Big Data, Machine Intelligence, and the Human Cognition   There is an interesting convergence of three major technological trends: big data, AI, and virtual humans.  Big data are transforming science, scholarship, and virtually every other aspect of the modern society.  AI may be the most transformative technology ever, and it can help us discover complex […]

Preparation Excursion June 12th   On Saturday, June 12th, Skip Dahlgren (AbaBrukh) takes us to his Archaeological sites of Ethiopia & Eritrea on our Opensim grid. For this, visitors need a different viewer, and an avatar must be created. On Sunday, May 2, we offer you the opportunity to receive assistance from grid manager Agustin […]

Preparation Excursion June 12th   On Saturday, June 12th, Skip Dahlgren (AbaBrukh) takes us to his Archaeological sites of Ethiopia & Eritrea on our Opensim grid. For this, visitors need a different viewer, and an avatar must be created. On Sunday, May 2, we offer you the opportunity to receive assistance from grid manager Agustin […]

Computer vision   Computer vision is impressively prevalent in today’s world, enabling a wide array of advancements like self-driving cars, snapchat filters and automated medical image analysis. This lecture hopes to demystify the techniques used by machines to comprehend the visual world. The basic tasks of feature extraction to perform procedures like object detection or […]

We are sorry this is a private briefing for SC members only. We hope to see our guests again next week at Phil Youngblood's "Understanding Science: How Computers Work"

Understanding Science: How Computers Work The last two presentations in this series explored particle physics, the world of the very small, and our solar system, the much larger space that surrounds our more familiar world.   In this episode we will explore one area of how science is applied to create technology by examining how […]

Panel: Medicinal Psychedelics In recent years there have been reports of the therapeutic clinical use of psychedelic substances to treat mental health ailments such as PTSD, Bi-Polar Disorder, depression, and end of life palliative care.  Please join us in the Science Circle to discuss the potential of psychedelics as medicine with therapeutic applications.   Guests […]

Travel to the Time of Titanoboa   The Science Behind Titanoboa Dr. Alex Hastings will lead part of the tour discussing the world of Titanoboa, 60 million years ago. How and why was the snake so big? What else lived in those murky waters?  Plus he'll share what it was like finding Titanoboa fossils in […]