Spears extend our reach. Maps extend our spatial memory. Telephones extend our voices. So what does AI extend? AI isn’t magic; it’s the latest layer in a long history of technologies that enhance human abilities. We’ll explore how tools evolve from human needs like navigation and communication, and then map how modern AI systems actually work -- from physics and hardware all the way up to human meaning-making.

Learn a cool new way of thinking about programming with a unique language—Haskell. Find out what scary words like “declarative”, “purely functional”, and “lazy evaluation” mean and have fun writing programs.

Interested in learning how languages evolve around time? Wondered what remains fixed and what varies across different languages? Want to try your hand at some linguistic puzzles? Come by to our workshop on Linguistics 101!