A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Series, featuring Anthony Levandowski, Project Lead for Google Driverless Cars
Anthony Levandowski, a Cal grad (IEOR Bachelors and Masters degrees), is consistently recognized as an entrepreneur and innovator. While still in graduate school, he was featured in the Berkeley News as having "a rare combination of engineering brains and business acumen that once upon a time would have had venture capitalists speed-dialing his cell phone." After graduating, one of Anthony's projects was building "Ghostrider", a robot motorcycle that drives itself. He worked on Ghostrider for the DARPA Grand Challenge, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense. The motorcycle is now featured in the Smithsonian Museum of American history in Washington DC.
Today, Andrew is the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project. According to Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder "you can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this."
Computer Science C149, 001 - Fall 2014
Introduction to Embedded Systems - Edward A. Lee, Alberto Sangiovanni-vincentelli
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"Dignity, Human Rights, and Torture"
Jeremy Waldron
University Professor, New York University School of Law
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes legal philosopher Jeremy Waldron for a discussion of the legal concept of dignity, it origins in law and morality and its emergence as a foundation for human rights. In the conversation, Professor Waldron also talks about the importance of preserving liberal values in the fight against terrorism, and, in this context, he criticizes the torture memos for their assault on human dignity.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
Surreal Politics: How Anxiety About Race, Gender, and Inequality Is Shaping the 2016 Presidential Campaign
This stimulating panel discussion features Henry E. Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Jonathan Stein M.P.P., J.D. ’13, former UC Student Regent and civil rights attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus; and Goldman School Professors Sarah Anzia, political scientist, and Jack Glaser, social psychologist. Maria Echaveste J.D. ’80, Policy and Program Director at Berkeley Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, moderates.
The CALIFORNIA Live! lecture series brings innovative ideas emanating from UC Berkeley and featured in California magazine to venues near you. The series explores everything from politics to diversity; from technology to popular culture. Come hear Berkeley’s finest minds discuss today’s important issues, then join the conversation.
Sponsored by the Cal Alumni Association and the Goldman School of Public Policy
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/
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