Stanford U (videos of May 2017)

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5:25 Ensuring Freshwater Sustainability: Mapping Groundwater from the Air Stanford Earth’s Rosemary Knight recently spearheaded a project to map underground freshwater resources and forecast the intrusion of saltwater into aquifers beneath the California coastal town of ...
2:49 Stanford Law clinic, student group tackle immigration challenges Stanford Law students in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic have full responsibility for defending clients against deportation in San Francisco Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and t...
55:45 Vision Science: The Latest Research and Treatments Learn about cutting-edge research and clinical trials to develop new treatments for eye disease, including therapies to prevent vision loss and even to restore sight for those already suffering fro...
1:01:29 Don’t Skimp on Sleep! Reclaiming Sleep to Live Your Best Life Why is sleep essential to good health? What are signs of poor sleep and sleep disorders and how can you address them? Dr. Pelayo, a popular talk show speaker and guest lecturer, will explain the st...
56:40 Optimizing Wellness: Nutrition and Lifestyle Advice What’s the right diet for you? More importantly, what’s going to motivate you to follow it? Dr. Gardner will share the keys to acting on the latest nutrition advice, explore the benefits of differe...
55:51 Your Microbiome: What Is It, and How Can It Help or Hurt You? Your body hosts literally trillions of organisms—bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other tiny life forms—that collectively make up your microbiome. But what does your microbiome do, and how can it affe...
46:52 How Heart Doctors Stay Heart Healthy How do diet, movement, and interpersonal relationships affect heart health? How can genetic information help predict and prevent heart disease? In this talk, Dr. Knowles will present simple, real-l...
56:42 Embracing a Healthy Lifestyle Today to Enhance Your Life Tomorrow: Abby C. King, PhD How can you best maintain daily function and well-being to preserve your independence and quality of life as you age? Dr. King, an internationally recognized researcher from the Stanford Prevention...
1:18:16 Maria Stepanova - Time Backward: Putin’s Russia in Search of Identity "April 6, 2016 at Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center
Stepanova’s talk considers Russia’s current obsession with the past, at all levels of society, and its direct effect – what she ca...
1:17:03 Race Talk Across the Disciplines What is “race”? What is “ethnicity”? This panel brings together four CCSRE faculty members discussing how they understand the terms “race” and “ethnicity” from their own disciplinary perspectives. ...
6:48 Fighting to Be Who He Is ‹ A Transgender Teen Finds Help on a Difficult Journey
2:50 Stanford students learn mass production design through injection molding class In an advanced design and manufacturing class at the Stanford Product Realization Lab, students push themselves to make plastic parts that look deceptively simple.
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1:29:17 Creating World Class Computer Science at Stanford The panelists discussed Stanford's Computer Science Department within the historical context of higher education, technological innovations, and the Silicon Valley. They talked about how it grew fr...
1:05:43 Bill Perry: The Department of Defense and the National Security Ecosystem Bill Perry was the 19th US Secretary of Defense, serving under Bill Clinton. Prior to this role, Secretary Perry was also Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and...
1:14:18 Bill Crowell: National Security in the Information Age Bill Crowell is the Former Deputy Director of National Security Agency (NSA) and Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group.
In this video, lecturer Ernestine F...
4:18 After 25 years, Stanford Taiko still beats the drum The all student performance group is celebrating its 25 year anniversary. Taiko is a global phenomenon that is popular from Japan to the Americas to Europe, but in North America, the incorporation ...
2:16 Stanford's Iranian Studies Program covers culture, art, and politics Established in 2004 and endowed in 2006, the primary focus of the Iranian Studies Program is the interdisciplinary study of modern Iranian society, culture, politics and economy. Iran as a civiliza...
1:16:14 Gilman Louie: The CIA’s Venture Capital Arm, In-Q-Tel, and Funding Startups for the Government Gilman Louie is a venture capitalist and the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the CIA with venture-backed technol...
1:05:12 James Geurts: Finding and Delivering Technologies for Special Operations Forces Worldwide James Geurts is the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, based in MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He is responsible for all special operations forces research, development, ...
1:02:51 Mark Hartney: ARPA-E and Funding R&D of Advanced Energy Technologies Mark Hartney is the director of the Office of Strategic Planning at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, prior to which he served at the Department of Energy as one of the founding program directo...
2:52 Safety as a Core Value in Stanford Labs At Stanford University our institutional leaders in research play a critical role in supporting the value and importance of safety in laboratory research. Stanford’s Dean of Research Ann Arvin, and...
39:28 Perceived Sense: Augmenting Design Interactions From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Yasaman Sheri, a designer with Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design and Microsoft Hololens looks at how technological advancements in compu...
45:38 Game Design Principles for Teaching Ethics: Insights from Designer Board Games From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Tomer Perry, a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University examines using game design principles to enhance...
41:11 Networks for Serious Business: Finnish Game Industry From the Interactive Media and Games Seminar Series, Kaisa Still a Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, uses a network- centric view to understanding the Finnish game indus...
47:17 Using the Minitel Experience to Build the Future of Interactive Online Media From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Julien Mailland, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University's Media School and a Research Scholar with the Computer Histor...
49:35 The Global API Ecosystem: A Deep Dive Into Gaming From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series: Jukka Huhtamäki, a postdoctoral researcher at the Business Data Research Group (DARE) at Tampere University of Technology, digs deep into the gami...
45:13 Giving Robots a Life: Writing Personality and Backstory for AI Assistants From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Elizabeth Arredondo, a writer focused on created compelling characters for television and interactive mediums covers her real-world experiences de...