“How I Got There: The Scholarly Path to Language and the Rise of the Algorithm”

28mar1:00 pm2:00 pm“How I Got There: The Scholarly Path to Language and the Rise of the Algorithm”

Event Details

Dr. Jeffrey Binder, Senior Data Scientist, Open Raven, and Visting Instructor, New York University

Thurs., 28 March, 1 pm, Location TBA

Dr. Binder has a Phd in English from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (U. of Chicago Press, November 2022), a wide-ranging study of the history of algorithmic thinking from the sixteenth century to the present. He is the creator of The Coleridge Bot, a rhymed poetry generator, and  A Hundred Visions and Revisions, a program that uses a neural language model to rewrite a poem to be about a different topic.

Event contact: Zea Miller, zea.miller@ufl.edu

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Time

03/28/2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm(GMT-04:00)