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On Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m., join the Coronado Public Library as we welcome UCSD’s Dr. Terrance Sejnowski who will share insights into the future impacts of AI on education and learning. Classrooms, teachers, lessons, homework, reading, writing, and arithmetic look the same today as they did when we were children, what will the future bring to education? How will artificial intelligence (AI) and personal social robots shape the next generation? This lecture is based his personal experiences with "Learning How to Learn," a wildly popular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), with 6 million viewers in 200 countries, his insights from how brains learn, and the recent developments in AI described in his book ChatGPT and the Future of AI. This free lecture is open to all. Terry Sejnowski received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, where he was a Professor of Biophysics. He currently holds the Francis Crick Chair at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation. He also is the founding editor-in-chief of Neural Computation and is currently President of the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation Board. In 1992, Sejnowski co-authored "The Computational Brain" with Patricia Churchland and in 2002 the book "Liars, Lovers, and Heroes; What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are with Steven R. Quartz." His book, "The Deep Learning Revolution," was published by the MIT Press in 2018. Visit: https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/summer-festival-hold-44617

The La Jolla Theatre Ensemble and the San Diego Shakespeare Society are proud to present Rob Crisell’s one-person show: "RED, WHITE & BARD!" Just in time for America’s 250th Birthday, his hilarious new show –"RED, WHITE, & BARD!"– celebrates America’s long love-affair with William Shakespeare, through wit, humor, audience participation, clever props, and entertaining slides. He also brings some of the Bard’s most iconic characters and speeches to life — including from "Hamlet," Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. If you’re looking for scholarly analysis, head to graduate school. For everyone else, there’s "RED, WHITE & BARD!" $10-15 Suggested Donation

A dress up story time! Come in your princess dresses, ribbons, sparkles, capes, bows, wings or whatever makes you feel most magical. Get creative with a princess craft! Grab a blanket and enjoy Story Time out in the park!

Here’s where the writer gets to work magic through language. Want to create an atmosphere that evokes an emotion in the reader? Do it through description, through setting, through the use of the senses, and the diction of your story. The right choice of words and you move a reader from feeling safe and secure to biting her nails; change the structure of your sentences and take the reader from relaxed to excited. In this workshop, we’ll explore techniques that create atmosphere, generate mood, and evoke emotion, with lots of in-workshop exercises you can apply to your own writing. For all writers—fiction and memoir/nonfiction. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

Belly Up Presents: James Marriott - World Tour Having scored a Top 20 hit with his debut album "Are We There Yet?," Brighton's James Marriott looks poised to achieve a whole lot more as he prepares to release his second album, "Don’t Tell The Dog" later this year. After its first single, "I Don’t Want To Live Like This," went straight to #1 on the Official Singles Downloads Chart, James now shares the follow-up "Toothache" along with its official video. James’s live shows achieve a rare cathartic communion between the artist and his ever-expanding following. Although he has completed fewer than 100 shows so far, he has already played The Royal Albert Hall with Jake Bugg, stormed the Reading and Leeds Festivals, and sold-out his biggest headline show to date at KOKO. Next month will see James play his sold-out debut North American tour, while his UK festival schedule is taking shape with the Neighbourhood Weekender, Live At Leeds In The Park and TRNSMT already confirmed. Doors: 7 p.m. James Marriott on YouTube / Instagram

Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding their work with third-party evaluators to make their products safer. But questions abound about the state of the science as well as the field's independence.

The naming request was supported by the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee, and is the first use of the port's naming policy — which requires historical and cultural significance as criteria.

Join us for our upcoming Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture — "Vision for a Thriving Ocean" — with Stuart Sandin, Director of CMBC. For 25 years, the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) has championed a holistic, interdisciplinary approach that brings together the natural and social sciences to educate future leaders and advance research in marine biodiversity and conservation. As CMBC celebrates two-and-a-half decades of unique contributions to a healthy and thriving ocean planet, its ongoing work has never been more critical. Join current CMBC Director Professor Stuart Sandin as he shares his vision for the Center’s future and how interdisciplinary collaboration helps shape innovative solutions that conserve marine ecosystems and the life they support. Seating is limited and lectures often sell out, so advanced registration is strongly recommended. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 7 p.m. Birch Aquarium at Scripps on Facebook / Instagram

Millions of people in Europe stepped outside Wednesday to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal.

National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir joins Library Shop SD and Meet Cute Bookshop to celebrate the release of "Empire," the conclusion to the gripping "Heir Duology." She will be in conversation with fellow New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. The gripping conclusion to the action-packed, ruthless, and romantic fantasy duology that began with "Heir," from the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award – winning author Sabaa Tahir. A falling empire. An ancient evil. A lost homeland. A lie that could destroy the world. In the crumbling Martial Empire, crown prince Quil Farrar and his aunt, Empress Helene, are losing a war against the vicious Kegari horde. Quil’s armies dwindle, his faith falters, and the woman he loves vanished months ago, leaving him brokenhearted. Torn between his duty to his people and his desire to discover Sirsha’s fate, Quil embarks on a dangerous quest for aid — from the most treacherous of allies. Sirsha Westering finds herself tethered to Div, an ancient evil unleashed by a terrible tragedy. Div delights in tormenting Sirsha, hungering for her magical heart. Even as Sirsha struggles for control of her own fate, she is desperate to shield Quil from Div’s destructive power. But Div won’t release Sirsha without a fight. To earn her freedom, Sirsha must uncover Div’s past — and face horrors in her own. Cero bet-Dafra, former right hand of the Kegari leader, Aiz, now finds himself pitted against her. As Aiz slips further into violence and delusion, Cero must discover if his people have any hope of a future or if they’re condemned to an unending cycle of violence. His journey will force him to confront hidden truths, ancient secrets, and a lie that could destroy the world. In "Empire," Sabaa Tahir returns to the expansive world of fury and vengeance of Heir, weaving a story of legacy and rebellion, loyalty and freedom, and what it means to confront the monsters that lurk within us all. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Sabaa Tahir is a former newspaper editor who grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. Her #1 New York Times bestselling "An Ember in the Ashes" series has been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and the first book in the series was named one of TIME’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Tahir’s contemporary novel, "All My Rage," won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Boston Globe – Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Visit Sabaa online at SabaaTahir.com and follow her on Instagram @SabaaTahir Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of dozens of books for readers of all ages, including "The House of Quiet," the "And I Darken" trilogy, the "Sinister Summer" series, "Star Wars: Padawan," "Hide," "Mister Magic," "Lucy Undying," and "The Fox and the Devil." She lives in San Diego with her family and their surly tortoise, Kimberly. Visit her online at kierstenwhite.com and @authorkierstenwhite on Instagram.