Three robots, three student groups…a battle of the intelligent versus the artificially intelligent.

What: SCImagine! 2008, the Science & Engineering Library's annual spring event.
Where: Upson Room, Walter Library 102
When: Friday, May 9, 2008 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Come see live robot demonstrations and the latest creations of artificial intelligence by students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The presentations will be accompanied by light refreshments and stimulating conversation.

SCImagine! emphasizes the Science & Engineering Library's role as an intellectual gathering place on campus. Each spring the library showcases university teaching, learning, and research in the physical sciences and engineering offering fascinating presentations and lively discussions.

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What: Photography exhibit
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
When: Through Saturday, June 14, 2008
Free and open to the public.

This traveling exhibition of photographs, curated by historian Rickie Solinger, captures the complexities of being a mother in contemporary America if you are young or poor; if you are on the streets or disabled; if you are unprotected, in prison, or alone.

Sponsored by the University Libraries; the School of Social Work; the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare; the Institute for Advanced Study; the College of Liberal Arts; the Departments of History, American Studies, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; the Humphrey Center for Women and Public Policy; and the Life Course Center of the Department of Sociology.

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What: Exhibit: 75th Anniversary of the Burning of the Hirschfeld Library
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
When: March 24 - May 16, 2008
Free and open to the public.

May 10, 2008, marks the 75th anniversary of the burning of the Magnus Hirschfeld Library by the National Socialists (Nazis) in Berlin. The exhibit displays materials that survived the Library's destruction and tells the history of this momentous event.

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