Friday, October 28, 2022 12:00 pm
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Current graduate students
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
STV 302: Information Technology & Society—Winter 2023!
What is information technology? How did it get this way? What is it doing for us, or not?
Join your fellow students in STV 302 in Winter 2023 to discuss and explore!
The course is being taught by Cosmin Munteanu, the New Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
STV 305: Technology, Society and the Modern City—Winter 2023!
How did the technology of modern city life arise? How does it all fit together? What is to come?
Join your fellow students in STV 305 in Winter 2023 to discuss and explore!
Prereq: Level 3A or later, or a previous STV course, or permission of the instructor: Cameron Shelley (cshelley@uwaterloo.ca).
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
STV 306: Biotechnology & Society coming this fall!
What are the social implications of the ability to manipulate genes? Join your fellow students in STV 306 in Fall 2022 to discuss and explore!
Prereq: Level 3A or later, or a previous STV course, or permission of the instructor: Cameron Shelley (cshelley@uwaterloo.ca).
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Workshop: Canada and the abolition of nuclear weapons
Project Ploughshares is hosting a free half-day interactive virtual workshop on Canada, the growing nuclear threat, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
There are nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons active today. Each presents an existential, yet preventable, risk. Now is the time for decisive Canadian action towards nuclear abolition.
Thursday June 9, 2022 @ 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (via Zoom).
Monday, November 8, 2021 5:00 pm
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Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits
Critical Tech Talk 1: Nicole Aschoff – The digital frontier and its limits
Monday, November 8, 2021, 5 PM | Theatre of the Arts, University of Waterloo, in-person and livestreamed | REGISTER
Monday, November 25, 2019 12:15 pm
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AI and the Weaponization of Information with DarwinAI CEO Sheldon Fernandez
"Join Darwin AI CEO Sheldon Fernandez (BASc 2001, Computer Engineering) for this timely talk on misinformation in the digital age. Pizza lunch will be provided at 12:15pm, with the talk following at 12:30pm. All students, alumni, staff and faculty are welcome to register for this free event using the registration link below."
More information is available at the event webpage.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Fraud in absentee balloting and e-voting
An "anti-crime" community group called Wake Up Surrey in Surrey, B.C., has alleged that there is a "well-coordinated election fraud scheme underway within the South Asian community" there.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Fake news, hoaxes, lies, misinformation, and errors
Will Oremus at Slate has written an interesting piece on the semantic spread of the term "fake news." The term recently came to prominence over the propagation of fraudulent news items as a tool of persuasion in the recent US election.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Machine readable bikes
I was interested to see in Ben Coxworth's brief piece in New Atlas an item about a gadget designed to make bicycles more visible to radar-equipped cars.
The "Shield TL" is a kind of souped-up rear light that can be attached to a bicycle. Besides the usual blinking red light, the Shield TL has a baffle shaped to create a large reflection when struck by radar of the type used by driving assist technology in high-end vehicles.