Speaker: Victor Galaz
Title: Can Information Technology Really Help Save the Planet?
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Category: Talk
Abrupt climate change, “planetary boundaries” and the failure of international institutions to deal with multiple interacting global crises have gained considerable scientific and political attention over the last years. Few sustainability scientists however, […]
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Speaker: J. Doyne Farmer
Title: Laws of Technological Progress
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009
Category: Talk
With the advance of global warming, the predictability of future technological change becomes a pressing and relevant issue. Dr. Doyne Farmer of the Santa Fe Institute compares several different hypotheses for technological improvement using different examples […]
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Speaker: Keith Hipel
Title: Trade versus the Environment: Strategic Settlement from a Systems Engineering Perspective
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Keith Hipel of System Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo discusses applications of graph theory to conflict analysis and resolution. His research focuses on local, national, and global […]
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