Calendar of Events

As Stanisław Lem once put it, some technologies are instrumental, providing a means through which to change the world, but others are ultimately existential in significance, revealing aspects of reality previously unknowable and thus changing how intelligence knows the world and comprehends itself. Computation, both discovered and invented, is both instrumental and existential.   Antikythera […]

Prof. Carlo Vecce, a renowned scholar in the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, recently made a surprising discovery about Leonardo's mother Caterina. Vecce will talk about his novel "Caterina's Smile" which recounts, through a combination of fact and imaginative fiction, the story of how Caterina was kidnapped from the Caucasus area of Central […]