A conversation about cloud computing between professors Armando Fox, Anthony Joseph, Randy Katz, and David Patterson. For more information see: http://abovetheclouds.cs.berkeley.edu.
Full Story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/12/15/bangalore-water-project/
Many of the 9.9 million people in Bangalore, India, never know when they’ll turn on the tap and find water flowing. Water is scarce and rationed. Each household gets about 4.5 hours of running water every other day — but when, and if, the water runs can be unpredictable. While high-income households can afford tanks that automatically turn on when the water does, low-income households cannot, meaning that women can devote hours on a weekly basis to waiting for and storing water.
UC Berkeley graduate student Christopher Hyun spent his summer working on a research project examining how the people of Bangalore can get more reliable and timely information about when and how long they’ll get water each day. He’ll be returning to Bangalore during the winter break to continue the work.
Video produced by Christopher Hyun, Roxanne Makasdjian, and Phil Ebiner
http://engineering.berkeley.edu/2011/02/411-waters-next-drop
http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/
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Honoring graduates in Development Studies, International and Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, and Rotary World Peace Fellows. Credits: Sponsor:International and Area Studies Department
Introductory Remarks (Bob Levenson, UC Berkeley); "Development of the Ability to Cognitively Control Emotion Across the Life Span" (Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University)
"One-Step Conversion of Sugar to Drop-In Renewable Fuels and Chemicals"
Stephen Del Cardayre, vice president for research and development at LS9, the renewable fuel company in South San Francisco, is a specialist on the engineering of whole-cell biocatalysts.
Energy Biosciences Institute
http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/