One of America's premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the military's treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security matters and is the author of many books. The 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote...
Closing Panel on How to Face the Challenge of RPS: Marco Ventura-U of Sienna, Olivier Roy-RSCAS, Naomi Seidman-CJS/GTU, Ebrahim Moosa-Duke, Sr. Marianne Farina-DSPT/GTU, Imam Faheem Shuaibe-Masjidul Waritheen http://rps.berkeley.edu/
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CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Instructor Brian Harvey
Spring 2008
Introduction to programming and computer science. This course exposes students to techniques of abstraction at several levels: (a) within a programming language, using higher-order functions, manifest types, data-directed programming, and message-passing; (b) between programming languages, using functional and rule-based languages as examples. It also relates these techniques to the practical problems of implementation of languages and algorithms on a von Neumann machine. There are several significant programming projects, programmed in a dialect of the LISP language.
The Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation
Spring 2012: The U.S. Farm Bill: What's at Stake?
Michael Pollan, Karen Ross, Ken Cook, Ken Hecht, and Gordon Rausser discuss the upcoming renewal of the 2012 US Farm Bill - the single most important piece of legislation determining what Americans eat.