TASC

Lunch at the Hangen Szechuan Restaurant
134 Castro Street, Mountain View

SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH AT 11:45 AM

The format for our meetings is that about noon the speaker begins the presentation, after being introduced by Bob Kirby. About half an hour later lunch is served, which doesn't stop the presentation. Questions for the speaker are during the presentation or after it, depending on the wishes of the speaker.

Lunch costs $11.00 for members, $12.00 for visitors.

For answers to frequently asked questions click here.

NEXT SPEAKER:

Peter Drekmeier

September 9

From the Tuolumne to the Tap


Peter Drekmeier is the Bay Area Program Director for the Tuolumne River Trust, a non-profit organization founded in 1981 to promote the stewardship of the Tuolumne River and its tributaries to ensure a healthy watershed. In addition to regional goals for the Sierra Nevada (protection of untouched tributaries) and the Central Valley (creating a more natural floodplain), the Trust is active in the Bay Area to promote stewardship of the River and innovative models of sustainable water use and efficiency.

Peter will describe the work being done in the Bay Area to raise awareness of our connection to the River, and how our water use decisions impact its health, currently at risk from a San Francisco proposal to take significantly more water from the River. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is proposing to divert up to 25 million more gallons of water per day from the Tuolumne, enough to fill 1,000 swimming pools, every day.

The proposal to divert more water is embedded in the SFPUC’s Water System Improvement Program, a $4.3 billion plan to upgrade the Hetch Hetchy water system, which provides water for 2.4 million people in San Francisco, and surrounding communities in Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda Counties. Peter will explain how taking more water from the Tuolumne would harm important habitat for fish and wildlife, including Chinook salmon and steelhead trout, degrade world-class recreation opportunities, and worsen San Francisco Bay-Delta water quality -- and that new diversions are unnecessary if we include conservation (the cheapest, easiest and least destructive way to meet future water needs) as a key part of a balanced and sustainable water plan.


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June 10th, To Spray or Not to Spray

May 13th A Greener House

April 8th Cow Power

March 25th, 2008 Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free

February 12th, 2008 An Update on the eWaste crisis.


January 8th, 2008. Afghanistan and The War for Hearts and Minds

December 11th, LEGO Robotics at Crittenden Middle School in Mountain View

November 13th, 2007: Stock Market Gambling: Turning on a Dime

October 9th, 2007: Brain Control: Surgical Technology for Fixing the Malfunctioning Brain

August 14th, 2007: Is Our Tap Water Toxic?

July 10th, 2007: Is There a Free Lunch Out There?

May 15th, 2007 The Strain in Pain Lies Mainly in the Brain

April 10, 2007 The Evidence for Dangerous Climate Change

March 13, 2007 The Road to Technological Competitiveness: Via Chicago or Scandinavia?

February 13, 2007 Adobe's Buildings Go Triple Platinum

July 25th, Mind-Machine Interface: It’s the Thought that Counts

June 27th, 2006 Wetlands Restoration in the South Bay

June 13, 2006 Save Hangar One

May 30, 2006 Space World at NASA

April 4th, 2006 A Green Senate Campaign

March 7th, 2006 Gender and Engineering

February 28th, 2006 Using your voice to unleash the power of the internet.

February 14th, 2006 Strategies for Living in an Energy-Poor Society

January 24th, 2006 Lets Gaggle

December 13th, Ocean Restoration

November 15th, Biomimicry

October 18th, Growing One's Own Sustainably in Russia

September 20th, Advances in Public Safety Technology

September 6th, 2005 Secrets of spam: Where it Comes from and How to Stop it

August 23rd, 2005 Ghostrider - Robotic Motorcycle Competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge

August 9th, 2005 Internet Powered Citizen Journalism

July 26th, 2005 The Growing E-Waste Crisis

July 12th, 2005 Scientists & Engineers in Labor Unions? -- Yes

June 28th, 2005 BART to San Jose?

June 14th, 2005 Water Privatization

May 31st, 2005 The History of Moffett Field

May 17th, 2005 Structural and Decorative Panel Products from Tree Free Agricultural Materials

May 3rd, 2005 Earthquakes: Preparation and Prediction

April 5th, 2005 Clocks, Culture, Contrast

March 22nd, 2005 Challenging U. S. Human Rights Violations since 9/11

February 22nd, The Role of Information Technologies in Emerging Economies

February 8th, 2005 Empowering Lives in the Developing World Through Innovative Products

January 18th, 2005 The Space Elevator - Climbing the Sky

January 4th, 2005 An Expandable Styrofoam House or "How to Grow a Chateau"

December 7th, 2004 The Coming Energy Famine

October 26th, 2004, The Science of Political Polling

October 12th, 2004, SpeedInfo

September 28th, History of RFID

August 17th, Building Bridges in Nepal

July 20th, Advances in Reproductive Medicine

July 6th, 2004 West Nile Virus

June 8th, 2004 Electrification of Caltrain Commuter Rail

May 25th, 2004 Stanford Solar Car Project

April 27th, 2004 Guzzling Gas in the Golden State

April 13, 2004 9/11 ? Unanswered Questions

March 30, 2004 The Car-sharing Movement

March 16th, 2004 Unified and the Script Encoding Initiative

March 2nd, 2004 Space Exploration and Discovery -- Where are we Headed?

February 17, 2004: Depleted Uranium Munitions

February 3rd, 2004: Offshoring High Tech Jobs

January 20th, 2004: The Future of Online Music

January 6th, 2004: Solving Crimes in the Future

December 9th, 2003: Destruction of Infrastructure in Iraq

October 28th, 2003:  "Watchdogging" Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

October 14, 2003: Electoral Systems: What are they, why do they matter?

September 16, 2003: Genetically Modified Organisms: What's Next?

August 19, 2003: Trail of Toxins: Mountain View to Arizona

August 5th, 2003: Tidal Power for San Francisco?

July 22nd, 2003: The Resolution on Electronic Voting

July 8th, 2003: What is Wetlands Restoration & Why Do We Need it?

June 24th, 2003 Holding Human Rights Violators Accountable

June 10th, 2003 Studying the Origins of Life

May 27th, 2003 Open Spectrum

May 6th, 2003 Fingerprints of Global Warming

April 29th, 2003 Cold Fusion Research at SRI: past, present and prospective

April 15th, 2003 The Archimedes Project

April 1st, 2003 Blogging

March 18th, 2003 Technology and Alzheimer's

March 4th, 2003 Total Information Awareness (TIA)

February 4th, 2003 Scoping the San Andreas Fault

January 21st, 2003 Zero Emission Buses

January 7th, 2003 Video/Discussion on Fair Elections

December 10th, 2002 Micro Turbines in Mountain View

November 12th, 2002 Found: the Missing Nitrogen Oxides

October 29th, 2002 Gearing Up for Electronic Voting

October 15th, 2002 Magnetic Levitation Technologies for Industry and Transportation

September 17, 2002 Clean 'n Green in San Jose

September 3, 2002 Micropower Broadcasting

August 20, 2002 Mitigating the Impact of Media Consolidation

August 6, 2002 The Ethics of Stem Cell Research

July 23, 2002 Moving Californians into the Future

July 9, 2002 National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

June 25, 2002 The Rising Tide of Spam

June 11, 2002 Witness to Plan Columbia.

May 28, 2002 Hollywood's Bid to Control Digital TV Signals

May 14, 2002 Assessing the High-Tech Workforce of the Future

April 30, 2002 Building for the Future: The Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies

April 16, 2002 Distributed Power and Seawater Desalination

April 2, 2002 Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: A Case Study

March 19, 2002 Computers in the Classroom

March 5, 2002 NASA Ames Development Plan

February 19, 2002 Stirling Engines: A New Old Thing

February 5, 2002 The Power of Patents: Lessons from "The 1900 House"

January 22, 2002 Internet Voting in Public Elections

January 8, 2002 Solar Technologies in Nepal, Mongolia and Peru

December 11, 2001 California's Bottleneck? Path 15

October 17,2001 Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley

September 18, 2001 The Renewable Energy Transition

September 4, 2001 The Quakefinder Project

August 7,2001 Fuel Cells For Transportation -- Technology For The Future

June 26, 2001 Environmentally Responsible Living

June 12, 2001 Geothermal Energy

May 29, 2001 Stopping Sprawl into Coyote Valley

April 17, 2001 Towards Global Earthquake Safety

March 20, 2001 BioDiesel

March 6, 2001 Calpine's Metcalf Energy Center

February 6, 2001 Metals Reclamation from Electronic Products

January 23, 2001 National Religious Partnership for the Environment

January 9,2001 Diesel Fuel: Toxic Emissions and Power

December 19, 2000 Developing Models for Energy and Matter

November 9, 2000 Storm Water Pollution: Issues and Abatement

October 24, 2000 The Boundary Between Mind and Matter

September 27, 2000 The Clean Computer Campaign

August 15, 2000 Building the Human Services Community Online

July 18, 2000 The Case Against Human Germline Engineering

June 21, 2000 PRT in Silicon Valley

June 6, 2000 Thinking Differently

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April 25,2000 Personal Rapid Transit

April 11, 2000 Plastics Recycling

March 28, 2000 Robots Through the Ages

March 14, 2000 Computers and Musical Style

February 29, 2000 The Future of Microsoft

January 18, 2000 Communities By Design

January 4, 2000 Cleen n' Green Energy

October 26, 1999 Captology: Computers as Persuasive Technologies

October 12, 1999 An Update on USA/Cuba InfoMed

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August 18, 1999 Trends in Personal Electric Vehicles

June 26, 1999 Women In Technology.

June 8, 1999 Online Postage from E-Stamp Corporation

May 26, 1999 Participatory Design Talk

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