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Davis Futures Forum presents Community Engagement Starts@Home with Rick Cole: Lessons from the Field

Submitted by Cool Davis on Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:37pm
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The Davis Futures Forum will host Rick Cole, a highly respected local government leader, on Thursday, June 25, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm via Zoom. Cole notes, “Whether it is climate change, racial justice, income inequality, affordable housing, gender equity or public health, solving our nation’s most pressing challenges starts at home.”

The UC Davis Future of Work Series presents "Mass Media and Digital Transformation: How Media Will Change Everything About the Way You Work and Live"

Submitted by Jeff Shaw on Wed, 04/22/2020 - 9:18am
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Mass Media and Digital Transformation: How Media Will Change Everything About the Way You Work and Live

Recorded at UC Davis Shields Library by Davis Media Access on March 5, 2020.

The Future of Work Series at UC Davis presents "Artificial Intelligence or Sophisticated Mimicry: The Business and Ethics of Automated Systems"

Submitted by Jeff Shaw on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 1:22pm
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The Future of Work Series at UC Davis presents

"Artificial Intelligence or Sophisticated Mimicry: The Business and Ethics of Automated Systems"

Featuring speaker Mark Nitzberg, AI scientist, entrepreneur, and consultant to industry and government.  Currently the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, head of strategic outreach for the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and a principal at the Cambrian.ai think tank network.

Populist Dialogues - 18-02 - Saving the Net and Net Neutrality with Municipal Broadband System

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 2:46pm
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What do we do when the federal agency charged with protecting the free and open Internet instead attacks it, allowing large corporations to charge more depending on who is providing the content? In Portland OR, citizens have organized to create a municipal broadband system. We talk with Garrett Hour, founder of municipalbroadbandpdx.org, and Russell Senior, Pres. of Personal Telco Project on why Portland OR should create their own system, instead of having to rely on the private IPS mega-corporations.

In The Studio - 3D Bioprinting: Amazing!

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 4:36pm
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Lin Weaver hosts Marc Facciotti, UC Davis Associate Professor BME/GC, and Steven Lucero, UC Davis Development  Engineer, BME.

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topics discussed include: understanding 3D bioprinting, processes and materials used, the team lab at UC Davis, science futurism with video clip of what 3D bioprinting may be able to do in the future.

What's at Stake? Net Neutrality

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 4:12pm
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America’s access to a fair and open Internet is under attack as Trump’s FCC challenges existing Net Neutrality rules.

This 58-minute special hosted by Laura Flanders discusses the major risks of rolling back net neutrality rules and how people can voice their opinions on this important issue. Weighing in on the topic are panelists Brandi Collins of Color of Change; law professor Tim Wu, Craig Aaron of Free Press; and Gigi Sohn, former Counselor to the FCC Chairman and Open Society Fellow.