Join us to watch Things to Come
the science fiction classic by H.G. Wells,
author of The time machine and The war of the worlds!
Oct. 6 @ 7pm in E5 6006.
Free admittance—Free popcorn!
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).
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).
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).
Artificial intelligence is the cutting edge in decision-making and computer science. However, there is also the sense that AI is nothing more than a buzzword used in almost every facet of our lives right now. Given the current buzz surrounding AI, it is relevant to ask: what are the limits of AI? In many instances, such as with military technology, the availability of artificial intelligence is what made the technology possible in the first place. Can we expect systems to achieve decision-making capabilities and performances that are better than human across domains?
Monday, November 8, 2021, 5 PM | Theatre of the Arts, University of Waterloo, in-person and livestreamed | REGISTER
The Centre for Security Governance is hosting the fourth Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society on December 10, 2019.
Combining 2 Cultures (C2C) is an annual conference for undergraduate students pursuing or interested in interdisciplinary studies. The conference serves as an epicentre of growth for an internationally represented interdisciplinary community by allowing students of unique backgrounds to make connections with one another.
What does it mean to think of drones as a culture? In this exhibition, Sara Matthews employs installation and and social documentary practices to provoke a dialogue about the logistics of drone technologies and our intimate relations with them.
"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.