2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium in Life Sciences
Session 1:
How the Brain Operates: Development and Disease
Chair:
Ehud Isacoff (UC Berkeley)
Featuring talks by:
1. Cornelia Bargmann (The Rockefeller University). Genes, Experience, and Neurons: How Fixed Circuits Give Rise to Flexible Behaviors.
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Statistics 131A, 001 - Spring 2015
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Life Scientists - Fletcher H Ibser
Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
The Townsend Center for the Humanities is excited to announce the first lunch forum in the spring series on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship. Please join the conversation about Google Book Search next Monday with Pamela Samuelson. Joint professor at Berkeley's School of Law and School of Information, as well as director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Samuelson offers a critical viewpoint about the consequences of Google Books for academic researchers and libraries:
"The proposed settlement of the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit which charged Google with copyright infringement for scanning books from major research libraries would bring about much greater access to books. However, there are several reasons to be deeply worried about the settlement because of inadequate privacy protections, risks of price-gouging for institutional subscriptions, and antitrust problems. Beyond this, serious questions exist about whether a complex transformation of the market for digital books such as that envisioned in the proposed settlement can be achieved through a class action lawsuit when it is deeply legislative in nature."
This event was sponsored by School of Information and Townsend Center for the Humanities
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...