion of French energy policy and its reliance on nuclear power. Drawing on the French experience, he argues for the utility of nuclear power in dealing with global warming. Dr. Bouchard also explains the role of the nuclear engineer in responding to the technical needs generated by new challenges in design and safety, and he discusses his work in preparing the French nuclear forces for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Dr. Bouchard also analyzes how nuclear engineering working with an effective international regime can address the problem of nuclear proliferation in cases such as Iran. Recorded February 27, 2009 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Instructor Brian Harvey Spring 2008 Introduction to programming and computer science. This course exposes students to techniques of abstraction at several levels: (a) within a programming language, using higher-order functions, manifest types, data-directed programming, and message-passing; (b) between programming languages, using functional and rule-based languages as examples. It also relates these techniques to the practical problems of implementation of languages and algorithms on a von Neumann machine. There are several significant programming projects, programmed in a dialect of the LISP language.

UC Berkeley student Clint Terrell served time in some of California's toughest penal institutions for residential burglaries and auto theft. His prison time included long-term solitary confinement, once for 18 months in Tehachapi State Prison's Security House Unit. A successful 2011 class-action suit on behalf of Pelican Bay inmates argued that sustained solitary confinement is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. As a result, one-third of the state's 3,000 prisoners relegated to isolation are gradually being transitioned into the general prison population. UC Berkeley psychology professor, Dacher Keltner, served as an expert witness in the trial, explaining how humans learn nurturing, trust, compassion, and cooperation through the sense of touch. His research shows how social isolation may trigger or exacerbate mental illness, causing some to withdraw so deeply that they suffer a form of social death. Full Story: http://news.berkeley.edu/ Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley ...

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