ekkolápto's Mind and Matter Calendar

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A sneak peek into ekkolápto's in-person and online events across Boston, San Francisco, Austin, Toronto, Waterloo, Princeton, Florida, Ann Arbor/Detroit, New York, and DC/Maryland.

Events

• How Limitations Generate Novelty in Music | Ekkolápto Polymath Salon Online 2026-06-15
• Dinner Downtown SF 2026-06-13
• Rap Hackathon 2026-06-03
• Synesthesia, Accents, and Rap | Ekkolápto Polymath Salon Online 2026-05-21
• Ekkolápto Vision Enhancement Study Wait List | San Francisco Summer 2026 (DATE TBD) 2026-05-20
• A Cultural Computing Perspective on Rap and How Computation Allows Language to Evolve w/ Prof. Elan Barenholtz | Ekkolápto Polymath Salon 2026-05-14
• Enhancing Human Eyesight | Ekkolápto Polymath Salon @ Harvard St. Commons 2026-04-14
• Inducing Supraphysiological Vision in Humans | Demo @ Waterloo 2026-04-10
• Inducing Supraphysiological Vision in Humans | Demo Night @ UofT 2026-04-07
• Are Human Brains Fundamentally LLMs? | Profs. Elan Barenholtz + William Edward Hahn @ Waterloo Akatos House 2026-03-18
• Biological Prompt Engineering: Cybernetics Perspective on Programmable Biology | Online Ekkolápto Polymath Salon 2026-03-11
• Biological Prompt Engineering: A Cybernetics Perspective on Programmable Biology and World Models | Ekkolápto Polymath Salon 2026-02-26
• LLMs and the Brain: Autoregressive Mechanisms of Human Cognition | Dr. Elan Barenholtz Keynote 2025-12-03
• Emergence of Natural & Artificial Patterns | MPCR Lab + Complex Systems AI Lecture Series 2025-11-12
• The Future of Funding R&D w/ Jim O'Shaughnessy & Atman Pandya | Computational Philosophy Salon 2025-11-10
• Active Inference Theory of Consciousness | Dr. Ruben Laukkonen & Dr. Adam Safron | Computational Philosophy Salon 2025-11-06
• The Future of Research–In & Out of Academia w/ Niko McCarty from Asimov Press | Computational Philosophy Online Salon 2025-10-30
• A New Paradigm For Measuring Cellular Intelligence w/ Precigenetics CEO Parmita Mishra @ MIT Media Lab 2025-10-20
• Interdisciplinary Biology, Cybernetics & Complex Systems Research Hackathon @ MIT Media Lab 2025-10-17
• Polycomputation, Cartesian Dualism, Bio-Robots & Embodiment | Prof. Josh Bongard | Computational Philosophy Group @ MIT 2025-10-08