Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs III
Although these three speakers travel in quite disparate worlds -- natural language processing, mechanics of tiny organisms, and violent cosmic events -- they convey a comparably infectious enthusiasm for their research.
In the early days of artificial intelligence, “people had the naïve idea that if you took a computer, and fe
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The thematic focus of this unit is people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the world they live in. You use audio and text to practise German language skills while also enhancing your cultural understanding.
Annual North America Surface Temperature Anomaly: 1950 through 1998
Global surface temperatures in 1998 set a new record for the period of instrumental measurements, report researchers at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who analyze data collected from several thousand meteorological stations around the world. This visualization shows surface temperature anomalies from 1950 through November, 1998. The 1998 warmth was associated partly with a strong El Nino that warmed the air over the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in the first half of the year and i
Familair: Re-Designing the Airline User Experience
Course: "Introduction to Interaction Design"
Project: Four of four final presentation projects (CCA undergraduate)
Term: Spring 2011
Instructor: Kristian Simsarian
Description: Four groups of students redesigned the user experience for the fictitious airline, Familair.
They presented to judges from Smart Design, HOT Studio, Google, and IDEO. Students worked one on one with design coaches from interaction design companies and other start-ups to create this inspired project.
Lecture 7B: Late Northern Song Landscape and Guo Xi
This lecture is devoted to the late Northern Song master Guo Xi, the last of the great masters of monumental landscape, beginning with his essay on painting landscape, continuing with a prolonged exploration of his masterwork Early Spring, and ending with a consideration
Habilidades de conversação 1: Corrigindo frases mal expressadas Authors@Google: Rainn Wilson in Mountain View Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa, Banquet Speech Berry Pomeroy Castle J900111 BERRY POMEROY CASTLE, Devon. Reconstruction drawing by Terry Ball (English Heritage Graphics Team) showing the castle as it might of looked in the early 17th century, showing the north range and loggia. Frederika, Countess of Mansfield K070050 KENWOOD HOUSE, London. "Frederika, Countess of Mansfield" attributed to George SAUNDERS (1774-1846). After treatment. Portrait of John Hampden K070057 KENWOOD HOUSE, SUFFOLK COLLECTION, London. "Portrait of John Hampden", parliamentarian (1595-1643) in the style of William DOBSON (1611-46). After treatment. Maria Constantina Trevor Countess of Suffolk K070072 KENWOOD HOUSE, SUFFOLK COLLECTION, London. "Maria Constantina Trevor Countess of Suffolk" attributed to Catherine READ (1723-78). After treatment. 3.6.5 Self-help groups - revising with others Provide planted area care 1 Improving your information technology skills This Key Skill Assessment Unit offers an opportunity for you to select and prepare work that demonstrates your key skills in the area of information technology. This unit provides you with advice and information on how to go about presenting your key skills work as a portfolio. In presenting work that demonstrates your key skills you are taking the initiative to show that you can develop and improve a particular set of skills, and are able to use your skills more generally in you Next steps Open University Courses Mental Health: Dementia A poem describing a person
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Rainn Wilson spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on January 6, 2011 about his book SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions. Rainn is in conversation with Jesse Nichols.
About the book:
Somewhere over the course of history, chewing on Life's Big Questions lost its cool factor. Fortunately for mankind, Rainn Wilson (best known for playing Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office) and a bunch of his friends are on a mission to change that.
Based on the wildly successful website http://www.soulpancake
In 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature and in the video, he presents his banquet speech at the 2010 Nobel Banquet. He is a storyteller and comments on how fiction turns into life. Find out more about Vargas Llosa: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/vargas_llosa-docu.html
Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.
This unit focuses on the care of planted areas including
weed control, watering plants, fertilising plants and the contol of pests and
diseases. Topic areas include: weeds and their characteristics, tools and methods
used for removing and controlling weeds, processing and disposing of weeds, tidying
up the worksite, plant water needs, categorising plants according to their water
demand, water stress, watering methods and devices, plant nutrients, fertiliser
formulations,
The internet is a fantastic source of information for any student, but how do you evaluate the information each site provides? This unit will help you assess the benefits of information technology, providing guidance on the protocols for using email, online conferencing and real time chat as methods of communication.
The internet is a fantastic source of information for any student, but how do you evaluate the information each site provides? This unit will help you assess the benefits of information technology, providing guidance on the protocols for using email, online conferencing and real time chat as methods of communication.
Dementia is one of the biggest health problems facing developed and developing countries. In the UK 700,000 people have dementia, with one new case every 3 minutes, a figure that is forecast to double within a generation. Currently, 42% of the UK population, know a close friend or family member with the condition and its financial costs alone, of over £17billion per year, are more than cancer; heart disease and stroke combined.
A resource for the teaching of Irish.
