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HaPoC Council Meeting

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:00

On Tuesday 21 October 2014, the HaPoC Commission Council composed by Liesbeth de Mol, Giuseppe Primiero, Benedikt Loewe, Raymond Turner, Helena Durnova and gerard Alberts met in London. This was our annual Council meeting.

The discussion was focused on the present and the future of HaPoC, and its activities. In particular, the Council has considered:

Walter Isaacson on the women of ENIAC

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 11:37

An excerpt from the book The Innovators by Walter Isaacson on the women who programmed ENIAC.

http://fortune.com/2014/09/18/walter-isaacson-the-women-of-eniac/

CiE15 HaPoC Special Session

Submitted by admin on Fri, 09/05/2014 - 13:27

HaPoC is organising a new Special Session on History and Philosophy of Computing at the CiE2015 Evolving Computability Conference, to be held in Bucharest, Romania from June 29th to July 3rd. This new event will be organised by Marco Benini (University of Insubria) and Christine Proust (CNRS & Université Paris Diderot). The community is very grateful for their help in setting up this new Special Session and we are looking forward for a new exciting programme!

On Software Intensive Science

Submitted by admin on Sat, 08/02/2014 - 11:55

Among the most discussed issues of the research area of philosophy of computing these days are certainly the nature, methodology and experimental characteristics of Software Intensive Science. A recent article in Philosophy & Technology by John Symons, Jack Horner has explicitly approached SIS, available here:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-014-0163-x

The article is followed by two short comment papers, by Nicola Angius here

A Wider Scope of Inquiry

Submitted by robin_hill on Sat, 08/02/2014 - 04:10

When I was a programmer, and even when I was a teacher of programming, I would wonder about where data structures and algorithms came from, and to what extent people use pass-by-value, pass-by-reference, and pass-by-name for communication in daily life, and whether we use those techniques for activities besides communication, and whether the universe somehow uses those techniques, and about many other speculative questions. Now those questions attract me to the philosophy of computer science.

Presentation by Gonzalo Genova, HaPoC@IACAP14

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:14

The original programme of the HaPoC Symposium at IACAP14 included a talk from Gonzalo Genova (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España & Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile), titled "Intertwining of formal and empirical methods in software engineering". Unfortunately Gonzalo was not able to attend the meeting, but he sent us a voice over slides presentation of his talk, for which we thank him! The file is available at the following link:

HAPOC Symposium @IACAP

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/10/2014 - 12:40

The HaPoC symposium

On July 3, 2014 we organized a symposium during the 29th IACAP conference in sunny Thessaloniki. It was a long but satisfying day with lots of discussion. For the symposium we decided to work around three fundamental questions:

An introduction to the P&T HaPoC Special Issue

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/04/2014 - 13:02

After HaPoC-I held in Ghent in 2011, two Special Issues went into preparation to collect refereed contributions to the Conference and some additional contributions. The paper to be collected in the first of these issues were already published online on the website of Philosophy & Technology (Springer) for a while. Now the introduction to the same volume has been published and it is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-014-0169-4#.

Blog for the HaPoC Community launched!

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/04/2014 - 12:45

This new feature of our website is an opportunity for all registered users to post about anything they want: requests for collaboration, ideas, questions, opinion, interesting texts or images. Remember to use the Events content type for events you know about or are organizing and the Publications content type to announce any new or interesting publication. Good blogging!

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