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From Smarter Planet To Wiser Earth: Re-Envisioning Relationships Between AI Technologies, Human Society And Natural World

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Gay Cox, Professor, College of the Atlantic How will Artificial Intelligence programs like ChatGPT transform the ways knowledge and belief are created and used to structure the economic, political, and technological systems that dominate our world? What are ways of making these systems empower and liberate people rather than exploit and oppress? How do we […]

Commercialization Training Series: Intellectual Property Boot Camp (online)

Online

Ever wonder if you could get a patent for your innovation? What about trademarks and copyrights? How do you determine the value of your intellectual property? IP can be a valuable asset, and its project helps to foster innovation and R&D by ensuring that inventors can reap the benefits of their work. During IP Bootcamp, […]

Event Series Silent Sky

Silent Sky

Versant Power Astronomy Center 167 Rangeley Rd., Orono

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. […]

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