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News and announcements
Mastering the Cosmos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Inaugural CMSS Fellowship recipient Dr. Saulesh Yessenova, Anthropology & Archaeology, spent this last year focusing on her research project "Nuclear Deterrence and Warfare". Below is a distilled article detailing her work.
2023 Faculty of Arts Killam Award winners
Congratulations to the Killam Award winners from the Faculty of Arts
Call for submissions: First Annual Faculty of Arts holiday card
All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit their artwork by Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, 11:59 p.m.
Thank you Dr. Maureen Hiebert
A huge thank you and congratulations to outgoing Acting Director Dr. Maureen Hiebert.
CMSS Research Fellowships - Applications Open
The Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies is glad to invite applications from any faculty member at the University of Calgary for a six-month research fellowship that includes a half-course release during the Fall or Winter semester.
Autonomous weapons in warfare will become more common: UCalgary expert
Maureen Hiebert says the main debate will surround how much human control should be involved with these weapons
In the media
In the News David Perry, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, in Canada Today
Difficult to secure military aircraft landing sites in Sudan for evacuation: Trudeau
In the News David Perry, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, in Canada Today
Ottawa intends “departure assistance” from allies to free captured Canadians from Sudan
In the News David Bercuson, Director Emeritus, CMSS, in The New York Times
Claims of Chinese Election Meddling Put Trudeau on Defensive
In the News The Conversation Canada
Why Russia’s war in Ukraine today is so different from a year ago
In the News Alexander Hill, CMSS, in Outlook Magazine
Explained: How Russian Goals Failed In Ukraine War, What Is It Planning Now, All The Latest Updates
In the News Timothy Choi, doctoral graduand, CMSS in The Toronto Star
Canada and the F-35: What are we buying, and how is it different from last time?
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Neural Netfics
This talk explores the literary significance of the under-recognized contributions that Alan Turing, the progenitor of computer science, made to the field of artificial neural networks, a now pervasive form of AI that deploys simulations of biological neurons.