Steven Benner at the 2012 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting
By: JGI Steven Benner from the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution delivering the closing keynote at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 22, 2012 in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Global View of the Seasons (Interactive)
By measuring subtle differences in light that result from varying concentrations of plant life around the world, scientists are able to better understand Earth. These false-color images provided by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project provide visual representations of the concentrations of plant life in the oceans and on land. In this interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain, learn how the distribution of Earth's vegetation changes over the seasons.
How Hurricanes Form (Interactive)
Meteorologists have gone to great lengths to identify the atmospheric conditions that trigger hurricanes. The list of ingredients is fairly short: warm ocean temperatures, lots of moisture in the middle and upper atmosphere, and light winds in the upper atmosphere. In this animation from NASA, learn about the conditions necessary for the creation of a hurricane.
James Garfield's Presidency
President James Garfield was and outgoing and a well-read man, although he had a weakness in policy making. In this video clip, watch the events unfold as President James Garfield's involvement in civil service reforms leads to his assassination. (3:53)
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The Emergence of a Digital Money Ecosystem - Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD Visiting Lecturer, MIT Eng We are in the early stages of a very important transformation—the transition to a digital money ecosystem. This transformation is likely to be among the most exciting, important, and challenging initiatives the world will undertake in the coming decades. The transformation involves more than the transformation of money (cash, checks, credit and debit cards, etc.) from physical to digital objects that we will carry in our smart mobile devices. It en
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Management Information Systems for Supply Chain Management Where can you stand to get a good view of the supply chain? Nowhere. That's the problem. MIT and industry sponsors have launched the HI-Viz Supply Chain project. The goal is to automatically extract data from corporate data bases to draw board-ready pictures of the supply chain. These include both a left-to-right network flow diagram and a global map of the supply chain. Once these "vanilla" pictures have been created, we can then visually overlay various performance metrics such as cost buil
Multicore Software and Applications The move to multicore processors as our standard computing platform will force major changes in the way we design parallel software, and in particular in the way we design and use concurrent data structures.
Most of the data structures being designed and used in parallel software today are concurrent versions, either lock-based or lock-free, of the sequential data structures of our youth: list-based-sets, queues, stacks, deques, binary search trees, and heaps to name a few. Toda
March 2012 Presentation to Governor Patrick
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Working Smarter in a Digital Economy Over the last decade firms have been designing, building, and implementing digitized platforms. The effort has proved to be transformational—and enormously challenging. Now comes the really hard part. How do firms ensure that their platforms make them more efficient, more agile, and more innovative? Research at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research has found that top firms are working hard to get the right information into the hands of the right people so that decision mak
The Cyber Security Mess Despite more than 40 years of research into computer security, every day brings news about another sensitive computer system that has been penetrated by attackers. Although every attack is different, they have at their root common causes that are technical, economic, and societal. In this talk Dr. Simson Garfinkel, author of 14 books and hundreds of articles about computer security and information technology, discusses the barriers to improving security on the desktop and in the cloud, and wh
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she writes on the “subjective side” of people’s relationships with modern communication, especially computers. On May 2, 2012, Turkle offered her thoughts on the growth of the digital world and the changes it
Information Sciences Institute: 40 Years of Groundbreaking Research
Founded in 1972, USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has played a pivotal role in conceiving, designing and implementing the Internet and its predecessor, the Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) communication system known as ARPANET. The research center, part of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, currently has 350 researchers and support staff working at its headquarter facilities in Marina del Rey, as well as Arlington, Va
Catholic Mass - 5/6/2012 (Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic Center
Fr. Michael Martin, OFM, celebrant
http://catholic.duke.edu
Fifth Sunday of Easter, 9pm
Service begins @ 10:45
Homily begins @ 25:43
Scripture:
First Reading: Acts 9:26-31
Psalm 22: I Will Praise You, Lord (28)
Second Reading: 1 John 3:18-24
Gospel: John 15:1-8
Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994):
Processional Hymn: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (646)
Offertory Hymn: Unless a Grain of Wheat (697)
Communion Hymn: Without Seeing You (844)
Meditation: Seek Ye First
The Punctuated Equilibrium of Social Progress
UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group 19th Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment
The Punctuated Equilibrium of Social Progress
Joan Blades, Co-Founder and President of the Board of Directors of MomsRising.org, Co-Founder of MoveOn.org, and Co-Creator of Living Room Conversations
http://erg.berkeley.edu
Rock & Read with Larry Kirwan
The Missouri State University Public Affairs Conference kicked off with a "rockin" performance by Larry Kirwan, playwright, author, radio host and lead vocalist/guitarist for New York City-based Celtic rock band Black 47. Kirwan performed songs and read from his works, including his novel, "Rockin' in the Bronx."
New 'Smart' Garden at Duke
The new garden at Duke's Smart Home applies technologies for cultivating and landscaping. Learn more at http://smarthome.duke.edu.
Mini Cupcake Bouquet with the World's Premier Culinary College
Get the Recipe: http://www.ciaculinaryintelligence.com/2012/05/a-beautiful-spring-cupcake-bouquet-for-mothers-day.html
The Culinary Institute of America is the world's premier culinary college. Culinary school Chef-Instructor Melissa Walnock demonstrates how to prepare a Mini Cupcake Bouquet. For more information about our cooking school, please visit www.ciachef.edu.
Four Peaks: Hacking Edu
This May, Four Peaks powered by the MCDM, calls on us all to boldly re-imagine higher education, moving away from an industrialized, hierarchical model to a more nimble, collaborative one. How do we need to learn? What are we willing to pay for? What are the essential skills of a 21st century workforce? What are emerging trends are already disrupting the traditional model of lecture-based, degree programs? Watch the discussion that was taped live from HuskyFest at the University of Washingt
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