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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

STV 205: Cybernetics and Society

Cybernetics is the study of the interfaces between humans and machines. This course will present an overview of cybernetics from automation and robotics to prosthetics and wearable computing. The roles of men and women in a post-human era will be discussed along with related themes dealing with gender, cyberspace, politics and popular culture.

Join your fellow students this Spring to discuss and explore!

Instructor: Mark Morley

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

STV 210: The Computing Society

Did Alan Turing really save the world? Why were women the first computers?  How wig-makers inspired a revolution!  Why was Grace Hopper "Man of the Year"?  Did Charles Babbage invent computers?  IBM and the Holocaust? WAT FOR ever or WAT Ever For?

Join your fellow students this Spring to discuss and explore these and other topics in computing history!

Instructor: Scott Campbell 

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).