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Kotlikoff Announces Formation of New Presidential Search Committee

U.A. members discuss code of conduct, response to Qatar labor conditions

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

appointment of President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings, information on potential labor abuses at Cornell’s Weill Medical campus in Qatar and proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct at its meeting Tuesday Provo s

Michael Kotlikoff anticipated that Pre

Rawlings’ transition will be “ very easy and comfortable ”

from different sections of the Cornell community

“The search committee will be composed in a broad way as the previous search committee was, so it will include a member of faculty, at least one or two associate members of the student body and members of staff as well,” Kotlikoff said

The committee’s first job will be to visit campuses and

“He’s had a lot of experience, obviously, over his two terms as President with issues like transitions.”

“He’s had a lot of experience, obviously, over his two terms as President with issues like transitions happening now, in the past, ” Kotlikoff said

He added that Jan Rock, a member of The Board of Trustees, will be the new chair of the presidential search committee and that the committee will include members

interview a variety potential candidates, according to Kotlikoff

Kotlikoff also said the president’s office has received multiple interrogations about Qatar labor issues, following

Ithaca Planning Board Discusses Maplewood, Green Parking Lot

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

The Town of Ithaca Planning Board discussed the Maplewood Apartments development for graduate students and the effort to transform a parking lot into a model green lot at its meeting Tuesday

According to the development committee for Maplewood Apartments, there were

significant changes to the plans as they developed such as adding more green space and attempting to create a more gradual transition from the development to the surrounding single family homes

The new plans are a step in the right direction, according to City Planning Board member C J Randall

“It’s good to see that this is progressing, and that it’s progressing as a result of inter-

Ithaca Man Arrested Fleeing

Eddy Street Burglary Scene

It h a c a p o l i

Nickolas Conklin, 22, after responding to a burglary in progress on Eddy Street early Tuesday morning

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s arrested while fleeing the scene after officers secured the perimeter, accordi n g

s release

The release said the resident called police after hearing the sound of breaking glass and later officers were advised en route that the resident heard someone in the apartment

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h e d Concklin’s vehicle, which was

apartment, as well as the suspect ’ s home, and found evidence from other burglaries in each, according to the press release

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Ithaca Police Department and SWAT

Street at 5 a m on Tuesday morning

Members served a search warrant and after securing the apar tment, found weighing

materials often used during

action with the community,” Randall said

According to Scott Whitman, the project’s lead planner, the overall sustainability of the site has not been looked at yet because stormwater solutions are “the number one sustainable goal right now ”

“The sustainability features of the site we are looking at so far are mostly related to stormwater, so our goal here is to maintain the same or less imper vious sur face,”

Whitman said

The developers indicated a larger focus on environmental sustainability in later stages of the development of the project

“As we move into the architecture and design, we will have a presentation on more of the sustainable features,” Whitman said

The board passed the resolution to allow

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Dr Ariella Azoulay: Here I Am, Kill Me If You Wish 4:30 p m , 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

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Guards Hop to It: Huge Rabbit Exhibit Gets 24/7 Security

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Several large illuminated rabbits installed at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza will have round-the-clock security until the exhibit comes down this month Sa n

Monday that the giant inflatable bunnies are part of a public art installation

strip club

Auwin Dargin, 24, pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday He could face up to six years in prison if convicted

daughter in the car for an hour last month during an afternoon visit to the club

Authorities say the baby was found by employees of the club and a neighboring business

Jill McCluskey: An Evaluation of University Partner Accommodation Policies with Implications for Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion of STEM Women

12 - 1:15 p m , 401 Warren Hall

A Conversation With Sheri Sher, Hip Hop Pioneer and Author Of Mercedes Ladies 6 p m , Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center

The Yellow Ticket: Free Screening

7:30 p m , Bear’s Den, Sage Chapel Tomorrow

To prevent the kind of vandalism that hit Super Bowl 50 artwork earlier this year, the bunnies will get 24-hour security until the exhibit ends April 25

The two-stor y art piece titled “Intrude” by Australian artist Amanda Parer toured much of the world before arriving at the steps of City Hall

Commission says the exhibit is ideal because it’s in a space where people can come and enjoy it and “take what they want from it ”

Man Charged With Leaving Baby In Car at Strip Club

LOS ANGELES (AP) A Los Angeles man has been charged with child abuse for allegedly leaving his baby in the car while he went to a San Fernando Valley

Chihuahua Leads Police On Chase Across Bay Bridge

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A Chihuahua is in animal custody after leading police on a chase across the OaklandSan Francisco Bay Bridge

The California Highway Patrol tweeted the small black dog “led us on quite a chase” Sunday and posted a video of it running furiously on the upper level of the bridge while being trailed by a motorcycle officer

After it was captured, the Chihuahua was taken to a San Francisco animal shelter where staff members named it Ponch, after the CHP Officer Frank Poncherello played by Erik Estrada in the TV series “CHiPs ”

A spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Animal Care and Control said the dog wore a tag decorated with a human skull, but it had no identification Deb Campbell said the dog was recovering from its misadventure

Passionate About Machines, Prof Explains Online Currency Bitcoin

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Ever since he was introduced to his father’s ‘adding machine,’ Associate Professor Emin Gün Sirer, computer science, said he has been fascinated by the inner workings

o f c o m p u t i n g machines and systems

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that people have seen

how computers work

t h a t t h e y

said “[At times dur-

y, ‘Okay, this is how it’s actually done,’ and I love looking up at the crowd and I love seeing that moment that revelation ”

One of the major areas of Sirer’s study is d i g i t

, including Bitcoin and m a r k e t

B

n ecosystem

is appealing to a lot of people ”

Bitcoin was previously thought to be an incentive-compatible system, where following the protoc

Sirer explained that Bitcoin is essentially “the vir tual equivalent of gold ” “ There is a finite supply of it, it’s controlled the rate at which you can extract it is limited,” Sirer said “[It cannot] be manipulated by politicians This

n ro c k c l i m b i n g “ We w o u l d l i k e t o p r o v i d e p e o p l e w i t h a n i n c r e a s e d o p p o r t u n i t y t o c o nt i n u e d e v e l o p i n g t h e i r s k i l l s a n d , h o p e f u l l y, b e c o mi n g l i f e - l o n g c l i m b e r s , ” Mc L a u g h l i n s a i d M a r c M a g n u s - S h a r p e , d i r e c t o r o f C o r n e l l Ou t d o o r Ed u c a t i o n , a d d e d t h a t t h e re n ova t i o n w i l l h e l p f u r t h e r t h e m a i n m i s s i o n o f C O E “ Ou r g o a l i s t h a t a l l o f t h e s e s t u d e n t s l e a r n t o c l i m b s o we l l t h a t

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higher profits but goes against market protocols

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Once we ’ ve discovered [ s e l f i s h m i n i n g ] , i t ’ s

actually pretty useful because now you can [monitor] the health of a Bitcoin system by looking at how big the miners are ” Despite this flaw, Sirer said he is still optimistic

about the potential of Bitcoin for online transactions

He added that one of his favorite features of Bitcoin is that it allows users to create self-enforcing monetar y contracts where money is not dispersed until the conditions of the contract are fulfilled

“ There are a lot of aspects of human interaction where I think it would be nice to make programmatic, where money can change hands under automatically set conditions,” he said

Sirer also emphasized his love for teaching especially on the topic of operating systems and demystifying the processes that operate under the hood of a computer

“ There are things that if you know how they work, they’re fairly straightfor ward,” Sirer said “But most people don’t know how they work, and when we actually discuss these things, people go ‘ah, so that’s how it works ’”

Sirer said these “tricks” exist inside ever y operating system “ This is what makes my machine tick, this is how it decides what to do, this is how it creates the illusion of concurrency, ” he explained

Sirer said he also encourages his students and anybody interested in computers to “ get their hands d

machines and write their own programs He also stresses that it’s never too late to star t in the field of computer science

“I see a lot of people in our [computer science] program who worr y that they come to Cornell and they’ve been exposed to computers for ‘only a fe w years ’ or ‘much later than their friends,’” Sirer said “And I have to break it down for them that it just doesn’t matter You could pick this material up at age 18 [or] 20 and still be competitive ”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

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U.A. Debates Conduct Code Modifcation

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a recent resolution requesting the Un i ve r s i t y t o p rov i d e s p e c i f i c information on labor conditions at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar

The University’s most recent response to the assembly is a focused effort to provide all possible data, according to Kotlikoff

“Understand that there are certain confidential things that we won ’ t be able to provide, but those things deemed non-confidential, like summary information about employees, employee conditions of employment and the processes that are used to employ individuals, we will provide to the assembly,” Kotlikoff said Kotlikoff said he does not have all the information on labor practices in Qatar currently, but the University intends to provide this data soon

“I’m sure it will not satisfy all the requests for data, but we will give the assembly what we are able to give,” he said

The U A tabled a resolution proposing changes to the Campus Code of Conduct which would alter mainly how the University hanldes temporar y suspensions and the no-contact directive an order that prohibits one person from contacting another person after menacing activity

Gabriel Kaufman ’18, chair of the U A codes and judicial committee, explained that the proposed change to the no-contact directive would create a symmetry in how the directive works, making it binding upon all parties

“ The judicial administrator’s office could not issue a no-contact directive on one member of let’s say a fight that wouldn’t bind on the other member, which would allow the member who issued the nocontact directive to approach the member who was and get them in trouble,” Kaufman explained Alexander Thomson ’13, executive vice chair of the U A , expressed concern about a mutual no-contact directive, calling it “potentially harmful ”

“There must be a clear direction of which party bears the responsibility of maintaining no contact, ” Thomson said “If neither party bears any responsibility for maintaining no-contact the potential abuser is left with the same upper hand that they had going into the process ” Kaufman also explained that the code change to the temporary suspension clarifies that the process applies to both individuals and organizations and that the last measure of the resolution would create a mechanism for review in terms of temporary suspension

“The final measure would be an appeals process, ” he said “The code change would create an appeals process for no-contact directive and for temporary suspensions which would require them to be continuously review by a hearing board, to make sure that we don't have people who get temporarily suspended indefinitely ”

Lauren Kelly can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun com

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Cruz, Sanders Victorious in Wis. Primaries Wins bolster two candidates trailing frontrunners

MILWAUKEE (AP)

Republican Sen Ted Cruz (R-Tex ) stormed to a commanding victory in Wisconsin Tuesday, denting front-runner Donald Trump’s chances of capturing the GOP nomination before the party ’ s convention Democrat Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt ) triumphed over Hillary Clinton but still faces a mathematically difficult path to the White House

Trump’s defeat capped one of the worst periods of his campaign, a brutal stretch that highlighted his weaknesses with women and raised questions about his policy depth While the billionaire businessman still leads the Republican field, Cruz and an array of anti-Trump forces hope Wisconsin signals the start of his decline

“Tonight is a turning point,” Cruz told cheering supporters at a victory rally “It is a call from the hardworking people of Wisconsin to America We have a choice A real choice ”

The results in Wisconsin make it likely both parties’ primaries will continue deep into the spring, draping front-runners Trump and Clinton in uncertainty and preventing both from fully setting their sights on the general election

With an overwhelming white electorate and liberal pockets of voters, Wisconsin was favorable territory for Sanders In a sign of Clinton’s low expectations in the Midwestern state, she spent Tuesday night at a fundraiser with top donors in New York City

Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin “To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” she wrote

Sanders’ win will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he’ll still lag Clinton significantly With 86 delegates at stake in Wisconsin, Sanders will pick up at least 44 and Clinton will gain at least 28

Local Police Respond to

Burglary, Raid Apartment

drug sales, according to a press release

Officers are interviewing the resident of the apartment and the investigation is ongoing, according to The Ithaca Journal

Ithaca police officer Jamie Williamson told The Journal that although no arrest was made, the raid was still successful “because we have just developed some sort of information

Planning Board Addresses

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Cruz, a Texas senator with a complicated relationship with Republican leaders, also cast his victory as a moment for unity in a party that has been roiled by a contentious primary campaign

But Trump was unbowed His campaign put out a biting statement: “Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr Trump ”

Sanders’s sweeping win in virtually every county in Wisconsin, except Milwaukee, gives him greater incentive to keep competing against Clinton But he still trails her in the pledged delegate count and has so far been unable to persuade superdelegates the party officials who can back any candidate to drop their allegiance to the former secretary of state and back his campaign

At a raucous rally in Wyoming, Sanders cast his victory as a sign of mounting momentum for his campaign

“With our victory tonight is Wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries,” he declared

That means Sanders must still win 67 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination

While Trump has been the dominant force in the Republican race, he battled a series of campaign controversies in the lead-up to Wisconsin, including his campaign manager ’ s legal problems following an altercation with a female reporter and his own awkward stumbles in clarifying his views on abortion Wisconsin’s Republican establishment, including Gov Scott Walker (R-Wis ), has also campaigned aggressively against the businessman

Exit polls in the state underscored the concerns about Trump that are surging through some corners of the Republican Party A majority of Republican voters said they’re either concerned or scared of a potential Trump presidency More than a third said they were scared about what Trump would do as president, and about two in 10 said they were concerned, according to surveys conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks

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Editorial

Toward a More Representative Student Assembly

NEARLY HALF OF THE ACCEPTED STUDENTS in the Class of 2020 are students of color, the University proudly announced last week While the University’s focus on increasing student diversity is commendable, promoting diversity must extend beyond admission statistics and include efforts to support minority students once they step onto campus Following this line of thinking, on Thursday, the Student Assembly will host a public discussion on how to restructure to become a more inclusive and representative entity “Underrepresented students’ voices remain absent due to the systematic exclusion within the current structure, ” the S A wrote in the discussion’s event description

“Systemic exclusion” is a problem that can only be adequately addressed with systemic changes Recent initiatives, like the addition of a first-generation representative, are crucial steps toward promoting diversity, but they are slow and incremental changes Underrepresentation of minority interests is an issue embedded within the S A ’ s current structure for representation For example, the minority representative position may allow the responsibility of addressing minority issues issues that will be relevant to nearly half of the Class of 2020 to fall to the few elected to minority positions Increasing the number of minority representatives can help bolster the voice of often underrepresented groups However, we must also remember that every person elected to the S A is called to act as an advocate for minority students

Deeper structural issues lurk behind the S A ’ s structural struggle with representation Issues like the $350 student health insurance fee and the College of Business highlight the S A ’ s limited ability to convey student concerns to the University administration, contributing to disillusionment and apathy within the student body If the S A is to become a more productive and effective advocate for student issues especially students who are continually underrepresented on this campus S A representatives must recognize that their work should go beyond passing resolutions and include maintaining connections with minority communities to more effectively shape and implement reform

In recognizing a need to restructure, the S A takes an important, but frustratingly slow, step to engage more students and become a more representative entity and thus a more powerful voice for students Before Thursday’s forum, students should think critically about the structural issues that produce “systematic exclusion” and think imaginatively and boldly about productive solutions We urge the S A to seek to better understand the student populations it represents, to listen openly and to respond promptly to the ideas suggested at Thursday’s forum We also urge the student body to attend and actively participate in this discussion Problem solving is most productive when it happens from the bottom up, and the responsibility of crafting a stronger and more representative S A falls on not just elected representatives but also on every undergraduate student

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ManyWeb Whose Right? The Question Of Birthright

organizations promote Birthright, a free 10-day trip to Israel for Jewish young adults, with the mission of “build[ing] a lasting bond with the land and people of Israel ” These trips are offered in many themes, ranging from hiking trips and art trips to LGBTQ trips They offer tours of Israel, allowing participants to explore the country, meet Israeli Defense Force soldiers and visit the rapidly expanding settlements Birthright trips have become extremely popular, attracting more than 400,000 participants since the program ’ s creation in 1999 Birthright has inspired many similar trips, some of which also focus on creating solidarity between historically oppressed people such as Armenian and Irish communities, and others that focus on bringing certain groups together to their homelands, such as Greek, Hungarian and Icelandic birthright trips

It is a noble and important idea to unite and foster connections between groups that share a certain identity, especially ones that have been historically oppressed, but it is important to consider the implications of such trips and the people they affect

Many people who have attended Birthright trips have spoken highly of the experience, arguing it has given them a chance to explore Israel for themselves and deepen their connection with their religion However, Birthright has faced criticism for multiple aspects of the program, including alleged propaganda efforts Along with pushing rhetoric that conflates Judaism with Zionism, Birthright trips allegedly shield participants from the realities of life in Gaza and the West Bank and aim to convince participants to relocate to Israel and join the IDF (Birthright does not keep track of how many participants go on to join the IDF but estimates that 20,000–30,000 of its participants have moved to Israel) The program has also received attention for its unapologetic promotion of relationships on the trips, which mix young adults with alcohol and the company of each other for 10 days with predictable outcomes These efforts are seen as a part of a plan to promote marriage within Birthright participants that will lead to eventual relocation to Israel to reproduce and repopulate in order to remedy the trend of intermarriage, which founders see as a threat

Many young people choose to go on Birthright, and understandably so Not many people would turn down a free vacation, especially when it provides a promise of building connections with others that share a common identity and often feel out of place elsewhere But possible issues with the trip are often not considered, and any cognitive dissonance is quickly justified and explained away, referencing the irresistibility of a free holiday

In 1948, when the state of Israel was created, about 800,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes In the six-day war of 1967, around 350,000 more Palestinians were forced to flee As of 2015, there are over 5 million Palestinian refugees registered with the UN, and one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 194 which states that Palestinian refugees “wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible ”

The UN General Resolution 3236 passed in 1974 declared the “right to return ” an inalienable right Furthermore, Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, passed in December 1948, states that “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country ”

The Israeli government has, however, on multiple occasions denied the right of return to Palestinian refugees, suggesting that Palestinian refugees relocate elsewhere

In this context, the name of the trip seems to have some implications worth considering It seems odd that the trip participants, 80 percent of whom are from the USA and Canada, have more of an inherent “right” to a land than do the 5 million refugees, whose families lived in Palestine for generations until they were expelled The notion of a birthright is neither right nor wrong, but is troubled when it entails the exclusion and expulsion of certain other groups

Whether or not people choose to go on Birthright is a decision completely up to them, but it is important to evaluate and critically engage with the consequences and possible intentions of the trip that affects other populations in ways bigger than a free vacation When one of the co-founders of Birthright, Michael Steinhardt, has explicitly denied the existence of the Palestinian people, it is important to open up the discussion surrounding the trip and consider whether or not the issues raised are worth a free vacation

In response to issues raised with Birthright, some pro-Palestinian groups have offered a counter trip: Birthright Unplugged, which allows Westerners (often Jewish youths) to explore Palestine and meet with civilians living under the occupation This program does not pretend to be objective, but provides an alternative to Birthright trips for those that wish to see the other side of the story that is almost never told

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Is the Robot Uprising Actually Going to Happen?

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Science Editor

Siri debuted in 2011 as of the first intelligent personal assistants Since then, personal assistants have become an integral part of the smartphone experience, providing a way to more efficiently interact with the hand-held device They can perform simple tasks like taking notes and setting reminders While this doesn’t seem like much in 2016, these features were groundbreaking a mere five years ago

Today, Facebook uses facial recognition that makes tagging friends easier, while Netflix and Spotify use learning algorithms to suggest your next favorite movie

All of these examples show how various areas of artificial intelligence are already having a deep impact on our lives

So, why are the major advances in the field of artificial intelligence often portrayed as the coming of impending apocalypse in popular media? How lik the threat of a robot uprising?

While it is easy, and sometimes even profitab reach frightening conclusions, the answer itself is simple And to reach it, a few things need to understood

The first of which is the definition of artificial intelligence The Merriam-Webster dictionar y defines it as “ a branch of computer science that deals with simulation of intelligent behavior in computers ” Prof Bart Selman, computer science, said he agreed with this definition but also said that it could be thought of better as a sum of parts

“ The ultimate goal [of artiicial intelligence] is to really model human thinking, human cognition an maybe even go beyond that But we generally bre down into sub areas, ” he said

He said that it is these sub areas that have had “ a few successes ” For example, computer vision hugely improved the programming of self-driving cars

problems that we currently face

However, combining these sub-areas to help perform various tasks is ver y much a reality Selman said that we will see the emergence of partial intelligence first “ The self-driving car is a good example It is already working but will be perfected over the next two years, ” he said “So there you have an intelligent task driving, that will be taken over by a machine ”

Another thing to understand is that people and machines exist in a symbiotic relationship with one another The Google’s Go player, Alpha Go’s win against the Go grandmaster Lee Sedol was as much a learning opportunity for the players as it was a milestone for AI

“ What Alpha Go did is they combined that learning by literally having it play millions of games, and combine that with a previously developed technique in terms of reasoning and l ”

not as comprehensive as it could be ”

Selman points out that this is currently speculation, but probable since better forms of gameplay have developed for other games too

The human sense of understanding is ver y different from the way computers currently process information, though it is not for the lack of tr ying A lot of human communication is context-based Selman pointed out that though we tend to think that in communication, most of the meaning is in the words, we forget how much is much is actually unsaid

“So, in natural language we communicate ver y little with the amount of words or text we exchange, because we rely so much on this common sense knowledge,” he said “It’s so obvious, that it’s not possible to get it from the web ”

These cars are no longer only dependent on GPS to navigate, and now detect other cars and objects in their present environment Beyond personal assistants on phones and laptops, Google’s introduction of voice editing in Google Docs is an instance of the increased modes of technological interaction beyond typing Machine learning, another sub area of AI, has been helping suggest your next favorite song

So, while the definition might suggest that the goal is to develop a single fully intelligent machine, it would be incorrect to assume that it would necessarily happen Innovations are often born out of necessity, and a fully intelligent machine doesn’t necessarily solve any of the

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This kind of understanding is not yet possible for computers Selman said that while companies are worki it “like crazy, they [computers] don’t really know bookshelf is ” so to attain this human-like understanding, nies are working on building rich knowledge not databases as they are not just facts t knowledge, things that are related to each ther

So what would this understanding mean for consciousness of the machine or the program?

The answer to that question depends on how we define consciousness “ We don’t quite know what conscious is, but it is reasonable to expect that once machines start to get our level of understanding, they might start to ask questions about h e m s e l ve s , a n d t h a t t h e y a re a m a c h i n e , ” man said o coming back to the question of a robot uprishile it is not out of the view of possibility, it nlikely ever, this technology and its massive potential for change does raise important questions about the future of our society How different would the job prospects be in the future if a lot of the work could be done by machines? How would you measure professional accountability in life threatening scenarios? What would automation mean for the militar y?

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James Frichner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jsf95@cornell edu

The most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous “https://librar yofbabel info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any audio or video What it does contain is one of the c l o s e s t a p p rox i m a t i o n s o f i n f i n i t y e ve r c re a t e d by humans

The site is the creation of Jonathan Basile, and is inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges shor t stor y “ The Librar y of Babel ” Borges’s stor y describes a “universe” that is an endless librar y Each room is shaped like a hexagon, and opens onto two more identical rooms, repeating endlessly Each room contains a set number of bookshelves, each with a set number of books Each book contains 410 pages, on which are printed 25 characters (a modified 22-letter alphabet, the period, the comma and the space) in random orders The inhabitants of the librar y who are born inside and spend their lives wandering from room to room believe that the books of the librar y contain ever y possible iteration of those 25 characters across 410 pages.

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minute histor y of the future,

site (simply called “Librar y of Babel”) The site is not a precise reconstr uction of Borges’s librar y; the alphabet is the English alphabet, rather than the modified one of Borges’s stories An inconsistency in Borges’s description of the rooms, which might be an accident or a subtle trap for only the most attentive readers, has been ironed out Most impor tantly, the site does not contain ever y possible book of 410 pages, 3200 characters to a page This would mean 1,312,000 different possible combinations of characters Instead, the site contains somewhere ever y possible page of 3200 characters, which means around 10^4677 books In other words, ever y possible permutation of a page is found somewhere in the librar y, but not ever y possible permutation of a full 410-page book

The online librar y can be approached the way Borges’s characters interact with their librar y; by searching for a coherent line, even a word, among pages and pages of gibberish The

h e archangels, the faithful catalogue of the Librar y, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, a demonstration of the fallacy of these catalogues ” The stor y ’ s narrator describes how the people of the librar y spend their lives searching for a book of some use, since they know that all possible information can be found in a book somewhere in the librar y Of course, nobody ever finds what they are looking for

The monstrous and terrifyingly dull universe imagined in this stor y can be found in Jonathan Basile’s web-

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pasted an entire New York Times Monday ar ticle, and found it faithfully reproduced in multiple books, sandwiched by incoherence It existed in all these places before the writer began to imagine it But the unwritten poems, pages of novels, and prophecies that the website must contain remain inaccessible

The librar y makes tr uth into a cer tainly real but maddeningly unreachable god And even if a page of tr uth were to be found, those words are contradicted again and again by other pages, ranging from complete

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denials of that tr uth to only slightly var ying alternative accounts The site simulates the shor t stor y ’ s hell of searching for kernels of significance among masses of meaningless garbage, but translates and updates it into a search for meaning in an Internet-hell where ever ything is contained but searches can only uncover what one already knows The creators of the website know fully well the agony the site might cause explorers: their best advice is that readers who “tire of being constantly thwar ted looking for meaning among the librar y ’ s babble can use reading its jumbled texts as a form of meditation Eventually your mind learns no longer to search for or expect significance ” Somewhere in the depths of this website is a page that narrates all of the major events of your life, culminating in the manner of your death Somewhere is a page that contains ever y secret that has ever been hidden from you Somewhere is a page that tells you ever ything that might have happened if you had made different decisions Somewhere is a page that tells you exactly where to find all of these things

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Jeffery Asiedu can be reached at jasiedu@cornellsun com

Red Defeats Temple, Dartmouth in South Florida Invitational

By ZACH SILVER Assistant Sports Editor

A first place finish in the Cornell Spring South Florida Invitational over Dartmouth and Temple has the men ’ s golf team feeling confident and optimistic in pursuit of a better finish in the Ivy seemed elusive

“Golf is a game of confidence so going into future competitions, I think we will have even more of a winning mentality,” said senior captain Brandon Eng

has been impressive in his first year at Cornell “Cen has been the most surprising just because he is a freshman and he is playing ver y well despite this being his first year p l a y i n g c o l l e g i a t e g o l f, ” En g said “He is a ver y steady and consistent player and someone we can count on to play well ” W h a t h a s s e p a r a t e d t h i s team ’ s success from last year, according to Eng, is their newly discovered dedication and work ethic that was unparalleled last

“This past weekend was the best performance I have seen by our program in 16 years.” H e a d c o a c h J a m e s B a

“Now that we ' ve actually done it, it is no longer just something that we believe that we can do, but something that we know for a fact that we can do ”

Now that the team have this impressive win under their belt, they are laser focused on keeping the momentum going moving for ward

“ This past weekend was the best performance I have seen by our program in the 16 years I have been head coach,” said head coach James Baughan “I c ld ' b d f t p p F t in G n

season “I think ever yone on the team has been more diligent this year more than any other year with our practice in the off season, ” he said “ We need to continue that work ethic and and focus in preparation for the Ivy championship If we can stay disciplined and continue to put in work on our golf game, I think we have a good chance of winning ” Go i n g f o r w a rd , Ba u g h a n agreed with Eng that there is still work to be done in order to e t e f o r t h e Iv y pionship “ We have a lot of work ahead of us to reach o u r u l t i m a t e g o a l : a n Iv y L

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