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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Friday, November 27, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s University</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Speakers: Fiona Coll, SUNY Oswego (English)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Moderator: Mario Coniglio, Associate Vice President, Academic, University of Waterloo</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Thinking Machines</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In the nineteenth century, mathematician Charles Babbage designed a programmable calculating machine that could execute algorithms with an accuracy and speed surpassing human abilities. Though
Babbage’s mechanical computer remained unbuilt during his lifetime, his interest in developing machine intelligence anticipated twenty-first-century concerns about the promises, limitations, uses, and misuses of machine-generated data. This lecture will consider
how our conceptions of thinking machines have evolved over the past 200 years and what issues may arise in the future. Whatdoes it mean to imagine machines “thinking”? What avenues are made available to us by the power of machine mathematics? And in what ways
do calculating machines challenge our sense that human cognition is an exceptional phenomenon?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Fiona Coll is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Technology at SUNY Oswego. Her work explores the mutual constitution of machine intelligence and human agency in the new mechanical age of the nineteenth century.
She is working on a book project about the appearance and function of the automation in nineteenth-century fictional, scientific, and political writing. Her writing can be found in Victorian Review, University of Toronto Quarterly, and at The Floating Academy.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Bruce Pitman holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Northwestern University and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke University in 1985. His work at UB is marked by academic research and development
of new and innovative graudate and undergraduate programs. He is the author or co-author of more than 70 papers and has been principal investigator or co-investigator on more than $10 million in research and equipment awards. He has conducted research in mathematical
biology and in the field of granular materials; his recent work involves the modeling, computation and analysis of geophysical mass flows.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Note: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Campus Renewal Project is currently underway at St. Jerome’s University; therefore, parking is not available at St. Jerome’s.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">February 26, 2016</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">, <b>The Harmonograph</b>, with John Baez (UCR, Math) and Anita Chowdry (London, Visual Art)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">March 11, 2016</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">, <b>Mathematics, Music, and Visual Art</b>, with Nathan Selikoff (Artist, Programmer) and Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton, Music)</span></div>
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