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.
The Machine - Kim Keeton (HP)
40 Years of Patterson Symposium. Saturday, May 7, 2016. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/XRG/patterson2016/
Presented by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/
13th Annual Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability
Panel 1: What Ails California
Joel Fox, former president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. & editor of Fox and Hounds Daily
James P. Mayer, Executive Director, California Forward
Mark Paul, Senior Scholar, New America Foundation, and author of California 2.0: How the Golden State Got Broken and How We Can Fix It
Peter Schrag, author, Paradise Lost: Californias Experience, Americas Future
Moderator: Steve Weiner, Co-Founder, Common Sense California, and Chairman of the Board, Endowment for
California Leadership
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This workshop will examine an innovative project, Inua Ubuntu ("To lift up; I am, because we are") aimed at reducing disproportionality rates for African American male children served in Allegheny County's (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Department of Human Services, Office of Children, Youth and Families - ACCYF). The goal of Inua Ubuntu is to provide culturally-based intervention and child protective services aimed at keeping African American male children safely in their own homes with their families and to reduce the rate of African American males requiring out of home placement. Inua Ubuntu proposed that linking these children to robust culturally- centered community services, rather than making them child welfare cases, can improve outcomes and reduce the number of youths removed from their homes. First year results support that claim. Ninety percent of all children served remained in their own homes requiring no further child protective services involvement. Furthermore, appreciable gains were made in child safety, permanency, well-being and self efficacy.
Researchers at UC Berkeley are doing a wide range of studies exploring positive emotions and happiness. Experiments on the brain, nervous system, hormones, heart, and social interaction are indicating that human nature and the survival of the species rely much more on compassion, gratitude, trust, and altruism than previously thought. The theory of "survival of the fittest" is giving way to "survival of the kindest." Psychologists Dacher Keltner, Rudy Mendoza-Denton, and sociologists Rob Willer and Christina Carter discuss their work and its implications for society.
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations (7:40 min.)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/11/09_happiness_video.shtml
The first panel discussed and showcased methodologies, philosophies and practices of research justice. Moderator: Bianca Suarez (UC Berkeley), featuring Shamia Sandles (Project EAT), Emily Marquez (Pesticide Action Network), Dawn Phillips (Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC)), and Mary Louise Frampton (UC Berkeley School of Law).