Summer Potpourri III

Aug 5 — Exploring Emotional Intelligence
“Feel your feelings” doesn’t always cut it. Have you ever felt feelings that you didn’t know how to properly express to yourself or to another? This lecture explores the difference between having emotions and growing our emotional intelligence, and how to communicate in an emotionally intelligent way.

Aug 12 — The History of AI and Practical Applications
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we work and live. This course provides an overview of the history of AI from its early beginnings in the 1940s to the powerful, practical applications available today. We’ll learn how AI has evolved from theory to reality through innovations in machine learning and neural networks. Discover how AI can help save time by writing papers, summarizing articles, creating book reviews, analyzing images and more. An introduction to hands-on tools will allow you to automate rote tasks and unlock AI’s potential to augment human intelligence.

Aug 19 — Your Sikh Neighbors 

Shauna Singh Baldwin is a writer whose novels and stories feature people of the Sikh faith living in India, Canada and the United States. She worships at gurdwaras in Brookfield and Oak Creek. Yes, that Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, where in 2012, a neo-nazi shooter killed seven people and himself. After that shooting, Shauna and other bilingual Sikhs in the Milwaukee area began an (uncharacteristic) outreach effort to introduce non-Sikhs to the tenets and beliefs that guide those professing the fifth largest religion in the world. This presentation is a step in that direction.