CDE
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| Origin: | The Garden of Forking Paths, 1944 | ||||||||||
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| Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel | |||||||||||
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The Conference on Diversity in Engineering (CDE) is presented by the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES) in collaboration with universities from across Canada. CDE 2016 aims to encourage discussion and collaboration between engineering students and professionals around the theme of diversity in engineering. The conference will encourage and aid students in developing knowledge surrounding the variety of individuals, cultures and perspectives found within engineering communities to better address the multidisciplinary issues of society. Our goal is to foster an open and welcoming environment that values the differences within engineering groups to improve the quality and inclusivity of engineering design.
CDE 2016: Montreal
As Canada’s second largest city, Montreal serves as a great location for CDE as it presents great cultural diversity and is a growing hub for engineering and innovation. Planned day and night activities throughout the conference will allow delegates to experience firsthand the spirit of the city. McGill’s excellent academic reputation is topped only by its diverse and passionate student body from all walks of life and every corner of the world. CDE 2016 will unite these perspectives with the goal of promoting excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the field of engineering in Canada -- and throughout the world.
Schedule
| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 | REGISTRATION AND WELCOME | 09:30 – 23:30 | REGISTRATION | Registration will begin in the morning for those arriving early and will continue throughout the day. | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:30 | MONTREAL WELCOME EVENT | A few activities will be organized to get delegates acquainted with the city. | ||||||
| 16:00 –17:30 | OPENING REMARKS | We will gather to hear a welcome speech from the hosts. | ||||||
| 18:00 – 22:00 | FOOD CRAWL | We will then explore the city and get a taste of a diverse selection of foods for dinner! | ||||||
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The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La biblioteca total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library" ("Die Universalbibliothek"): There should be at least 5 members serving at the bar at a time; however less are needed in the first hour of Blues Pub on average.
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- Certain examples that Aristotle attributes to Democritus and Leucippus clearly prefigure it, but its belated inventor is Gustav Theodor Fechner, and its first exponent, Kurd Lasswitz. [...] In his book The Race with the Tortoise (Berlin, 1919), Dr Theodor Wolff suggests that it is a derivation from, or a parody of, Ramón Llull's thinking machine [...T]he elements of his game are the universal orthographic symbols, not the words of a language [...] Lasswitz arrives at twenty-five symbols (twenty-two letters, the space, the period, the comma), whose recombinations and repetitions encompass everything possible to express in all languages. The totality of such variations would form a Total Library of astronomical size. Lasswitz urges mankind to construct that inhuman library, which chance would organize and which would eliminate intelligence. (Wolff's The Race with the Tortoise expounds the execution and the dimensions of that impossible enterprise.)
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