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Wednesday 27 May 2026, 10:00-14:30
When Programmes Disagree About Programmes: Code Poetry and the Problem of Programme–Programme Communication
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Steffen Roth (Excelia Business School and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge) and Dr Vincent Lien (Clare College, University of Cambridge) 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 27 May 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
- 📍 Venue: CRASSH, SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP Cambridge, United Kingdom
Abstract
What happens when programmes interpret programmes? As decision-making becomes increasingly mediated by computational procedures, interactions between programmes themselves come into view as a potential site of communication.
This workshop explores the challenge of programme–programme communication through the case of code poetry—an artefact that simultaneously invites formal execution and semantic interpretation. Drawing on a moderated dialogue between two large language models interpreting the same code poems, the session examines how divergent interpretations emerge, stabilise, and resist convergence.
Read the full announcement at https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50662/
Series This talk is part of the Social systems theory at Cambridge series.
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