<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/">https://sites.google.com/view/</a><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/adaconcordia2020/home">adaconcordia2020/home</a><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.68877cdef521b6e3_4"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.3a6dc63127b4b0a2_4"><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><a>Concordia University</a> Celebrates</p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Lato"><b>Ada Lovelace Day </b></span><span style="font-family:Lato"><b>2020</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center">October  13th online at 6PM (18:00) EDT (GMT -4)</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><small dir="ltr" style="display:block"><br></small></div><div><small dir="ltr" style="display:block">The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/concordiacognitivescience/events/admin/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_admin_bar%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22page_id%5C%22%3A653795871342326%7D%7D]%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline"></span></a><a>Centre for Cognitive Science</a> and the <span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.concordia.ca/sgs/programs/individualized.html" target="_blank">INDI Program </a></span> at <span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.concordia.ca/" target="_blank">Concordia University,</a></span> present our first celebration of <a href="https://findingada.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline"></span></a><a>Ada Lovelace Day</a>.</small></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.8210b8c111ee1a9_0"><div><div><ul><li><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://mypage.concordia.ca/mathstat/lpopovic/" target="_blank">Lea Popovic</a></span> (Concordia: Math and Stats): <i>A Brief Introduction to Ada Lovelace</i> </li><li><span style="font-family:Lato"><b>Invited</b></span> <span style="font-family:Lato"><b>Speaker</b></span><span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.ladlab.com/barner" target="_blank">David Barner</a></span><span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span>UC San Diego: Psychology, Linguistics, Math and Science Education<span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">)</span>: <span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><i>Mechanical Paths to Mathematical Understanding: A celebration of Ada Lovelace</i></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:30pt"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Please <span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUK1D71G9UJIYOFHYPiCx8adNTK_swGmoD6fOyhLEsJMPdjA/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">register</a></span> for live event on Zoom and YouTube (you will receive a link before the event)<br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:30pt"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px">Quarantine Bonus: <span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/the-science-of-parenting" target="_blank">Barner's EdX Parenting course</a></span></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.38e03399c21ac9fc_13"><div><div><p dir="ltr">Abstract: <span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> In her commentary on the "Analytical Engine</span>"<span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
 created by her friend and colleague Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, 
sometimes called the world's first computer programmer, distinguished 
between the mechanical and rational labors of mathematics. Also, 
Lovelace was the first to recognize the power of computing devices to 
transcend mathematical calculations, to support reasoning about any 
domain of human experience. Lovelace's discourse poses the question of 
how clearly we can distinguish between mechanical and rational 
processes. Also, it raises the question of how each originates in the 
human mind, and what causal relations might exist between purely 
mechanical computations and moments of rational insight that lead humans
 to derive axioms, notice analogies between different representational 
formats (e.g., geometry and algebra), or to create new representational 
formats altogether. In this talk, I argue that the mechanical labors of 
the mind - particularly in the case of mathematics - allow humans to 
discover rational insights that otherwise would not be available to 
them, and that our most profound mathematical discoveries hinge upon 
learning from, and about, the mechanical rules of thought. To make this 
case, I present evidence from children's acquisition of counting 
procedures, and how this learning fuels their discovery that numbers, 
space, and time are infinite. I also argue that the logic that underpins
 these computations is fundamentally linguistic, and depends on the 
computational engine provided by human natural language.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.6d9bbe6f97977b43_0"><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt;padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.6b017e3c5b2b2ff9_3"><div><div><small dir="ltr" style="display:block;text-align:center">Contact:  <span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:cognitivescience@concordia.ca" target="_blank">cognitivescienceAE?concordia.ca</a></span> </small><small id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.z60ejuiyxlvy" dir="ltr" style="display:block;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:center;text-indent:0px">Thanks to everyone working during quarantine to keep us healthy, safe and fed.</small></div><div><small id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.z60ejuiyxlvy" dir="ltr" style="display:block;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:center;text-indent:0px"><br></small></div><div><small id="m_-3423573564597991963m_374989357891578701gmail-m_3792949886453175459gmail-h.z60ejuiyxlvy" dir="ltr" style="display:block;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;text-align:center;text-indent:0px"><br></small></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/adaconcordia2020/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/adaconcordia2020/home</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Charles Reiss <br>Director, Centre for Cognitive Science</div><div>Professor, Linguistics Program</div><div>Concordia University<br>FB 1000.11<br>1250 GUY STREET<br>Montreal H3G 1M8<br>Canada<br>514 848-2424 x2491 (office: email is best)<br><a href="mailto:acmebalkanica@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.reiss@concordia.ca</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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