Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
Omnilore Topics Offered For <strong>Spring</strong> 2016<br />
Please note that the books listed for each course are only possible<br />
candidates. Do not buy any until the pre-meeting and a decision<br />
on the common reading is made.<br />
Classes start January 3, <strong>2017</strong><br />
and end April 29, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Holiday periods are adapted to by<br />
individual class voting.<br />
(ALG) The Formula: How Algorithms<br />
Solve All Our Problems…and Create More<br />
Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday<br />
lives—from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to<br />
online retailing and internet searches. Algorithms follow a series of<br />
instructions to solve a problem and will include a strategy to produce<br />
the best outcome possible from the options and permutations<br />
available. Used by scientists for many years and applied in a very<br />
specialized way, they are now increasingly employed to process the<br />
vast amounts of data being generated in investment banks, in the<br />
movie industry where they are used to predict success or failure at<br />
the box office and by social scientists and policy makers.<br />
Luke Dormehl takes readers inside the world of numbers, asking<br />
how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms;<br />
introducing the mathematicians, artificial intelligence experts and<br />
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are shaping this brave new world,<br />
and ultimately asking how we survive in an era where numbers can<br />
sometimes seem to create as many problems as they solve.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Formula: How Algorithms<br />
Solve All Our Problems…and<br />
Create More, by Luke Dormehl<br />
(November 2014)<br />
(APP) Y’all Come…to Appalachia!<br />
There has been a recent surge of interest in the mountain region of<br />
the states of: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia,<br />
Kentucky, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee,<br />
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Referred to as Appalachia, its<br />
geographical boundaries exist not because of any legal boundaries,<br />
but because of the shared history, culture, and environment of<br />
mountain people in eastern North America. Appalachia offers a rich<br />
slice of American history, but it is often steeped in mythic lore and<br />
stereotyped as backward, uncultured and poor. For many<br />
generations, the region has grappled with basic survival issues<br />
along with environmental and labor exploitation; its residents h<br />
ave been admired as self-sufficient small farmers and ridiculed as<br />
hillbillies. This S/DG will attempt to get beyond the stereotypes of<br />
the region and examine the long, complex, difficult and beautiful<br />
history of the mountains and the people.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Appalachia: A History<br />
by John A Williams (April 2002)<br />
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