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SUMMARY:Computational Agroecology: Rethinking Agriculture with State Space
 s - Barath Raghavan
DTSTART:20230929T120500Z
DTEND:20230929T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Agriculture has long been central to human civilization. Moder
 n farming practices developed in a long stable period\, but that era is no
 w over due to climate change\, pest and pathogen evolution\, topsoil loss\
 , and fossil fuel depletion. Computing has been used to optimize agricultu
 ral systems as-is\, but seldom to rethink agriculture itself to meet these
  challenges. In this talk\, I discuss a way of reconceptualizing agricultu
 re using state spaces. I explore how this meta-systematic approach may all
 ow us to design new productive\, sustainable\, multi-functional\, and site
 -specific farming systems and reconcile approaches such as precision agric
 ulture and agroecology that are often at odds.\n\nBarath Raghavan is an as
 sociate professor of computer science at USC and co-founder of INVISV. Bef
 ore joining USC\, he spent many years in engineering and research. Previou
 sly he led the engineering team at Nefeli Networks\, was a senior staff re
 searcher at ICSI Berkeley\, was CTO of a social-impact nonprofit\, develop
 ed networked systems at Google and taught complexity theory at Williams Co
 llege. His work spans an equally diverse range of areas including Internet
  architecture\, sustainable agriculture\, and network security and privacy
 . He received his PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego in 2009 and hi
 s BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 20
 02. He has received a number of paper awards including from ACM SIGCOMM\, 
 USENIX/ACM NSDI\, ACM DEV\, ACM CHI\, and the IRTF.
LOCATION:FW 11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.z
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