Many recent PARC Forum presentations are available below. Each title link includes an abstract and speaker bio, as well as streaming video and downloadable audio podcasts. Feeds available: 
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| SolFocus: Solar Start-up from Garage to Market via PARC |
Ty Jagerson, VP Corporate Development, SolFocus |
June 19, 2008 |
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| Powerset: Deep natural language processing for consumer search |
Ronald M. Kaplan, Powerset |
June 5, 2008 |
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| The Magitti Activity-Aware Leisure Guide: Opportunity Discovery, Innovation and New Technology Platform Development at PARC
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Victoria Bellotti and Bo Begole, PARC |
May 29, 2008 |
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| MEMS based ultrasonic transducers in medical imaging, therapy and sensing |
B. T. Khuri-Yakub, Stanford University |
May 22, 2008 |
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| The Near-Term Approach to the Artificial Pancreas |
Geoffrey McGarraugh, TheraSense Inc./Abbott Diabetes Care |
May 15, 2008 |
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| Combining X-ray, Fragment Screening and Chemi-Informatics to Discover New Drugs |
Duncan McRee, Ph.D., President, ActiveSight |
May 8, 2008 |
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| Enhancing the Social Web through Augmented Social Cognition research |
Ed Chi, PARC Augmented Social Cognition group |
May 1, 2008 |
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| Freebase: An Open Database of the World's Information |
John Giannandrea, Metaweb Technologies |
April 17, 2008 |
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| FREE! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business |
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine & Author, The Long Tail |
March 27, 2008 |
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| Open Education: Stepping into New Collaborative Processes |
Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., President and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) |
March 20, 2008 |
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| Making del.cio.us Tastier |
Bernard Kerr and Joshua Schachter, Yahoo! Inc |
March 13, 2008 |
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| Innovation Strategies in a Global Economy |
Sophie Vandebroek, Chief Technology Officer, Xerox Corporation; President, Xerox Innovation Group |
March 6, 2008 |
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| Beyond Web 2.0: You can’t divide by zero – measuring the effectiveness of free |
Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO, KDPaine & Partners; Publisher, The Measurement Standard |
February 28, 2008 |
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| Enterprise 2.0: The State of an Art |
Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business School |
February 21, 2008 |
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| Kiva.org: a transparent, web-based microfinance system |
Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org |
February 7, 2008 |
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| Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization |
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, IBM, Visual Communication Lab |
January 31, 2008 |
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| Facebook applications, mass persuasion, & world peace |
BJ Fogg & colleagues, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University |
January 24, 2008 |
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| Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web |
Bernardo A. Huberman, HP Labs |
January 10, 2008 |
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| By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 |
Guy Kawasaki, Truemors and Garage Technology Ventures |
December 13, 2007 |
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| Strategies for Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies |
Charlene Li, Forrester |
December 6, 2007 |
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| StumbleUpon: A Web Discovery System |
Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Product Officer |
November 29, 2007 |
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| Made of People |
Ross Mayfield, CEO and Co-Founder of Socialtext |
November 15, 2007 |
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| Reinventing the Media Businesses
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John Warnock, Adobe Systems, Inc. |
November 1, 2007 |
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| Inventing the Ink Jet Printer |
Edmond L. Kyser |
October 25, 2007 |
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| Know the Bread You Break: Kneading the Issues of Sustainable Food Choices
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Jesse Ziff Cool, Flea Street Cafe/Cool Cafe/ JZCool Eatery |
October 11, 2007 |
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| Electronics sustainability challenge: Miles to go before we sleep… |
Ted Smith, Founder, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and International Campaign for Responsible Technology |
Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
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| Testing Einstein at the Limits |
William J. Bencze, Sr. Research Engineer and Program Manager Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University |
September 13, 2007 |
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| Recent Developments in Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots |
Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania |
August 23, 2007 |
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| Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): The Fuss and the Facts |
Dr. Sanjay Sarma, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and CTO of OAT Systems |
August 9, 2007 |
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| You Are What You Make |
Dale Dougherty, Editor and Publisher of Make and Craft magazines |
August 2, 2007 |
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| Sustainable Product Design |
Terry Swack, Founder & CEO, Clean Culture |
July 26, 2007 |
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| Putting the Turing into Manufacturing: Recent Developments in the Science of Automation
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Ken Goldberg, University of California Berkeley |
July 19, 2007 |
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| Neural representation of expected value |
Brian Knutson, Stanford University |
July 12, 2007 |
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| Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Mysteries of the Universe |
Patricia Burchat, Stanford University |
June 28, 2007 |
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| The Social Atom: Physics and Human Affairs |
Mark Buchanan, Associate Editor Complexus |
June 7, 2007 |
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| Synthetic biology in the pursuit of low-cost, effective, anti-malarial drugs |
Jay D. Keasling, University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
May 24, 2007 |
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| From Smart Dust to Reliable Networks |
Kris Pister, University California Berkeley and Dust Networks |
May 17, 2007 |
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| The Bio in Biofuels |
Scott D. Power, PhD, Danisco Genencor |
May 10, 2007 |
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| Fuels and Chemicals from Renewable Resources: An Industrial Renaissance? |
Dr. Douglas C. Cameron, Khosla Ventures |
May 3, 2007 |
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| Games: The Killer App for Pen Computing? |
Eric Saund, PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) |
April 26, 2007 |
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| Electric Vehicles and the Future of Transportation Energy Use – Tesla Motors Perspective |
JB Straubel, Tesla Motors |
April 19, 2007 |
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| Thinking big: Carbon capture and sequestration as a global approach to greenhouse gas emission reduction |
Dr. S. Julio Friedmann, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
April 12, 2007 |
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| Forensic Science and Weapons of Mass Destruction |
John G. Reynolds, Director, Forensic Science Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
April 5, 2007 |
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| Optical Interference Special Effect Pigments: From Banknote Security to Nail Polish. |
Dr. Alberto Argoitia, Flex Products Division of JDSU |
March 29, 2007 |
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| Beer: The Best Beverage in the World |
Charlie Bamforth, Ph.D., D.Sc., University of California, Davis |
March 22, 2007 |
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| How to Reduce Global Warming and Make Humans Omnipresent Using Virtual Worlds |
David Rolston, PhD; Chairman and CEO, Forterra, Inc. |
March 15, 2007 |
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| Transforming R&D To Win In Global Innovation Networks |
Navi Radjou, Vice President, Forrester Research |
March 1, 2007 |
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| The quality of information: High-tech supply and low-tech command |
Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley |
February 22, 2007 |
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| Decision-making from Karl Marx to YouTube: How to Think About Strategic Dilemmas |
Phil Hood, Writer, Consultant, and Publisher |
February 8, 2007 |
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| Managing Office Buildings for the 21st Century |
George Denise, CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA, General Manager, Cushman & Wakefield |
February 1, 2007 |
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| The Promise of Concentrators in the World of Photovoltaics |
Steve Horne, VP Operations and Chief Scientist, SolFocus, Inc. |
January 25, 2007 |
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| Got Game?
Exploring the contexts of collaborative experience, social awareness, and gameplay. |
Tina Blaine, Carnegie-Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center |
January 18, 2007 |
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| Moving Research into the Marketplace |
Katharine Ku, Stanford University |
January 11, 2007 |
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| The Archimedes Codex: the Many Layers of the World's Greatest Palimpsest |
Reviel Netz, Stanford University |
December 14, 2006 |
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| Fast Ignition: An Alternative Route to Inertial Confinement Fusion |
Scott C. Wilks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
December 7, 2006 |
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| Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME): A Next Frontier in Education, Innovation and Economic Growth |
Jim Spohrer, Director, Almaden Services Research |
November 16, 2006 |
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| The Berkeley View: A New Framework and a New Platform for Parallel Research |
David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley |
November 9, 2006 |
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| The Paradox of Political Language |
Geoffrey Nunberg, University of California, Berkeley |
November 2, 2006 |
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| The Green Energy Revolution |
Roland N. Horne, Stanford University |
October 26, 2006 |
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| Uncertainty in an unknown world |
Stuart Russell, University of California Berkeley |
October 19, 2006 |
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| Venture Capital's Homage to the Alchemy of PARC |
Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital |
October 12, 2006 |
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| Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI |
Peter Norvig, Google |
October 5, 2006 |
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| Exploratorium Science Exhibits from Birth to Death |
Paul Doherty, Exploratorium Teacher Institute |
September 28, 2006 |
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| The Role of Digital Electronics in Providing A Window into the World of Top Marine Predators |
Daniel Costa, University of California at Santa Cruz |
September 21, 2006 |
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| Plastic Electronics and Optoelectronics |
Professor Alan Heeger, University of California, Santa Barbara |
September 1, 2006 |
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| The World Year of Physics, Einstein, Nanoscience, and International Competition |
Marvin L. Cohen, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
August 24, 2006 |
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| The Whys and Hows of Ocean Exploration |
Marcia McNutt, President and CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
August 17, 2006 |
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| When the Earth Speaks: Understanding Pre-Earthquake Signals |
Friedemann Freund, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center and Principal Investigator, SETI Institute |
August 10, 2006 |
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| Biology's Brave New World: Straight talk about stem cells |
Christopher Thomas Scott, Stanford University |
Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
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| The Blurring Boundaries of Play: Labor, Genocide, and Addiction |
Nick Yee, Stanford University |
July 20, 2006 |
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| Brain Plasticity Bases of Human Ability, Disability, and Recovery |
Michael M. Merzenich, PhD, Francis Sooy Professor, Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, UCSF and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science Corporation |
July 13, 2006 |
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| The Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trials of Hormones, Diet and Calcium/Vitamin D for the Major Diseases of Aging in Women |
Marcia Stefanick, Chair of the WHI Steering Committee and Principal Investigator of the Stanford WHI clinical center |
June 22, 2006 |
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| Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Integrative Biology |
Atul Butte, Stanford University School of Medicine |
June 15, 2006 |
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| The $100 laptop: why it can and should be done |
Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop per Child |
June 1, 2006 |
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| Health care, IT, and why your doc may be stuck in the 90s....the 1890s |
Matthew Holt, Health care strategist and Author, The Health Care Blog |
May 25, 2006 |
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| Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Tales of Microsoft in China |
Robert Buderi, Research Fellow in MIT’s Center for International Studies and Gregory T. Huang, Features Editor at New Scientist Magazine |
May 11, 2006 |
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| Nanotechnology: New Horizons for Solar Power |
Ilan Gur, University of California, Berkeley |
May 4, 2006 |
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| Migrating Legacy Software to New Technologies |
Carlos Araya, ArtinSoft Corp. |
April 27, 2006 |
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| Benetech - Silicon Valley’s Deliberately Nonprofit Tech Company |
James Fruchterman, Founder and CEO of Benetech |
April 20, 2006 |
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| Solar PV: The Path From Niche to Mainstream Supplier of Clean Energy |
Dr. Richard Swanson, President and CTO of SunPower |
April 13, 2006 |
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| Adventure of a Lifetime |
Chuck Hawley, West Marine |
April 6, 2006 |
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| CPUC’s Solar Energy Program |
Commissioner Dian M. Grueneich, California Public Utilities Commission |
March 30, 2006 |
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| Architecture Support for Parallel Programming |
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University |
March 23, 2006 |
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| Software and the Concurrency Revolution |
Herb Sutter, Microsoft |
March 15, 2006 |
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| The new paradigm of Multicore processors: Changing the focus from frequency to instructions per clock |
John Crawford, Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group |
March 9, 2006 |
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| High Performance Throughput Computing |
Dr. Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect, Sun's Scalable Systems Group |
March 2, 2006 |
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| The Fog of Data: Long Term Cyberinfrastructure |
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Santa Clara University |
February 9, 2006 |
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| Advertising is Flirtation |
James H. Morris, Dean, Carnegie Mellon West |
February 2, 2006 |
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| The Medium That Ate the World |
Raph Koster, Chief Creative Officer, Sony Online Entertainment |
January 26, 2006 |
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| After the Storm |
Garrett Brisbee, Palo Alto Research Center |
January 19, 2006 |
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| AI meets Web 2.0: Building The Web Of Tomorrow Today |
Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Chairman, CommerceNet and Director, Webify Solutions, Inc. & Medstory, Inc. |
January 12, 2006 |
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| Project Delta: How to Bake an Open Source Cookie |
Steve Gundrum, President and CEO, Mattson |
December 8, 2005 |
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| Stanley's Brain, An overview of Stanford's winning entry to the Darpa Grand Challenge |
Gary Rost Bradski, Intel Research and Stanford University |
November 17, 2005 |
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| Accelerating Breakthroughs in Small Scale Electricity Storage -- A Strategic Economic Lever |
Julian Gresser, Chairman--Alliances for Discovery/Chairman & President, Energy Voyager, Inc. and Dan Rastler, EPRI |
November 10, 2005 |
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| Wired for Interfaces: How an Understanding of Social Psychology Can Inform Design |
Clifford Nass, Stanford University |
November 3, 2005 |
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| Integrating Physical and Digital Interactions for Creative Collaboration |
Scott Klemmer, Stanford University |
October 27, 2005 |
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| Energy Efficiency in China: Glorious History, Uncertain Future |
Mark Levine, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
October 13, 2005 |
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| Energy Trading, the California Debacle, Why Enron was Good, and $70 Oil |
Raj Mahajan, SunGard Kiodex |
September 29, 2005 |
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| How Plug-In Hybrids Tackle National Security, Jobs and Global Warming at the Same Time |
Felix Kramer, Founder of The California Cars Initiative |
September 22, 2005 |
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| Return of the Natives: Restoring the South Bay Wetland Ecosystem |
Dr. Lynne Trulio, San Jose State University and South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project |
September 15, 2005 |
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| Brides of Frankenstein: The Marriage of Art and Technology. |
Marcia Tanner, Guest Curator, San Jose Museum of Art |
August 18, 2005 |
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| The Simplicity of Concurrency |
Karl Fant, Theseus Research, Inc |
July 21, 2005 |
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| Our Squandered Victory and the Prospects for Democracy in Iraq |
Larry J. Diamond, Hoover Institution and Stanford University |
June 29, 2005 |
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| Cassini-Huygens exploration of the Saturn System |
Jeff Cuzzi, NASA |
June 23, 2005 |
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| The Study Of the Study Of |
Scott Minneman, Onomy Labs, Inc. |
June 9, 2005 |
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| The Math Instinct: The amazing mathematical abilities of animals, birds, insects, and babies, and what we can learn from them |
Keith Devlin, Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford University |
June 2, 2005 |
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| The Science from "Spirit" and "Opportunity" |
Albert Haldemann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
May 12, 2005 |
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| Why Evolutionary Biology and Genome Sciences Need Each Other |
Jeffrey L. Boore, DOE Joint Genome Institute and UC-Berkeley |
May 5, 2005 |
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| Supergaming! Design for Massively Collaborative Public Play |
Jane McGonigal, U.C. Berkeley |
April 28, 2005 |
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| GNU Go |
Daniel Bump, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University |
April 21, 2005 |
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| Bringing Energy into the 21st Century: Technology will Lead the Way |
Tim Woodward, Managing Director, Nth Power Venture Capital Firm |
April 7, 2005 |
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| Technology and New Business Models for Developing Countries |
James L. Koch, Professor of Management and Founder of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University |
March 31, 2005 |
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| Lesson Learned: Reflections of a Corporate Activist |
Barbara Waugh, co-founded HP's Sustainability Network, as well as e-inclusion and Author of The Soul in the Computer |
March 24, 2005 |
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| Green = Value |
David Gottfried, Founder, Green Building Councils, President of WorldBuild Technologies, Inc., Author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life |
March 10, 2005 |
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| Technology Commercialization and Economic Development at the University of
Illinois: Progress and Pitfalls |
Charles F. Zukoski, Vice Chancellor for Research & Professor of Chemical Engineering, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
March 3, 2005 |
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| Exploratory Research: Hybridizing Internal & External Innovation |
David Tennenhouse, Intel Vice President in the Corporate Technology Group and Director of Research |
February 24, 2005 |
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| Cradle to Cradle: Innovation for the Next Industrial Revolution |
Michael Braungart, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung, Hamburg, Germany |
February 16, 2005 |
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| Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology |
Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology |
February 10, 2005 |
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| REVELations 2005: Quilt Art & Fiber Sculpture from Faultline Studio Artists |
Faultline Studio Artists: Claudia Comay, Marilyn Merkt Felber, Sue Fox, Charlotte Grossman, Karen Lusnak, Nancy Pagani, Gerri Mann Peterson, Nina Shortridge, Alexandra Von Burg |
February 3, 2005 |
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| Printed plastic electronic devices |
Robert Street, Senior Research Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center |
January 27, 2005 |
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