The Colloquium will publish up to three talks a week on YouTube. Talks will be announced on the website and via our mailing list. Over the course of the Quarter, enrolled students should watch at least 10 EE380 lectures and complete an assignment for each. The choice of which 10 lectures to watch is left as an exercise.

We are just beginning to see the pipeline of talks beginning to fill during Week Three of Autunm 2020. Students who are anxious to get started can choose any of the archived EE380 talks, watch them, and add comments to their journal. Some favorites are:

• Coming Attractions: Death or Utopia in the next three decades.
• Partisan Gerrymandering and the Supreme Court: The Role of Social Science.
• Data Analytics at the Exascale for Free Electron Lasers Project

Supreme Court hearing Oracle v. Google API Copyright Disputes October 7, 2020. Ars Technica has a good summary. Several EE380 talks address the various issues:

• Fight over the Law of Software APIs & stories from Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Oracle v. Google: Are Java APIs Copyrightable?

The Internet of Sensors. The folks at Purpleair have agreed to give a talk about their approach to wide area measurement of air quality. A small number of people can attend the recording virtually as discussants and can ask questions. If you would like to be invited, send an email request to allison@stanford.edu. You do not need to be enrolled in the EE380 class to be a discussant.

Burning Man and the Pandemic (tentative title). Burning Man has been a radical ritual gathering of the counterculture for nearly 20 years. This year the event was moved to cyberspace in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A panel of burners will discuss the impact of Burning Man and discuss the effectiveness of the move to a virtual playa. A small number of people can attend the recording virtually as discussants and can ask questions. If you would like to be invited, send an email request to allison@stanford.edu. You do not need to be enrolled in the EE380 class to be a discussant.

How To Build A Semiconductor Company is scheduled to be recorded on October 16th. A panel from Silicon Catalyst will explain the incubator structure they have in place to enable new hardware startups to morf an idea into a company with a working initial product. A small number of people can attend the recording virtually as discussants and can ask questions. If you would like to be invited, send an email request to allison@stanford.edu. You do not need to be enrolled in the EE380 class to be a discussant.

SPEAKER AND TALK PROPOSALS

If you would like to give a EE380 talk or would like to suggest a speaker or topic, please email allison@stanford.edu. Most talks are invited, but we are always interested in volunteers. We review all proposals and issue invitations as we deem appropriate.