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  • This course offers an easy-to-follow introduction to artificial intelligence and how it is already part of daily life. You will explore both the helpful side of AI and the moments when it fails or can cause problems. The sessions will show how your ideas, experiences, and values matter in shaping these systems, and how you can take part by giving feedback and guiding improvements. The aim is to give you confidence to use AI in positive ways while also helping it become more fair and inclusive.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Zeynep Orhan

    Capacity Remaining: -23

  • Dates: 4/13/2026 - 4/15/2026

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 2

    Days: M W

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

  • Can Computers Think? Wading Knee-deep into the Sea of Artificial Intelligence

  • Computers have been useful tools for decades, but just in the last few years the sorts of tasks at which they seem to excel are growing by leaps and bounds -- just ask ChatGPT to write a sonnet or discuss some complex philosophical question. The first session of this class will delve into the basic technology behind these amazing capabilities, and the second session will consider just how far it might go in the near future.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: David McKinley

    Capacity Remaining: 23

  • Start Date - End Date: 3/24/2026 - 3/26/2026

    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 2

    Day(s) of Week: Tu Th

  • Location: Robson Ranch Clubhouse

    Room: Ballroom
 

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  • This talk introduces ChatGPT, an advanced conversational AI, in simple and accessible terms. Attendees will learn what ChatGPT is, how it works at a high level, its limitation and—most importantly—how to use it in everyday life. No prior computer background is required except how to use your personal computer.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Larry Sniderman

    Capacity Remaining: -57

  • Dates: 3/30/2026 - 3/30/2026

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

  • Materials Science and Our Daily Lives: Historical Perspectives on Stuff

  • In this session, members will learn the fundamental concepts of materials science through examination of everyday things like toilet paper, plastic combs, razorblades, eyeglasses, aluminum cans, wine glasses, and beer steins to more advanced things like cell phones, computers, cars, aircraft, and satellites. These materials include metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites. All of these things will be discussed with a historical perspective in mind which will highlight the origins of these everyday items, how they changed over time, and how they affect our current lives.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Marcus Young

    Capacity Remaining: 17

  • Start Date - End Date: 4/1/2026 - 4/1/2026

    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Day(s) of Week: W

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

  • Materials Science and Our Daily Lives: Historical Perspectives on Stuff

  • In this session, members will learn the fundamental concepts of materials science through examination of everyday things like toilet paper, plastic combs, razorblades, eyeglasses, aluminum cans, wine glasses, and beer steins to more advanced things like cell phones, computers, cars, aircraft, and satellites. These materials include metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites. All of these things will be discussed with a historical perspective in mind which will highlight the origins of these everyday items, how they changed over time, and how they affect our current lives.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Marcus Young

    Capacity Remaining: 28

  • Start Date - End Date: 4/17/2026 - 4/17/2026

    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Day(s) of Week: F

  • Location: Lantana Community Event Center

    Room: Medium Classroom
 

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  • Robert Finkelman’s scientific research activities have taken him to every corner of the globe, including places that few tourists have visited. Through a non-technical pictorial journey, he will take members to meet princesses and paupers. They will visit countries that no longer exist and countries whose existence is threatened. He’ll introduce members to exotic foods and to incredibly welcoming people who occupy this wild, wonderful world that we live in.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Robert Finkelman

    Capacity Remaining: 0

  • Dates: 3/2/2026 - 3/2/2026

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

  • What Is Artificial Intelligence? Good and Bad Uses of AI

  • This course provides a basic introduction to AI, how they work, their current capabilities, and potential capabilities surpassing human intelligence. The course will provide suggestions on how to create good prompts to obtain useful information from AI tools. The course also covers how AI can solve some of our problems in education, medicine, scientific research, and climate change. It also describes some misuses of AI that can cause serious problems to our culture, and even the future of humanity.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Krishna Kavi

    Capacity Remaining: 50

  • Start Date - End Date: 3/26/2026 - 3/26/2026

    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Day(s) of Week: Th

  • Location: The Point at CC Young

    Room: Auditorium
 

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  • We will review the paleontological, archaeological, genetic and other evidence for the way that our partnership formed. We will talk about how dogs observe and study us, and what their behaviors and responses to our actions say about them and us.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Patrick Parson

    Capacity Remaining: -38

  • Dates: 4/20/2026 - 4/20/2026

    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

  • Who Invented the Computer?

  • It is impossible to identify a single inventor of the machine we call the computer.  There are, however, significant milestones along the road to the creation of this ubiquitous modern tool. One surprising one is found in the early 1800s, marking the work of two intriguing pioneers: Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. This session will explore the inspirations and collaborations of this son of a wealthy banker and daughter of a famous poet, and how their talents and personalities combined to almost create a working computer 100 years before any other became a reality.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: David McKinley

    Capacity Remaining: 83

  • Start Date - End Date: 4/7/2026 - 4/7/2026

    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 1

    Day(s) of Week: Tu

  • Location: The Point at CC Young

    Room: Auditorium
 

  • Who Invented the Computer?

  • It is impossible to identify a single inventor of the machine we call the computer.  There are, however, significant milestones along the road to the creation of this ubiquitous modern tool. One surprising one is found in the early 1800s, marking the work of two intriguing pioneers: Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. This session will explore the inspirations and collaborations of this son of a wealthy banker and daughter of a famous poet, and how their talents and personalities combined to almost create a working computer 100 years before any other became a reality.

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: David McKinley

    Capacity Remaining: 21

  • Start Date - End Date: 4/13/2026 - 4/13/2026

    Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  • Sessions: 1

    Day(s) of Week: M

  • Location: UNT Support & Services Building

    Room: SSB 102
 

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