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26th Annual Bunyan Lecture

Professor Steve Squyres of Cornell University
Free public lecture:

"Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet"

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
7:30pm, Hewlett Auditorium room 201

The two Mars exploration rovers, Spirit and ( Read more... )

Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas.

After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the
world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture
movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and
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As we head into Dead Week, get ready for the last Symbolic Systems Forum event of the quarter featuring David Wilkins in AI and Cognitive Science: ---

***SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM***

Learning to Recognize Facial Emotions:

Psychologists vs. Artists

David C. Wilkins

Symbolic Systems and CLSI

www.stanford.edu/~dwilkins

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(For those who don't know this, Symbolic Systems is the program in which I am currently majoring.  I say "currently" because I expect to switch to CS instead, but as I'm not in classes at the moment the decision can be put off a while longer.  )


SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM:

Are Emotions Beneficial or Detrimental for Human Decision Making?

Prof. Baba Shiv
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I went through and pruned today. Contemplating doing that meme for my entire flist brought me to realize that I had over 300 friends, plus another thirty or more rss feeds. I mostly took off people I didn't think were reading anymore, feeds I hadn't followed in months, that kind of thing. If you were taken off and you *have* been reading and ( Read more... )