Events

Technology innovation has always been the engine that has enabled new space mission capabilities. For interplanetary space exploration, nowhere has this been more evident in […]

The Breakthrough Prize symposia will offer a day of inspiring and enlightening conversations that will shine a light on the science behind the Breakthrough Prizes. […]

Crowd-sourcing labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) are booming, because they enable rapid construction of complex work.ows that seamlessly mix human computation with computer automation. […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)

What’s everyone talking about? They’re talking about data! Whether you’re interested in finance, gaming, travel, security, education, health care, commerce, or science, data will play […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)

An interdisciplinary symposium, presented by the Berkeley Population Center, together with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Department of Demography […]

“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]

The genius of the pioneers of the Internet was to keep the network of links and routers – the “plumbing” – dumb and minimal, placing […]

A Panel of Local Innovators

With special guest Monica Lam. High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first “citizen reporters” as they roam the country reporting on social and […]

As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes […]

A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a softly-hued, ringed planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine […]

In this presentation, the first to be held in the newly renovated Social Science Matrix space, Scott McDonald, Adjunct Professor, Marketing at Columbia Business School […]

The essence of public health is the prevention of preventable suffering and the creation and promotion of a world in which all can truly thrive. […]

The View from the Top lecture series spotlights thought leaders in technology, industry and education, bringing them onto campus to share the latest developments and […]

Join Tom Steyer, advanced energy advocate, investor and philanthropist, for the 6th Annual Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy. Moderated by Governor […]

Come join us for an exciting and thought provoking discussion on the role Bay Area-based social enterprises play in developing economies.

Advanced driver assistance systems already help drivers reach their destinations safely and more comfortably. Future systems will evolve from driver assistance over highly automated vehicles […]

Personality traits form a key driver behind people’s behavior, cognitions, motivations and emotions; and thus assessing others’ personality is a basic social skill and a […]

High-throughput imaging technologies provide a pathway to deliver better health care solutions. This presentation introduces new approaches based on time-encoded single-pixel cameras, enabling a number […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

WHAT: “Universal Access to All Knowledge” presented by Mr. Brewster Kahle. Will we allow ourselves to re-invent our concept of libraries to expand and to […]

Current and former members of Congress and Bay Area technologists address the prospects for solving congressional dysfunction The Ash Center, the Center on Civility & […]

#Hack4Congress brings together political scientists, technologists, designers, lawyers, organizational psychologists, and lawmakers to foster new digital tools, policy proposals and other innovations to address the […]

Join us for the first FREE webinar of the 5th Annual 21st Century New Media Training Series, “Telling Stories That Matter: Visual Storytelling for Health” […]

Neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is an electrophysiological technique where electrical potentials are recorded from the […]

The BCNM is an interdisciplinary community that draws together artists, humanists, and technologists to effectively analyze and shape developments in new media. This Spring, we’re […]

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and writer who has twice been elected Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was previously […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group 21st Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment

The electric power grid will need to be dramatically different by 2050. The existing grid is centralized and hierarchical. It assumes generation can be accurately […]

Clinically viable and minimally invasive neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. To enable chronic and stable neural recording, we […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Our lands provide us food and resources in addition to acting as a carbon sink, making them one of the most important pieces of the […]

Executive education program for senior health leaders from around the world. Focus: globally-sourced solutions/innovations for health policy and management challenges. In a decade 480 leaders […]