This gallery portion will be followed by a presentation by Israeli-American photographer, artist and activist Nili Yosha, who will present her photo-project called "My Tel Aviv," an activist's reflection on the human side of Tel Aviv unseen by the eye of the tourist.

Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the New Israel Fund, Hillel, YJ Impact Fellowship Program, and the Free Speech Movement Cafe Educational Program Series.

Lytle Shaw's books of poetry include Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel (Shark, 1998), Cable Factory 20 (Atelos, 1999), and The Lobe (Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). He is a regular contributor to Cabinet Magazine and has recently written art catalog essays on Gerard Byrne (for Koenig Books), on Robert Smithson (for Dia Center), and on The Royal Art Lodge (for The Drawing Center). Since 2004 Shaw has co-edited the Chadwick Family Papers with Jimbo Blachly; installations and performances related to this material have occurred at PS1/MoMA, Wave Hill, PS122, Bartram?s Garden/ICA Philadelphia, and the Queens Museum. Periscope Books will publish, The Chadwicks: Episodes and Events, in fall of 2008 to coincide with an exhibition in New York at Winckleman Gallery, where Shaw and Blachly are represented. Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University.]]> webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Lytle Shaw) UC Berkeley, Education Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23074 Lytle Shaw UC Berkeley, Education <object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrR-iQgSviA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrR-iQgSviA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="240"></embed></object> <p><b>Lytle Shaw</b>'s books of poetry include <i>Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel</i> (Shark, 1998), <i>Cable Factory 20</i> (Atelos, 1999), and <i>The Lobe</i> (Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, <i>Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie</i> (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited <i>19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology</i> (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). He is a regular contributor to Cabinet Magazine and has recently written art catalog essays on Gerard Byrne (for Koenig Books), on Robert Smithson (for Dia Center), and on The Royal Art Lodge (for The Drawing Center). Since 2004 Shaw has co-edited the Chadwick Family Papers with Jimbo Blachly; installations and performances related to this material have occurred at PS1/MoMA, Wave Hill, PS122, Bartram?s Garden/ICA Philadelphia, and the Queens Museum. Periscope Books will publish, <i>The Chadwicks: Episodes and Events</i>, in fall of 2008 to coincide with an exhibition in New York at Winckleman Gallery, where Shaw and Blachly are represented. Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/holloway//hrs_20080501.mp3 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23074 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/holloway//hrs_20080501.mp3 <object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrR-iQgSviA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrR-iQgSviA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="240"></embed></object> <p><b>Lytle Shaw</b>'s books of poetry include <i>Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel</i> (Shark, 1998), <i>Cable Factory 20</i> (Atelos, 1999), and <i>The Lobe</i> (Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, <i>Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie</i> (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited <i>19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology</i> (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). He is a regular contributor to Cabinet Magazine and has recently written art catalog essays on Gerard Byrne (for Koenig Books), on Robert Smithson (for Dia Center), and on The Royal Art Lodge (for The Drawing Center). Since 2004 Shaw has co-edited the Chadwick Family Papers with Jimbo Blachly; installations and performances related to this material have occurred at PS1/MoMA, Wave Hill, PS122, Bartram?s Garden/ICA Philadelphia, and the Queens Museum. Periscope Books will publish, <i>The Chadwicks: Episodes and Events</i>, in fall of 2008 to coincide with an exhibition in New York at Winckleman Gallery, where Shaw and Blachly are represented. Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/holloway//hrs_20080501.mp3 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23064 Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley present:

David Baker: "Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an Online Computer Game"

Professor David Baker, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Washington

"The Dawn of Creation: The First 2 Billion Years"

Steven Beckwith, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of California, Office of the President

The beauty of the universe, the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and most of the stars, got its start in the first billion years after the beginning of time, the Big Bang. Every deep picture of the sky reveals thousands of these galaxies, each made up of billions of stars like the Sun. The intricate spiral structures of the Milky Way as well as the very smooth distributions of the larger elliptical galaxies took shape slowly, building up from many pieces in the detritus of the initial explosion governed by the dark matter that we can sense but still not see. Modern technical wonders like the Hubble Space Telescope have made it possible to look back to a time when the universe looked very different than it does today, when the first galaxies were created and the universe developed structure seen as patterns in the galaxies apparent today. This years Sackler Lecture will look back to the first 2 billion years.

View the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients Profile video

Annual Review of the Presidency

April 11, 2008

Developments in Campaign Finance

Keynote Lecture: "The Way We Choose Presidential Nominees: Problems and Prospects"

Parties, Primaries, and Process

The 2008 Nominations -- The Never-Ending Story

April 12, 2008

Assessing the Post-Reform System

For more information, visit the IGS: Choosing the President in 2008 website.

Heather Cooley: Senior Researcher, Pacific Institute.

Summary: Long considered the Holy Grail of water supply, desalination offers the potential of an unlimited source of fresh water purified from the vast oceans of salt water that surround us. The public, politicians, and water managers continue to hope that cost-effective and environmentally safe ocean desalination will come to the rescue of water-short regions.

Interest in desalination has been especially high in California, where rapidly growing populations, inadequate regulation of the water supply/land-use nexus, and ecosystem degradation from existing water supply sources have forced a rethinking of water policies and management. In the past five years, public and private entities have put forward more than 20 proposals for large desalination facilities along the California coast. Project proponents point to statewide water-supply constraints, the reliability advantages of ""drought-proof"" supply, the water quality improvements offered by desalinated water, and the benefits of local control. Along with the proposals, however, has come a growing public debate about high economic and energy costs, environmental and social impacts, and consequences for coastal development policies. This presentation discusses the advantages and disadvantages of seawater desalination within the context of California.

Ovshinsky developed a new class of disordered or amorphous materials in an area of physics now called "Ovonics." He translated these scientific advances into non-polluting approaches to producing and storing energy from thin film solar technology that is mass produced to hydrogen fuel cells and storage devices. The nickel metal hydride batteries he developed currently power most hybrid cars.

Stan Ovshinsky holds about 350 U.S. patents and has authored more than 275 scientific papers in fields as diverse as neurophysiology and amorphous semiconductors. He has won innumerable honors including the 2005 Innovation Award for Energy and the Environment from the Economist magazine.

He and his late wife, Iris, were named Heroes of Chemistry 2000 by the American Chemical Society for "advances in electrochemical, energy storage and energy generation, including the development of Ovonic nickel metal hydride (NIMH) rechargeable batteries, regenerative fuel cells, solid hydrogen storage system and amorphous silicon photovoltaics" and for having "made significant and lasting contributions to global human welfare."

Stan Ovshinsky is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

"Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award (Career Award), the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and social Psychology (SPSP), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), The Award for Scholarship and Creativity from the Regents of the University of Maryland, and the Revesz Award from the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Kruglanski was also Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist.

He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security, and is serving on the NAS Board for Cognitive, Social and Sensory Processes. Kruglanski also serves as a co- PI at START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland.

Professor Kruglanski's lecture will examine recent analyses of the motivations for suicidal terrorism. This lecture will suggest that heterogeneous factors identified as personal causes of suicidal terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion), the various ideological reasons assumed to justify it (e.g. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one?s nation or religion), and the social pressures brought upon candidates for suicidal terrorism may be profitably subsumed within an integrative framework that explains diverse instances of suicidal terrorism as attempts at significance restoration, significance gain, and prevention of significance loss.

International Medical Corps (IMC) has been on the front lines of most major humanitarian emergencies of the last two decades, including the famine in Somalia, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the Rwandan genocide, and atrocities against children in northern Uganda. More recently, International Medical Corps was a first responder after the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and responded domestically following Hurricane Katrina. Today, in challenging environments such as Darfur and Chad, International Medical Corps saves lives, provides critical health care and trains local health workers, enabling communities to become self-reliant.

International Medical Corps' President and CEO, Nancy A. Aossey, will address the ever-shifting challenges of delivering relief in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including issues of security, lack of necessary resources and the need for innovative solutions to decades-old problems. These solutions likely will be achieved through the research and innovative thinking provided by graduates of our schools of public health, including Berkeley, who are actively engaged in addressing the realities of today?s world and working toward overcoming the obstacles to health and development in the future.

Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson: Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Summary: Among the most valuable of ecosystem services are those related to watersheds, including water quality and flow regulation. New York City's decision in the 1990s to invest in watershed protection in the Catskills and Delaware water basins has led many to believe or hope that markets and public policies focused on the value of these services can increase conservation of key watershed lands. A survey completed two years ago, however, showed little effort by most water suppliers in California to protect their watersheds. In some regions of the nation, water suppliers are even selling off watershed lands or managing the land in a way that might undermine water quality. This presentation will look at what efforts private and public entities are currently taking place (or not taking place) to protect these "watershed services," what the potential is (and obstacles are) to protecting watersheds through their services, and what public policies the government could pursue to promote greater protection of watershed services and thus the watersheds that provide them. This examination of watershed services will also offer insights into the opportunities provided by the broader concept of ecosystem services.

More information a bout this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, astrophysicists George Smoot and Saul Perlmutter, and Mark Richards, executive dean of the College of Letters and Science were the speakers at a December 4, 2007 event announcing the launch of the new center.

Academic Library 2.0

A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division

Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse.

Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe.

The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions.

The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources.

Among the themes to be discussed at the conference will be:
- blogs and vlogs
- wikis
- podcasts
- RSS
- photo and videosharing: Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube
- social bookmarking
- tagging and folksonomies
- user-driven comment, rating, and recommender systems
- the "wisdom of crowds" and/or "radical trust"
- new user habits, behaviors, and expectations
- user-centered, socially-driven services
- user-create

Academic Library 2.0

A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division

Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse.

Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe.

The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions.

The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources.

Among the themes to be discussed at the conference will be:
- blogs and vlogs
- wikis
- podcasts
- RSS
- photo and videosharing: Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube
- social bookmarking
- tagging and folksonomies
- user-driven comment, rating, and recommender systems
- the "wisdom of crowds" and/or "radical trust"
- new user habits, behaviors, and expectations
- user-centered, socially-driven services
- user-create

James Neal is the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University in New York City, providing leadership for university academic computing and a system of 25 libraries. In this position, he has oversight for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, the Copyright Advisory Office, and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. Jim Neal is a frequent speaker and author with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs, organizational change, and human resource development.

For further information:
www.columbia.edu/~jneal/
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

Betsy Wilson is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Washington.

Presented in association with the College of Letters & Science's On the Same Page program.

The Benjamin Ide wheeler Society honors those individuals who have included UC Berkeley in their estate plan or through a life income gift.
For more information on the Wheeler Society or for information about including Cal in your estate plan, please contact the Office of Gift Planning.

Prof. Leon Litwack delivers "An Ideal Last Lecture" to the public. His "actual" last lecture for his signature course, History 7B, will take place at 11:00am on Monday, May 7th, also in Wheeler Auditorium (you'll want to come early to that one, as colleagues and former students are flying in from around the country to attend!).

Featured panelists:

Shane Bauer is a current undergraduate student in UCB's Peace and Conflict Studies Department. The first year away from his home in Minnesota, he witnessed war for the first time in Macedonia at the impressionable age of 19. Following this traumatic yet illuminating exposure to war, he traveled as a photojournalist, documenting conflict and genocide around the world. Last year, Shane traveled to Chad and Sudan.

Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, an interdisciplinary research center supporting basic research on Africa. Her research includes agrarian politics and ethnic conflict in Sudan.

David Tuller is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health and has a special interest in looking at public health through a human rights lens. He investigated some of Darfur's mass atrocities as part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights in 2005.

The US Constitution, unlike most of its counterparts, lacks an emergency provision allowing for its own temporary suspension in times of national crisis. Nonetheless, wartime presidents have derogated from constitutional principles, from Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to FDR's internment of west coast residents of Japanese descent. Where on the continuum between the rule of law and the realm of unchecked executive discretion should we situate the current response to new national security threats posed by terrorism? Have executive policies on detention and trial ofenemy combatants, warrantless wiretapping, and government secrecy in the "global war on terror" gone too far? Which branch is best positioned to check the executive if so--Congress or the courts? Can "emergency" changes made now become effectively permanent?

James Geringer was Governor of Wyoming from 1994 to January 2003. He modernized economic planning to extensively include technology and changed how natural resource agencies work together on the state, federal and local level. He joined Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of 2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies, focused on how senior elected and corporate officials can enable productivity through technology.

The Edward E. Penhoet Annual Lecture focuses on how biology, behavior, and environment intersect to produce health.

Andy Grove, cofounder and senior adviser to executive management, Intel Corporation, will discuss the role of technology in solving the crisis in the U.S. health care system.

Stern will explain how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars. He will also address investment in low carbon energy sources, issues of international competition and the importance of China and other emerging economies.]]> webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Stern, Nicholas) UC Berkeley, Education, Public Policy, Economics, Environment / Natural Resources Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19229 Stern, Nicholas UC Berkeley, Education, Public Policy, Economics, Environment / Natural Resources Thank you for your interest in this event. An archive of the live event will be available for on-demand viewing within two business days. Please check back here for updates. <p> The Economics of Climate Change: Is tackling climate change a pro-growth strategy for California?" - a talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, is hosting the lecture, which is free and open to the public. <p> Stern will explain how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars. He will also address investment in low carbon energy sources, issues of international competition and the importance of China and other emerging economies. http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/events/cnr/cnr_20070330_stern.rm?start=&amp;end= http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19229 http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/events/cnr/cnr_20070330_stern.rm?start=&amp;end= Thank you for your interest in this event. An archive of the live event will be available for on-demand viewing within two business days. Please check back here for updates. <p> The Economics of Climate Change: Is tackling climate change a pro-growth strategy for California?" - a talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, is hosting the lecture, which is free and open to the public. <p> Stern will explain how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars. He will also address investment in low carbon energy sources, issues of international competition and the importance of China and other emerging economies. http://teles.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/events/cnr/cnr_20070330_stern.rm?start=&amp;end= http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19228 Alfred Brendel is recognized by audiences the world over for his legendary ability to communicate the emotional and intellectual depths of whatever music he performs. A supreme master of his art, his accomplishments as an interpreter of the great classical and romantic composers--Mozart, Schubert, and others--have earned him a place among the world's most revered musicians. A man of wide-ranging talents, Brendel is also an acclaimed essayist and a published poet. The Townsend Center is pleased to present such a celebrated pianist in conversation with director Anthony J. Cascardi, offering a unique opportunity for audiences to hear Brendel's reflections on music and culture prior to his campus performance on Sunday, March 18.

This event is part of the Townsend Center's inaugural Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. It is presented in association with Cal Performances.

Maria Echaveste is Lecturer in Residence at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and the cofounder of the Nueva Vista Group, a consulting firm. She served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton White House from 1998-2001.

For more information, see the IEAS website for this event.

Greg Gianforte has led RightNow from its founding in 1997 to 9 consecutive years of revenue growth, 19 consecutive quarters of cash-flow positive performance and a successful IPO. His market vision, leadership, entrepreneurial philosophy and commitment to ethical business practices has enabled RightNow to consistently grow?during a period when many other software companies have stumbled?and to achieve remarkable levels of customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Ernst & Young awarded Greg the Pacific Northwest 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year for the software category. A panel of independent judges evaluated the excellence and extraordinary success of outstanding entrepreneurs in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Greg founded Brightwork, a pioneering developer of network management applications, in 1986. With 75 employees and software installed on more than 150,000 Novell systems nationwide, Greg sold the company to McAfee Associates in 1994. He was retained by McAfee to run its North American sales operation, which he grew from $25 million in revenues to more than $60 million in under a year. During Greg's tenure, McAfee was selected by Fortune Magazine, based primarily on its Internet selling approach, as one of the "10 Coolest Companies in America."

Greg is also the author of Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.

Greg holds a BE in electrical engineering and an MS in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism about the direction he is taking the magazine, and about America's role in the world.

Presented by: The Graduate School of Journalism, The Economist, Haas School of Business, Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, and the World Affairs Council.

UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

A Conversation with Bruce Chizen and Dean Richard Newton

Chief Executive Officer Bruce Chizen's customer-focused vision has transformed Adobe into one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Since his promotion to CEO in 2000, Chizen has more than doubled Adobe's revenue and turned a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry today.

Under Chizen's leadership, Adobe recently acquired Macromedia, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. The acquisition brings together some of the industry's strongest software brands and most ubiquitous technologies, and accelerates Adobe's strategy to provide a powerful software platform that scales from mobile devices to enterprise servers. With this platform, Adobe has access to more desktops and end users than any other technology vendor.

In addition to growing Adobe's leadership in design and publishing software, Chizen has led the company's expansion into new markets, from enterprises and knowledge workers to high-end consumers. During Chizen's tenure, Adobe has consistently ranked near the top of Fortune Magazine's annual report on the "100 Best Companies to Work For."

Prior to becoming CEO in December 2000, Chizen was executive vice president of worldwide products and marketing. At Adobe since 1994, he was previously vice president and general manager of both the professional graphics division and Adobe's consumer division.

From 1980 to 1983, he worked in Mattel Electronics' merchandising group, helping grow it to a $500 million business. In 1983, Chizen joined Microsoft Corporation as the company's eastern region sales director. In 1987, he joined Claris Corporation as a founding senior manager and later held positions as vice president of sales and of worldwide marketing before becoming vice president and general manager of Claris Clear Choice.

Chizen holds a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He serves on the boards of Synopsys, Inc. and the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

The View from the Top lecture series brings distinguished leaders in technology and industry to the College of Engineering.

View from the Top is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Engineering Fund and CITRIS (the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society).

Panelists: Vincent Resh (ESPM), Ani Adhikari (Statistics), Americ Azevedo (IDS), Martha Olney (Economics), and Timothy Yiu (Student). Moderated by Steve Tollefson (Office of Educational Development).]]> webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) UC Berkeley, Education, Technology Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=17390 Various UC Berkeley, Education, Technology Last spring faculty engaged in a Teach-net discussion presenting the entire range of opinions about why students seem to be not showing up for classes. There was even some discussion of whether this is a new trend and whether it's important. <P> The conversation continues in this forum with panelists and audience members weighing in on the phenomenon. <P> Panelists: Vincent Resh (ESPM), Ani Adhikari (Statistics), Americ Azevedo (IDS), Martha Olney (Economics), and Timothy Yiu (Student). Moderated by Steve Tollefson (Office of Educational Development). http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/teaching/disappearing.mp3 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=17390 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/teaching/disappearing.mp3 Last spring faculty engaged in a Teach-net discussion presenting the entire range of opinions about why students seem to be not showing up for classes. There was even some discussion of whether this is a new trend and whether it's important. <P> The conversation continues in this forum with panelists and audience members weighing in on the phenomenon. <P> Panelists: Vincent Resh (ESPM), Ani Adhikari (Statistics), Americ Azevedo (IDS), Martha Olney (Economics), and Timothy Yiu (Student). Moderated by Steve Tollefson (Office of Educational Development). http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/teaching/disappearing.mp3 http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=17392 Chris Rittler
Vice President of Business Development and Product Management, Tropos Networks

Chris Rittler is Tropos Networks' Vice President of Business Development and Product Management. He has over 15 years of experience in the wireless systems industry bringing exemplary leadership in the creation of strategy and the development of products for the wireless carrier market. He leads the company's business development and product managment teams.

Mr. Rittler was most recently the Senior Vice President of Product Development of Cambia Networks, an early-stage company that developed wireless Internet gateways for the cellular carrier market. Prior to Cambia, Mr. Rittler held multiple senior leadership positions during an extensive career in cellular systems product development with Motorola. Most recently he led the organization responsible for Motorola's CDMA radio network control and data products. Previously he led the CDMA product management organization.

Chris holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Established in 1991, the Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series honors a designated Emeritus faculty member from the U.C. Berkeley Department of Anthropology with a lecture by a distinguished anthropologist working in an area related to the honorees' field of expertise.

Beginning in 1995, the lecture series has been enhanced by exhibits at the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library and on the Internet illustrating the career of the honoree including biographical, bibliographical and other information.

As a collection, the Anthropology Emeritus web sites provide a perspective on anthropology at the University of California and more generally, a recent history of anthropology as a discipline.