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Artificial Intelligence for Business
Jay Bellissimo P’20, general manager and chief revenue office for of IBM Watson & Cloud Platform, will explore state-of-the-art developments in AI, including illustrations/case studies of how the cognitive potential of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/artificial-intelligence-for-businessBoy Meets Depression: Confessions of a Depressed Comic
Kevin Breel, author of “Boy Meets Depression,” openly and honestly shares real life experiences, including his own, to expose issues around mental health and provide a look inside the life and mind of a struggling young…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/boy-meets-depression-confessions-of-depressed-comicSymmetric Polyhedra — From Platon to Modern Computational Mathematics
Achill Schürmann, professor of mathematics, will discuss how polyhedras—beautiful geometric constructions pondered since ancient times by both mathematicians and philosophers—have turned over time into powerful computat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/symmetric-polyhedra-%E2%80%94-from-platon-to-modern-computational-mathematicsThe Ever-Changing Music Business
Writer and producer of the 2016 hit song “Shut up and Dance,” Ryan McMahon ’08 will expose all sides of the ever-changing music industry, from writing and producing songs to recording contracts to music streaming servic…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ever-changing-music-businessCan Europe come back in the age of Trump, Merkel, and Macron?
Europe faces severe crisis after crisis: Anemic economic growth, the rise of anti-European sentiment, right and left-wing populism, the Euro and Greek crises, massive immigration, the refugee crisis along with the rise…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/can-europe-come-back-in-age-of-trump-merkel-and-macronHow to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
Imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades…. Lee Alan Dugatkin will recount such a tale: In the depths of Siberia, Soviet scientists jump-started the effort to evolve foxes into dogs to recre…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-tame-fox-and-build-dogDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
From the data we have gathered, can we learn something new about our behaviors and attitudes? Christian Rudder thinks so. As co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, he possesses one of the richest data sets in the world…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dataclysm%C2%A0who-we-are-when-we-think-no-ones%C2%A0lookingWork's Provocative Future
As we head toward a world defined by self-driving cars, drone-powered warfare, and AI-based chat bots, what's left for humans to do? George Anders, writer and contributing editor at Forbes magazine, argues that the worl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/works-provocative-futureEcological Civilization: Is this the answer to fixing China's environment?
China has raised the concept of "Ecological Civilization" to guide future development, which takes the country's ecological capacity and constraints into account. Christine Loh, former under-secretary for the Environmen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ecological-civilization-is-this-answer-to-fixing-chinas-environmentHymns of Wisdom: The Ismaili Ginans of South Asia
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, will introduce the ginans, hymns of wisdom of the South Asia’s Ismaili communities, and their most important themes, including…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hymns-of-wisdom-ismaili-ginans-of-south-asia