Author: chad wellmon
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Turing, Training, and Intelligence
In his 1947 “Lecture to the London Mathematical Society,” Alan Turing writes that the possibilities for how an automatic computing engine (ACE) might be used and manipulated are “immense.” But so too are the challenges posed by demands not only…
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C Thi Nguyen, Value Capture, and the University
Jennifer Szalai just interviewed C Thi Nguyen about his new book The Score. After encountering Nguyen’s work a few years ago, I threw out my draft of After the University and rethought everything. The clarity and energy of his thinking…
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Degrees of Anxiety
This summer I wrote an essay about the idea of college and my experiences leading different projects here at the University of Virginia. “Degrees of Anxiety” was part of symposium on “college” in The Point Magazine. Read it online or…
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