Join Dr. Lennart Nacke and Dr. Daniel Harley on October 28th to learn how engaging narratives can be used to enhance audience experiences when pitching your ideas.
Please join us for Abolishing property as architectural care, the second of five conversations on the theme of attention, with speakers Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, and Thandi Loewenson, Royal College of Art. Their short presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ella den Elzen, University of Waterloo.
IQC presents Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Kayleigh Platz In The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred
What can a graduate degree do for you?
Join our engineering departments from November 2-4, 2021 as they host Ask me Anything events for graduate programs.
If you are considering a graduate degree, this is a great opportunity to:
Please join us for Building a domestic revolution, the third of five conversations on the theme of attention, with speakers Jennifer Chan, Department of Imaginary Affairs, Sakiko Sugawa, Centre for Reproductive Labor, and Melanie Escaño, FILMIS, FNV Migrant Domestic Workers Union. Their short presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by Tara Bissett, University of Waterloo.
Join us on November 5 as we welcome Alumni from our graduate programs to speak about the impact their graduate degree had on their career path. This is a great event to attend if you are curious about how a graduate degree in engineering can support you!
Date: Friday, November 5
Time: 12pm-1pm EDT
Panelists:
Quantum Today: Simulating Quantum Particles on a Lattice
Please join us for Caretaking, the fourth of five conversations on the theme
of attention, with speakers Annmarie Adams, McGill University, and David
Theodore, McGill University. Their short presentations will be followed by a
discussion moderated by Fiona L. Kenney, PhD student, McGill School of
Architecture.
We’ve all been taught the 3Rs from a young age: reduce, reuse, recycle. But we tend to focus too much on that last R. While recycling is important, less than 10% of plastics in Canada are recycled, which means it does little to reduce how much of it we consume. We may even use more because we think what we’re using is being recycled. This brings us to a missing “R”: reimagine.
Whether we like it or not, whether we realize it or not, applications of Artificial Intelligence have quickly become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. The Google Maps we all rely on, your daily newsfeed, and the conversations you have with Alexa or Siri are all driven by AI. Some worry that over-smart AI-driven computers will one day control us, or that AI-driven social media apps threaten personal welfare, science-based truth and democracy. Other observers maintain that AI will free people from mundane, repetitive tasks and rapidly facilitate rapid socioeconomic development.