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Technology in Politics
When: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:30am-12:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 320 Presenter: Matt Klaber Topics will include: ways in which technology is applied to political…
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Chaos & Culture FTS Teach “Fractivities”
The students in Tom LoFaro’s First Term Seminar, Chaos & Culturewere assigned the task of developing and presenting a classroom activity to teach a…
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Building a File System From Scratch
When: Monday, November 20, 2011, 2:30-3:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 321 Presenter: Mark Gritter Designing a new file system isn’t a task to be undertaken…
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LoFaro to Host Minicourse at Joint Math Meeting in Boston
Tom LoFaro will be hosting the MAA mini course Teaching Differential Equations with Modeling at the Joint Math Meetings in Boston January 4-7, 2012. Tom…
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Modeling Actual Evapotranspiration: Using Airborne Remote Sensing to Analyze Agricultural Water Stress
When: November 16, 11:30-12:20pm Where: Olin Hall, Room 320 Presenter: Brandon Furey The objective of the land research group in the NASA Student Airborne Research…
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Screening: IBM’s Watson/DeepQA (David Ferrucci)
When: November 9, 2011, 11:30am-12:30pm Where: Olin Hall, Room 320 We will screen a video of Dr. David A. Ferrucci’s keynote address, “IBM’s Watson/DeepQA,” which…
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Explorations in generative design
Nervous System is a fantastic experimental design studio unlike most others. They use new technologies to reinterpret natural phenomena, prototyping and mass-producing 3d objects such…
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Weighted Graphs, Groups, and 2-Dimensional Topology
When: November 2, 2011, 11:30am-12:30pm Where: Olin Hall, Room 320 Presenter: Prof. Mat Timm of Bradley University A graph is collection of dots, called vertices,…
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Musings on John McCarthy’s Death
Although John McCarthy died only two days ago, enough words have already been written to render any more superfluous. Yet I can’t resist some personal…
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What Elections are Worth Recounting?
When: Wednesday, October 19, 11:30am – 12:20pm Where: Olin Hall 320 Presenter: Max Hailperin Minnesota law provides for publicly-funded recounts of close elections. This raises…
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