6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Public Lecture: Bias and the Language of AI April 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Public Lecture: Bias and the Language of AI When Robots Rule the World Series Free Lecture at the Portage County Public Library James Berry and Vera Klekovkina, "Bias and the Language of AI" is a discussion of how automatic speech recognition and automatic translation still have significant race and gender biases for humans, thus posing a question of how future service robots will...
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together April 13, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together How can higher education and local institutions cooperate in building a better Stevens Point? Community members are invited to a panel presented by the UWSP Center for the Small City. "Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together" will feature UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Thomas Gibson, community development leaders, government officials, and members of...
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Resisting Censorship: The Rise of Banned Books and the Importance of Protecting the Freedom to Read and Learn April 25, 2023 @ 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Resisting Censorship: The Rise of Banned Books and the Importance of Protecting the Freedom to Read and Learn Recent policies and legislation across the United States have made the reading and teaching of banned books more difficult for classrooms and libraries. In 2021, the American Library Association reported 729 attempts to censor library resources, targeting 1,597 books, the highest number of attempted book bans in more than 20 years. This poses a number...
April 13, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together
April 25, 2023 @ 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Resisting Censorship: The Rise of Banned Books and the Importance of Protecting the Freedom to Read and Learn