Nova Spivack is a serial entrepreneur and currently CEO of Bottlenose, a big data analytics company focused on real-time intelligence. Nova is known as a technology futurist and is one of the leading voices on the next generation of search, social media and the Web.
History 162A, 001 - Fall 2014
Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 - David Wetzel
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Technical Sales Assistants at U.C. Berkeley's Campus Computer Store, The Scholar's Workstation explain the Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0) and what it means to computer users.
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When Vice President Joe Biden dropped by UC San Francisco on Saturday for a wide-ranging discussion of the current state of cancer research, UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna was on hand to emphasize the need to fund basic research as well as clinical research.
Using the gene-editing tool she discovered, CRISPR-Cas9, as an example, Doudna plugged the important role of basic biological research in any effort to understand the drivers of cancer and discover possible new therapies for the disease.
“I just would love to see the cancer moonshot continue to support fundamental research that leads to breakthroughs that are going to be critical to address this mission,” she told Biden.
Biden referenced their earlier meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, where the vice president rolled out plans by the Obama administration to invest $1 billion in this national initiative to eliminate cancer.
“You sold me on that at Davos,” he said.
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