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October 27, 2006 Vol. 77, no.
11F
Events
and Announcements
CITRIS Research Exchange
On Wednesday, November 1, the Center for Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) presents “University of
California Web-based Instruction for Science and Engineering,” a
talk by EECS senior lecturer Michael Clancy. The lecture will take
place at 12 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Extraterrestrial aesthetics
The Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium presents “Extraterrestrial
Aesthetics, Divine Genetics, and Other Thought Experiments,” a
lecture by San Francisco-based, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats.
Keats is known for attempting to genetically engineer God in a laboratory,
a 2004 collaboration with Berkeley geneticists. The lecture will
take place on Monday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m. in 105 Northgate Hall.
Get creative
Write a winning essay or submit a musical score! Cash awards are
offered in a variety of fields. Prize amounts vary from $200 to
$5,000. All competitions are open to students of any major. The
deadline for entries is Friday, January 26, 2007. For more information
about individual competitions, go to http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/scholarships/default.htm.
He’s a genius!
The answer to last week’s brainteaser is 720 weeks or 13.8
years. ME junior Josh Bishop-Moser and ME senior Nicolas Ramirez
got it right. But Environmental Engineering Science senior Gordon
Mei sent the correct answer first. Congrats Gordon! Thanks everyone
for submitting an answer. Stay tuned for next week’s brainteaser.
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