Research and Data Analysis in Psychology

"Planning, Policy and Politics" Alain C Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Emeritus Professor of Public and Private Management, Stanford University In his 500th interview, Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Stanford Professor Alain Enthoven for a discussion of public service and policy analysis. Recalling his tenure in the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Kennedy administration, Enthoven describes the efforts to control military expenditures by using systems analysis to consider together weapons acquisition, budgeting, strategy, and national interest. He describes the resistance within the military and Congress, and he reflects on the lessons he learned from this experience. After recalling the circumstances that led to his focus on healthcare, Enthoven analyzes the evolution of the American health care system, the perverse incentives responsible for spiraling costs that are bankrupting the country, and the constraints on changing the system. Comparing fee for service to prepaid group practice, he criticizes the Obama health care legislation and explains what is needed for real change. Finally, Enthoven compares his work in the two areas of policy--health care and defense--and reflects on the challenges of changing systems in the face of entrenched interest groups. http://conversations.berkeley.edu/

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.

eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation