UC Berkeley professor and 2013 Nobel Prize winner, Randy Schekman, gives his thoughts on the value of public education, on teaching, and on the practice of basic science. A professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Schekman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in revealing the machinery that regulates the transport and secretion of proteins in our cells. He shares the prize with James E. Rothman of Yale University and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University. Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian For full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/10/07/randy-schekman-awarded-2013-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine/ http://www.berkeley.edu https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley

Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC...