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'''''The Library of Babel''''' is a short story by Argentine author and librarin Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible combinations of alphanumeric text. A splinterfan group has created a prototype of the idea at [http://libraryofbabel.info libraryofbabel.info].
The '''''Conference on Diversity in Engineering''''' (CDE) is presented by the [[CFES|Canadian Federation of Engineering Students]] (CFES) in collaboration with universities from across Canada. CDE 2016 aims to encourage discussion and collaboration between engineering students and professionals around the theme of diversity in engineering. The conference will encourage and aid students in developing knowledge surrounding the variety of individuals, cultures and perspectives found within engineering communities to better address the multidisciplinary issues of society. Our goal is to foster an open and welcoming environment that values the differences within engineering groups to improve the quality and inclusivity of engineering design.
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== CDE 2016: Montreal ==
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As Canada’s second largest city, Montreal serves as a great location for CDE as it presents great cultural diversity and is a growing hub for engineering and innovation. Planned day and night activities throughout the conference will allow delegates to experience firsthand the spirit of the city. McGill’s excellent academic reputation is topped only by its diverse and passionate student body from all walks of life and every corner of the world. CDE 2016 will unite these perspectives with the goal of promoting excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the field of engineering in Canada -- and throughout the world.
Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and the space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents.
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|colspan=3|<strong>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18</strong>
Despite—indeed, because of—this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the librarians in a state of suicidal despair. This leads some librarians to superstitions and cult-like behaviours, such as the "Purifiers", who arbitrarily destroy books they deem nonsense as they scour through the library seeking the "Crimson Hexagon" and its illustrated, magical books. Others believe that since all books exist in the library, somewhere one of the books must be a perfect index of the library's contents; some even believe that a messianic figure known as the "Man of the Book" has read it, and they travel through the library seeking him.
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|09:30 – 23:30
 
|REGISTRATION
|Registration will begin in the morning for those arriving early and will continue throughout the day.
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|13:30 – 15:30
|MONTREAL WELCOME EVENT
|A few activities will be organized to get delegates acquainted with the city.
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|16:00 –17:30
|OPENING REMARKS
|We will gather to hear a welcome speech from the hosts.
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|18:00 – 22:00
|FOOD CRAWL
|We will then explore the city and get a taste of a diverse selection of foods for dinner!
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The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La biblioteca total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library" ("Die Universalbibliothek"):
The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La biblioteca total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library" ("Die Universalbibliothek"):
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