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For the information of those attending their first Congress on Coastal Engineering, I should explain briefly the functions and organization of the Council on Wave Research. The first of these Congresses was held in Long Beach, California, in 1950 under the auspices of the University of California. There was at that time no permanent organization with the responsibility for focusing attention on this area of scientific and technical work or for arranging subsequent meetings. At the suggestion of the late Professor Boris A. Bakhmeteff, the Engineering Foundation, an agency of the American engineering societies, formed the Council on Wave Research to promote research in the sciences related to coastal engineering and to hold occasional congresses and conferences for the purpose of making the results of both scientific research and professional experience available to practicing engineers .

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Coastal Engineering Proceedings ◽

10.9753/icce.v11.all ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 1 (11) ◽

Author(s):

Morrough P. O'Brien

Keyword(s):

Research Council ◽

Coastal Engineering ◽

University Of California ◽

Engineering Research ◽

Wave Research ◽

American Society ◽

The University ◽

Civil Engineers

The Council on Wave Research of the Engineering Foundation was the sponsor of the first nine conferences on Coastal Engineering. This Council was abolished and was replaced in 1964 by the Coastal Engineering Research Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers. However, in spite of the change of name and affiliation there has been no discontinuity in either the activity of the Council or its management, which continues to function under the able guidance of the Secretary, Professor J. W. Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Coastal Engineering Proceedings ◽

10.9753/icce.v1.0 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 0 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. W. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Civil Engineering ◽

Coastal Engineering ◽

Long Beach ◽

Parent Organization ◽

Separate Branch ◽

Wave Research ◽

The Subject ◽

Reliable Design ◽

The Many ◽

The University

The Conference on Coastal Engineering at Long Beach was conceived originally as a local meeting of engineers and scientists interested in shoreline problems and was sponsored by the University of California. It early became evident that there was widespread interest in the subject and that the program should be planned on a more ambitious scale. The aim was to aid engineers by summarizing the present state of the art and science related to the design and planning of coastal works rather than to present a series of original scientific contributions. Starting from a rather comprehensive outline, invitations were issued to recognized authorities to report on specific phases of the subject, and the authors cooperated splendidly both in their treatment of the subjects assigned and in their avoidance of overlapping other subjects. Although much remains to be done in the way of developing reliable design methods, the series of papers presented at the conference and published in this volume do represent a rather thorough summary of coastal engineering as now practiced. Engineers engaged in the design of coastal works have had available to them a large number of papers dealing with various phases of the science related to their problems, but proper dealing with design were limited in number and scope. Only a few books on coastal engineering have been published. The quality and scope of the papers and the need for a comprehensive and modern treatment of the subject convinced the sponsors of the conference that publication in a single volume was desirable rather than piecemeal in the scientific and technical journals. The newly-formed Council on Wave Research secured funds to underwrite the publication costs from its parent organization, the Engineering Foundation. A word about the term "Coastal Engineering" is perhaps in order here. It is not a new or separate branch of engineering and there is no implication intended that a new breed of engineer, and a new society, is in the making. Coastal Engineering is primarily a branch of Civil Engineering which leans heavily on the sciences of oceanography, meteorology, fluid mechanics, electronics, structural mechanics, and others. However, it is also true that the design of coastal works does involve many criteria which are foreign to other phases of civil engineering and the novices in this field should proceed with caution. Along the coastlines of the world, numerous engineering works in various stages of disintegration testify to the futility and wastefulness of disregarding the tremendous destructive forces of the sea. Far worse than the destruction of insubstantial coastal works has been the damage to adjacent shorelines caused by structures planned in ignorance of, and occasionally in disregard of, the shoreline processes operative in the area. The Council on Wave Research takes this opportunity to thank the authors of the papers and the many others who assisted in organization of the conference and in the preparation of this volume for publication.

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A Note on the Younger Bolton

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/977689 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 421-423

Author(s):

Andrew F. Rolle

Keyword(s):

University Of California ◽

Late Professor ◽

Historical Scholarship ◽

Long Life ◽

The University

There have been numerous well-deserved tributes written recently about the late Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton. There can be no doubt that his work raised the standards and scope of western American historical scholarship to new heights. The development of a broadly viewed concept of the historical unity of the Americas was largely his own contribution. His long life (eighty-two years) and his persistent devotion to studies, both detailed and wide in scope, earned Bolton great prestige. At the University of California he nurtured a veritable “school” of California historians. A former student speaks of his remarkable achievements as those of “the most prolific of western historians both in his own writings and in the students whose work he guided….” Another of his one hundred doctoral fellows calls Bolton’s a career of “matchless enthusiasm and perseverance.”

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Coastal Engineering Proceedings ◽

10.9753/icce.v6.0 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

pp. 0

Author(s):

J. W. Johnson

Keyword(s):

National Science Foundation ◽

Coastal Engineering ◽

Corps Of Engineers ◽

University Of Florida ◽

National Science ◽

Wave Research ◽

The University ◽

Title Pages

This conference was sponsored jointly by the Council on Wave Research and the University of Florida The National Science Foundation assisted by making a grant to pay the travel expenses of some of the foreign authors. Appreciation is expressed to the University of Florida Coastal Engineering Laboratory and to the Jacksonville District of the Corps of Engineers for photographs supplied to illustrate the cover and the section title pages of this publication.

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A Guide to the Study of Medieval History. By Louis John Paetow, late Professor of Medieval History in the University of California. Revised Edition. [Prepared under the Auspices of the Mediaeval Academy of America.] (New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. 1931. Pp. xvii, 643. $6.00)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/37.2.296 ◽

1932 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

University Of California ◽

Medieval History ◽

Late Professor ◽

The University

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Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions at Ten Years: Reflections on a Movement on the Rise

Monthly Review ◽

10.14452/mr-067-02-2015-06_4 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Max Ajl

Keyword(s):

Index Volume ◽

Barack Obama ◽

Public Affairs ◽

University Of California ◽

Long Beach ◽

The Real ◽

Monthly Review ◽

The World ◽

The University ◽

Real Target

<div class="bookreview">Rich Wiles, editor, <em>Generation Palestine</em> (London: Pluto Press, 2013), 256 pages, $24, paperback.</div>When in March 2012, Barack Obama paused briefly from approving orders for drone killings of Pakistani and Yemeni villagers, in order to reassure the attendees at the annual gala of the AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) that, "when there are efforts to boycott or divest from Israel, we will stand against them," the real target of his declaration was elsewhere: the myriad grassroots organizers across the world who have made the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns unignorable. Their mounting influence has provoked efforts to declare them anti-Semitic or illegal from London to Long Beach. In fact, the series of victories across the University of California system has so annoyed its managers that they have hauled in the Caesar of domestic repression, Janet Napolitano, to deal with campus activists. Obama's declaration of support for Israeli colonialism had a simple message to those many activists: back down, because Washington will not.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-2" title="Vol. 67, No. 2: June 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

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Conference: Morphological, Natural, Analog and Other Unconventional Forms of Computing for Cognition and Intelligence, Berkeley 2019

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2020047022 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Marcin J. Schroeder ◽

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Keyword(s):

International Society ◽

Social Practice ◽

Scientific Research ◽

University Of California ◽

Philosophical Reflection ◽

Natural Analog ◽

The University

The leading theme of the 2019 Summit of International Society for the Study of Information held 2–6 June 2019 at The University of California at Berkeley was the question “Where is the I in AI and the meaning of Information?” The question addresses one of the central issues not only for scientific research and philosophical reflection, but also for technological, economic, and social practice. The Conference “Morphological, Natural, Analog, and Other Unconventional Forms of Computing for Cognition and Intelligence” (MORCOM 2019) was focused on this theme from the perspective of unconventional forms of computing. The present paper, written by the organizers of the conference, reports the objectives of MORCOM 2019 and provides an overview of the contributions.

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Buddhism and Cognitive Science: How Can the Dialogue Move Forward?

10.31231/osf.io/bnmqa ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Evan Thompson

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Human Experience ◽

Buddhist Philosophy ◽

University Of California ◽

Keynote Lecture ◽

Behavioural Effects ◽

The Mind ◽

The University

This paper is the text of a keynote lecture for the conference "Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science" at the University of California, Berkeley, April 25, 2014. The main proposition is that the Buddhism-cognitive science encounter needs to be fundamentally reoriented in order to have a chance of becoming a genuine dialogue. At present, the encounter takes its direction from scientific research on meditation and gives primacy to the measurable biological and behavioural effects of meditation practices in controlled experimental and clinical situations. Although this research is worthwhile, it is neither the same as nor sufficient for a dialogue between Buddhism and cognitive science about the mind. I argue that the Buddhism cognitive science encounter should take its direction from philosophy and give primacy to the constitution of meaning in human experience. Buddhist philosophy especially must be central to this dialogue.

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