A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World War II codebreaker gave in 1951 foreseeing the rise of...
On the Yale campus, the year 2023 was marked by transformative change.
New campus initiatives set the stage for the cross-disciplinary research necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and the space to do it. A groundbreaking research...
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world.
His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired Prum to read aesthetic philosophers to get a better...
Well before the rise of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech behemoths, philosopher Luciano Floridi contemplated the ethical and conceptual implications of the information age, producing work that presciently addressed the world-changing benefits and...
Every year, Yale’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition provides Ph.D. students with an opportunity to step away from the fog of their dissertation research and tell the world exactly what it is they are trying to achieve.
In three minutes.
The competition,...
A brightly colored patchwork quilt displayed in the new ISOVIST gallery at Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), obviously the work of a skilled hand, originated as an algorithm.
The quilt, which was handsewn by Robin Kingsbury, is a...