CATEGORIES: Creative Writing, Department Events
Category: Department Events
CATEGORIES: Department Events
Framing AI for Curriculum Reform
You’re invited to attend Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” at 1:10pm on Wednesday, April 17. This presentation will prepare the ground for curriculum reform by providing ways to think about artificial intelligence that are both useful for students and professionally responsible for teachers. The goal is to establish working assumptions about AI … Continue reading Framing AI for Curriculum Reform
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2024 Goldtrap Lecture meet and greet — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
Feel free to come to Ross 212 between 4:15 and 5:15 on Friday, April 12, to ask him questions and learn more about his research. Are humans fundamentally irrational? Is that why so many people commit statistical and logical blunders and fall for fake news, medical quackery, paranormal woo-woo, and conspiracy theories? Is Artificial Intelligence … Continue reading 2024 Goldtrap Lecture meet and greet — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
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2024 Goldtrap Lecture — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
Are humans fundamentally irrational? Is that why so many people commit statistical and logical blunders and fall for fake news, medical quackery, paranormal woo-woo, and conspiracy theories? Is Artificial Intelligence rendering the human mind irrelevant? In this lecture, acclaimed scientist and author Steve Pinker presents an alternative. We humans, after all, have discovered the laws … Continue reading 2024 Goldtrap Lecture — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
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Science with Cyclones
Please join us for the totally fun and interactive “Science with Cyclones” event that English 312 students in the Communicating Science and Public Engagement Course will be hosting on Thursday, April 11th 5:30-7p at Reiman Gardens. The event is FREE and open to the public… and will be a great time… with Cy as a special … Continue reading Science with Cyclones
CATEGORIES: Department Events, RPC
Society for Technical Communication Guest Speaker
Sharon Wiederanders, an RCPC alum who works for Garmin, will be the guest speaker at our next STC meeting on Tuesday, April 9, at 5:30 in Ross 212. Everyone is welcome!
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Grad Connections Movie Night
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Emerging Writer’s Reading Series for March
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Candidate for Assistant Professor OF AI And Writing — Eric York Open Session
THE ROLE OF AI IN HIGHER EDUCATION Join us in a discussion about the key issues and potential approaches for the integration of AI in the Department of English and at Iowa State, from the candidate’s approach to AI integration to ongoing AI initiatives at ISU.
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