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CSTV movie night: The Star Wars Kid
In 2002, Ghyslain Raza made a fun video of himself playing a Star Wars character. Later the video was posted on the internet without his consent.
It became the first viral video, with enormous consequences for Raza.
In 2022, Raza broke his silence to speak about his experience and reflect on its meaning today.
Join us in E5 6004 @ 7pm on Feb. 15 to watch this documentary as Raza revisits "The Star Wars Kid."
Free admittance! Free popcorn!
The AI tsunami – Where will it take us?
You’re invited to Research Talks, a public event and panel discussion featuring guest speakers Kesha Bodawala - P & P Optica, Evan Jones - Stitch Media, and Sirisha Rambhatla and Will Zhao - University of Waterloo.
CSTV movie night: Surviving progress
Join us to watch and discuss "Surviving progress" a stunning Canadian documentary about technology, growth and collapse!
December 1 @ 7pm in E5 6006.
Free admittance! Free popcorn!
(c) 2011 by the National Film Board of Canada.
Canada and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Project Ploughshares is hosting a virtual workshop focused on Canada, the growing nuclear threat, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
There are nearly 13,000 nuclear weapons in existence today. Each presents an existential, yet preventable, risk. Now is the time for decisive Canadian action toward nuclear abolition.
CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots
Join us to watch and discuss a performance of Karel Čapek's (1920) play "Rossum's Universal Robots," the work that introduced the word and concept of "robot" to the world.
When robots rise up, will humanity fall?
See you on November 10 at 7pm in E5 6006. Free admittance & free popcorn!
This performance is a presentation of Battle Damage Theater.
Misinformation: AI for evil and for good
Critical Tech Talk: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination—Leveraging the Machinery of Value Sensitive Design
Join us on October 28 at 4pm, in-person or virtually via livestream, for Critical Tech Talk 4: Batya Friedman!
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.
ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES “Don’t Look Up! Understanding Difficult Technological Truths"
Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?
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