History 162A, 001 - Fall 2014 Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 - David Wetzel Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Cognitive Science C102, 001 - Fall 2014
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness - John F. Kihlstrom
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Dr. TODD WHITEHEAD of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment at the University of California Berkeley shows that dust from houses can be used to measure chemicals that children are exposed to at home, particularly PAHs, PCBs, PBDEs, and tobacco smoke constituents. He shows that measurements taken several years after a child is born are useful to estimate earlier exposure.
This was part of a symposium organized by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of Cal/EPA http://oehha.ca.gov/index.html, the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at UCSF http://coeh.berkeley.edu/ucpehsu, and the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia at the University of California Berkeley http://circle.berkeley.edu. Research funding is from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Presentations do not represent the views of these agencies.
In 2005, Lenovo, China's leading computer manufacturer, purchased IBM PC for $1.75 billion and is currently the world's fourth-largest computer company by sales. The acquisition marked China's entry into the realm of multinational firms with a global presence. LIU Chuanzhi, Chairman and Founder of Lenovo and one of Business Week's "Top 40 Most Powerful People in China" (2009), will visit campus to discuss Lenovo's globalization through this acquisition, the challenges it posed and Lenovo's solutions. Liu will also share his vision for Lenovo moving forward. Most recently, Liu was one of four Chinese entrepreneurs who accompanied Chinese President Hu Jintao during his recent visit to the United States.
Sponsor: East Asian Studies, Institute of (IEAS) http://ieas.berkeley.edu
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UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich are delighted to announce the launch of Opencast Matterhorn, an international open source software project designed to ease the recording, processing and distribution of academic content for institutions around the world. Using a communal Webcasting platform, educational technology experts and programmers from 13 partner institutions are developing a system to improve automated video and audio production for course lectures, events and other forms of online knowledge-sharing. Opencast Matterhorn is funded by grants totalling $1.5 million from the William & Flora Hewlett and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics presents a lecture by Nobel Laureate and Berkeley grad, David Gross, of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He will discuss "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics."
The lecture is part of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics Opening Symposium on October 19 and 20.