If the world was a village of 100 people

A USP 2 student kindly shared this interesting link to a video presentation about our global village. It is based on the work of Donella Meadows from the 1990s, so it is a little dated. But it gets the points across with some nice imagery: http://www.miniature-earth.com/

Calit2 “RESEARCH EXPO ’07: Igniting Innovation”

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Alan Eustace, VP, Research and Systems Engineering, Google Inc. (keynote); et. al.

Calit2 will play an important role in this year’s Jacobs School of Engineering RESEARCH EXPO, which will take place in and around the institute at UCSD. The keynote speaker, Alan Eustace, will explain how Google is exploring new ways to organize the world's information to make it universally accessible and useful.
Time: 8:30am-2pm.
Location: Engineering Courtyard, Calit2, CSE, Bioengineering.

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