Feb. 17: Darwin's Strange Inversion of Reasoning Daniel Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher professor of philosophy at Tufts University. Before Charles Darwin wrote "Origin of the Species," people assumed that living organisms were built according to a pre-existing plan. When Darwin showed that...

March 10: Really Intelligent Computers Paul Cohen, the UA computer science department head, will talk about developing really intelligent computers. Really intelligent computers will do more than current artificial intelligence, which has delivered cars that drive themselves, airline reservation...

March 3: Visualizing Human Thought Elena Plante heads up the UA's speech, language and hearing sciences department. Throughout most of medical history, the human brain's ability to think and communicate thoughts could only be understood in terms of behavior following brain damage. But new tools...