View some of our and others' previous events.
Past Events
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August 28, 2019
Emerging Media Lab summer showcase
Emerging Media Lab is hosting its summer showcase on August 28th from 2-5PM at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, featuring 4 of our flagship projects this semester, as well as 3 projects from the Hackspace for Innovation and Visualization in Education (HIVE) and 1 project from UBC IT! Students,…
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July 26, 2019
Department of Computer Science talk: Towards Verified Stochastic Variational Inference for Probabilistic Programs
Image by xresch from Pixabay
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June 28, 2019
Towards Learning with Brain Efficiency
Modern computing systems are plagued with significant issues in efficiently performing learning tasks. In this talk, I will present a new brain-inspired computing architecture. It supports a wide range of learning tasks while offering higher system efficiency than the other existing…
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June 19, 2019
Language Science Talks: How prenatal experience shapes speech perception
RSVP HERE. Language Sciences affiliate member and CNRS senior research scientist at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception Dr. Judit Gervain will present this Language Science Talks event. Abstract extract: The talk will examine the hypothesis that this prenatal experience with…
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June 17, 2019
Department of Linguistics colloquium: The acquisition of lexical tone by Cantonese-speaking children
Previous studies showed early production precedes late perception in Cantonese tone acquisition, contrary to the general principle that perception precedes production in child language, while some recent studies demonstrated that Cantonese tone acquisition is a protracted process. How production…
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June 5, 2019
Congress: Assessing Language Performance: A showcase of established and innovative tools to assess different language skills across languages
Credit: Hover Collective
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June 5, 2019
Listening to the Land: A Community Engaged Sound Installation
This exhibition features a series of Indigenous language and storytelling sound installations focused on local and regional Indigenous languages produced at the Community Engaged Documentation and Research Space (CEDR), new UBC infrastructure currently being developed by Dr. David…
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June 5, 2019
Congress: Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous Language Revitalization, and Applied Linguistics: a Critical Dialogue
Photo credit: Hover Collective
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June 3, 2019
Congress: Valuing Partial Language Competencies in Language Education
Credit: Hover Collective