Computer Science 162, 001 - Spring 2015 Operating Systems and System Programming - John Kubiatowicz Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Introduction: Civil Enforcement
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
Biology 1B, 001 - Fall 2014
General Biology - Alan Shabel, John P. Huelsenbeck, David D Ackerly
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University of California, Berkeley, scientists released a free Android app that taps a smartphone’s ability to record ground shaking from an earthquake, with the goal of creating a worldwide seismic detection network that could eventually warn users of impending jolts from nearby quakes.
For the full MyShake story, visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/02/12/new-app-turns-smartphones-into-worldwide-seismic-network/
Update on MyShake App:
http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/14/quake-detection-app-captured-nearly-400-temblors-worldwide/
The app, called MyShake, is available to the public from the Google Play Store and runs in the background with little power, so that a phone’s onboard accelerometers can record local shaking any time of the day or night. For now, the app only collects information from the accelerometers, analyzes it and, if it fits the vibrational profile of a quake, relays it and the phone’s GPS coordinates to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for analysis.
Once enough people are using it and the bugs are worked out, however, UC Berkeley seismologists plan to use the data to warn people miles from ground zero that shaking is rumbling their way. An iPhone app is also planned.
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