Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile (2000-2006), is a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies for Fall 2006. Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of California, Berkeley is the locus of activity for a unique working community of Latin Americanist faculty, students and other research collaborators from the United States and Latin America. Through an extensive public program and opportunities for study and exchanges abroad, CLAS strives to increase understanding of Latin American peoples, cultures and politics, enhance the work of UC Berkeley's Latin Americanist community and build bridges to other...
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.
This course is a seminar on the role of law in the management of international environmental problems. The course will begin with a brief introduction to public international law as it relates to the environment and a discussion of what international environmental law means. Participants in the course will study a range of environmental issues, legal sources, and institutions.
Lytle Shaw's books of poetry include Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel (Shark, 1998), Cable Factory 20 (Atelos, 1999), and The Lobe Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University.
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Berkeley professor, Alan Auerbach discusses the San Francisco and Berkeley initiatives on the Nov 4, 2014 ballot.
Auerbach is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law and Director of the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at UC Berkeley
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner
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