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>X-Sender: mfarber@mail.interport.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 >Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:56:55 -0400 >To: farber@cis.upenn.edu >From: Manny Farber <manny@manny.com> >Subject: Fwd: [RRE]Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About > > >>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:24:10 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu> >>To: "Red Rock Eater News Service" <rre@lists.gseis.ucla.edu> >>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rre-off@lists.gseis.ucla.edu> >> >> >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). >>Send any replies to the original author, listed in the From: field below. >>You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use >>the "redirect" command. For information on RRE, including instructions >>for (un)subscribing, see http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html >>or send a message to requests@lists.gseis.ucla.edu with Subject: info rre >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> >>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:30:33 -0400 (EDT) >>From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu> >>Subject: Don Knuth, speaker for the Fall "God and Computers" series >> >>The "God and Computers" project continues in Fall 1999! We will >>have, however, a slightly different format and present our >>speaker for the Fall, >> >> >> DONALD E. KNUTH >> >> Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming >> Stanford University >> >> >>Don will give a series of six lectures about interactions between >>faith and computer science. As always, the lectures are free and >>open for the public. They will be held at MIT 34-101 (50 Vassar >>ST) on Wednesdays. We will start at 4:15 pm with refreshments, >>the talks and discussions begin at 4:30 pm. The lecture series >>is entitled, >> >> >> THINGS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST RARELY TALKS ABOUT >> >> >> Lecture 1 (October 6): Introduction. >> Why I am unqualified to give these lectures. >> Why the lectures might be interesting anyway. >> The 3:16 project, a turning point in my life. >> >> Lecture 2 (October 13): Randomization and Religion. >> The advantages of unbiased sampling as a way to gain insight >> into a complicated subject. >> Dangers to avoid when using this approach. >> >> Lecture 3 (October 27): Language Translation. >> How to translate Bible verses without knowing Hebrew or Greek. >> The surprising rewards of such attempts, even though the task >> is difficult or impossible. >> >> Lecture 4 (November 3): Aesthetics. >> Scientific work as an artistic endeavor. >> The deep influence that beautiful presentation can have on >> our understanding of texts. >> Illustrations by many of the world's greatest masters of >> calligraphy. >> >> Panel Discussion (November 17) >> >> Lecture 5 (December 1): Glimpses of God. >> What I think I learned about God from the 3:16 project. >> What I think I learned about theology from the 3:16 project. >> The difference between the two. >> >> Lecture 6 (December 8): God and Computer Science. >> Computer programmers as creators of new universes. >> Computational complexity as a way to approach questions of >> free will and omnipotence. >> Other concepts of computer science that may give insights >> about divinity. >> >> >>- -- >>Dr.theol. Anne Foerst >> >>MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology SQ, # 934 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> +1 / 617 / 253-6532 >> >>Center for the Study of Values Harvard Divinity School >>in Public Life 56 Francis Ave >> Cambridge, MA 02138 >> >>http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/ >> >
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