, “Games, Full Abstraction and Full Completeness”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring 2017th ed., Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2017.
Final CfP: Computability in Europe 2017, June 12-16, 2017, Turku, Finland
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
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CiE 2017: Unveiling Dynamics and Complexity
Turku, Finland
June 12-16, 2017
http://math.utu.fi/cie2017
NOTE:
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Symposium “Magic in Science”, co-located with CiE 2017, dedicated to Grzegorz Rozenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday takes place just after CiE, on June 17, 2017. Details below and at at http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2017
Final versions due: March 13, 2017
Early registration before: May 8, 2017
CiE 2017 is the thirteenth conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world.
Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponte Dalgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015) and Paris (2016).
THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in all areas related to computability for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2017.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip) and should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome.
The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag.
ORGANIZED BY:
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku
Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University
email: cie2017@utu.fi
WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY PROGRAM AND GRANTS:
==========================================
We are happy to announce that the CiE Women in Computability program, coordinated by the Special Interest Group Women in Computability
http://sat.mdx.ac.uk/cie-wp/index.php/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
offers four grants of up to 250 EUR for junior female researchers who want to participate in CiE 2017. Applications for this grant should be send to Liesbeth De Mol (liesbeth.demol@univ-lille3.fr) before 1 May 2017 and include a short cv (at most 2 pages) and contact information for an academic reference. Preference will be given to junior female researchers who are presenting a paper (including informal presentations) at CiE 2017.
TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
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Denis R. Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago)
Daniel M. Gusfield (University of California, Davis)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
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Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)
Karen Lange (Wellesley College)
Ludovic Patey (Université Paris Diderot)
Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt-Universit ät zu Berlin)
Alexander Shen (Université de Montpellier)
Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
SPECIAL SESSIONS:
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Algorithmics for biology:
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Organized by Paola Bonizzoni (Milano, Italy) and Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, Finland). Speakers:
Tobias Marschall (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Fabio Vandin (University of Padova)
Gregory Kucherov (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Combinatorics and algorithmics on words:
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Organized by Tero Harju (Turku, Finland) and Dirk Nowotka (Kiel, Germany). Speakers:
Stepan Holub (Charles University in Prague)
Pascal Ochem (Université de Montpellier)
Svetlana Puzynina (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Narad Rampersad (University of Winnipeg)
Computability in analysis, algebra, and geometry:
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Organized by Julia Knight (Notre Dame, USA) and Andrey Morozov (Novosibirsk, Russia). Speakers:
Saugata Basu (Purdue University)
Margarita Korovina (University of Aarhus)
Alexander Melnikov (University of California, Berkeley)
Russell Miller (Queens College, City University of New York)
Cryptography and information theory:
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Organized by Delaram Kahrobaei (New York, USA) and Helger Lipmaa (Tartu, Estonia). Speakers:
Jean-Charles Faugère (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh-Scotland, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh)
Ivan Visconti (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Formal languages and automata theory:
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Organized by Juhani Karhumäki (Turku, Finland) and Alexander Okhotin (St. Petersburg, Russia). Speakers:
Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University at Kingston)
Matrin Kutrib (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Thomas Colcombet (Université Paris Diderot)
Artur Jez (University of Wrocław)
History and philosophy of computing:
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Special topic: History and foundations of recursion, in memory of Rósza Péter (1905-1977)
Organized by Liesbeth De Mol (Lille, France) and Giuseppe Primiero (London, United Kingdom). Speakers:
Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)
Jan von Plato (University of Helsinki)
Cliff Jones (Newcastle University)
Hector Zenil (University of Oxford, and Karolinska Institute)
Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of:
Andrew Arana (Urbana-Champaign, US)
Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, UK)
Paola Bonizzoni (Milan, IT)
Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, FR)
Vasco Brattka (Munich, DE)
Cristian S. Calude (Auckland, NZ)
Ann Copestake (Cambridge, UK)
Liesbeth De Mol (Lille, FR)
Helena Durnová (Brno, CZ)
Ekaterina Fokina (Vienna, AT)
Tero Harju (Turku, FI)
Emmanuel Jeandel (Nancy, FR)
Emil Jeřábek (Prague, CZ)
Natašha Jonoska (Tampa, US)
Jarkko Kari (Turku, FI, co-chair)
Viv Kendon (Durham, UK)
Takayuki Kihara (Berkley, US)
Florin Manea (Kiel, DE)
Klaus Meer (Cottbus, DE)
Russell Miller (New York City, US)
Bernard Moret (Lausanne, CH)
Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, DE)
Dag Normann (Oslo, NO)
Dirk Nowotka (Kiel, DE)
Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon, PT)
Ion Petre (Turku, FI, co-chair)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, CA)
Reed Solomon (Storrs, US)
Mariya Soskova (Sofia, BG)
Susan Stepney (York, UK)
Peter Van Emde Boas (Amsterdam, NL)
Philip Welch (Bristol, UK)
Damien Woods (Pasadena, US)
Magic in Science:
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The symposium “Magic in Science” will be co-located with CiE 2017. It takes place on June 17, 2017, immediately after CiE. The symposium celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg, University of Leiden, the Netherlands and University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Grzegorz Rozenberg is one of the world leaders in research on Theoretical Computer Science and Natural Computing. As a matter of fact, he is often called the guru of Natural Computing, having started promoting it as a coherent scientific discipline already from the 1970s – he gave this area its name and defined its scope. He played a central role in the development of theoretical computer science in Europe. His research is very broad in scope and it is a prime example of interdisciplinary research. He has authored exceptionally many research papers opening new vistas, as well as well-known books about developmental languages, decidability and DNA computing. He supervised numerous Ph.D. students, many of whom have become known scientists. He serves or has served the international computer science community in numerous roles, including: president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS); cofounder and president of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering (ISNSCE); chair of the steering committee of the DNA Computing Conference; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets; chair of the steering committee of the European Educational Forum; cofounder and chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Developments in Language Theory; co-chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation; and director of European Molecular Computing Consortium. The talks given at the symposium will have an overview character and together they will cover a broad range of topics from Computer Science, reflecting Grzegorz Rozenberg’s broad research interests. Among the topics covered are: P vs NP, reaction systems, membrane computing, graph isomorphism, combinatorics on words, DNA rearrangements, smart textiles, smart drones, magic squares, wonder cubes, and odor reproduction. Confirmed speakers include: David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel- “On odor reproduction and how to test for it” Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, University of Leiden, the Netherlands – TBA Juraj Hromkovic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland – “Why P vs. NP is so hard that even magicians failed to solve it” Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida, USA – TBA Juhani Karhumäki, University of Turku, Finland – “Combinatorics on words and k-abelian equivalence” Hermann Maurer, Academia Europaea and Graz University of Technology, Austria: “Some unusual applications of computer science” George Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Romania – TBA Azaria Paz, Technion, Israel – “Linked magic squares on a cube. Theme and variations” Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA – TBA The symposium is free of charge. Details: http://combio.abo.fi/rozenberg75/
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Association CiE:
http://computability.org.uk
CiE Conference Series:
http://illc.uva.nl/CiE
CiE 2017 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CIE.Conference2017
CiE 2017 on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/2017Cie
CiE 2017 on Instagram:
https://instagram.com/cie.2017
SIGCIS@CHM: Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance: Deadline December 30th, 2016
Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance
March 18-19, 2017
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
Call for Papers Deadline: Dec 30 2016
What is Command Lines?
Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance is a meeting that will draw together scholars from a variety of fields that study software. These fields include: the history of computing; science and technology studies; software studies; code studies; game studies; media studies; the study of women, gender and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity and postcoloniality; network and internet histories; and computer science and engineering. Command Lines is collaboratively organized by SIGCIS (Special Interest Group for Computing, Information and Society) and the Computer History Museum.
The meeting will explore how software relates to social and technical constructs of power and performance. Attendees will discuss why connections between the creation and use of software are integral to understanding social and technical power in multiple senses.
Purpose and Theme
The purpose of the meeting, Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance, is to draw together scholars from a variety of fields that study software: the history of computing; science and technology studies; software studies; code studies; game studies; media studies; the study of women, gender and sexuality; studies of race, ethnicity and postcoloniality; network and internet histories; and computer science and engineering. The meeting hopes to explore the connections between the creation and use of software and “power” in multiple senses, and the connection between software and conceptions of technical and cultural “performance.”
The SIGCIS organizing committee now seeks proposals for short papers (15-20 min.) to present new work at the conference. We welcome work that hinges on, links to, or reacts against the themes of the meeting. We also welcome submissions that may not connect specifically with the themes but have bearing on the larger project of SIGCIS–the study of computing and sociotechnical change. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career scholars.
Deadlines and Submission Protocol
Proposals for papers are due by December 30th, 2016. Decisions will be made by January 16th, 2017. Proposals should include:
a one-page abstract (maximum 400 words) addressing the paper’s topic, approach, sources, and relationship to existing literatures
a one-page CV
Please email your proposal to SIGCIS organizing committee by midnight (Pacific time) on December 30th to Conference Assistant kera.allen@gatech.edu.
Financial Support
SIGCIS and the Museum will be able to provide partial financial support to graduate students to present at the meeting. Please note in your proposal if you would like to be considered for a travel award.
Location and Logistics
The meeting events will be held at CHM at 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, CA 94043. During the event, attendees will have access to CHM’s most recent major exhibit on software and its implications, Make Software: Change the World!
There will be no official meeting hotel or transportation. The meeting has a $40 registration fee, waived for graduate and undergraduate students as well as independent scholars. Presenters and attendees may register here. We encourage early registration, as attendance will be limited.
And the website for the meeting is http://meetings.sigcis.org/
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Extension deadline ICHSTM RIO 2017, 23-29 July 2017
The deadline for submitting papers to the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Rio de Janeiro,
23-29 July 2016) has been extended to 16 December 2016.
The submission form can be found at:
http://www.ichst2017.sbhc.org.br/pessoaevento/busca
Members of the commission who would like to contribute to the HAPOC symposium are asked to contact us at info@hapoc.org
Best wishes,
Liesbeth De Mol
First CfP HaPoC-4, Brno 4-7 October 2017
The DHST/DLMPS commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing invites all interested researchers to the
4th International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC)
Brno, 4-7 October 2017
In their societal impact, computers have grown way beyond their roots in mathematics and logic. Their ubiquity since the late 20th century has increased the number and impact of several of the original questions raised by early computer scientists and practitioners: questions about their expected and intended behaviour, as Alan Turing did when asking whether machines can think; questions about their ontology, as John von Neumann did when asking what the computer and the human brain have in common; questions about their role in performing human tasks, as Norbert Wiener did when asking whether automatic translation is possible. With new technologies, the need for rethinking formal and technological issues is crucial.
The computerisation of our lives can hardly leave anyone without opinion. HaPoC’s appeal to historical and philosophical reflection is an invitation to all: designers and manufacturers, computer practitioners, users and artists, logicians and mathematicians, and with the increasing ubiquity of the machine every citizen, with her own experience of the computer.
HaPoC conferences aim to bring together researchers exploring the various aspects of the computer from historical or philosophical standpoint. With Nathan Ensmenger we may say that facts do not change, but our understanding of them does. The series aims at an interdisciplinary focus on computing, rooted in historical and philosophical viewpoints. The conference brings together researchers interested in the historical developments of computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing machines in the contemporary landscape. Past editions of the conference have successfully presented a variety of voices, resulting in fruitful dialogue between researchers of different backgrounds and characteristics. Celebrating the revolutionary exhibition Computer Graphic held in Brno in the spring of 1968, HaPoC emphatically extends the invitation to its fourth international conference to reflections on computers and art.
For HaPoC 2017 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer scientists and mathematicians. We also invite contributions on the use of computers in art. As HaPoC conferences aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, contributions stimulating such discussions are preferable. Topics include but are not limited to:
– History of computation (computational systems, machines, mechanized reasoning, algorithms and programs, communities of computing and their paradigms,…)
– Foundational issues in computer science and computability (models of computability, Church-Turing thesis, formal systems for distributed, cloud and secure computing, semantic theories of programming languages, …)
– Philosophy of computing (computer as brain / mind, epistemological issues, …)
– Computation in the sciences (computer experiments and simulations, computer-aided systems for teaching and research, …)
– Computer and the arts (temporality in digital art; narration in interactive art work, speculative software, programming as a deferred action, computing and affect, performativity of code, eristic of HCI, …)
We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2017
Accepted papers will be presented in 30 minute slots including discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without extended abstract will not be considered.
Deadline for paper submission:
15 May 2017
Notification of acceptance:
15 July 2017
Conference fee:
EUR 150
A limited number of grants will be available.
The conference will be preceded by a special workshop on the reception of Hilbert’s axiomatic method in Eastern Europe on 3 October (Tuesday) – organized by Mate Szabó
Accompanying cultural programme will include the remake of the 1968 Brno exhibition Computer Graphic (featuring Frieder Nake and others), the first computer art exhibition in Eastern Europe, preceding Cybernetic Serendipity by several months, Live coding performance (inspired by the Exhibition Computer Graphic), the concert Exposition of New Music (contemporary music), and field recordings of Brno (student project).
The Long Quest for Computational Thinking
, “The Long Quest for Computational Thinking”, in Proceedings of the 16th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research,, 2016.
HaPoC Special Session at CiE2017
HaPoC Special Session at the Computability in Europe Conference 2017
http://math.utu.fi/cie2017/special-sessions/
History and foundations of recursion, in memory of Rósza Péter (organised by L. de Mol and G. Primiero)
Speakers:
Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)
Jan van Plato (University of Helsinki)
Cliff Jones (Newcastle University, UK)
Hector Zenil (University of Oxford & Karolinska Institute)
2nd CfP: Computability in Europe 2017, June 12-16, 2017, Turku, Finland
CALL FOR PAPERS:
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CiE 2017: Unveiling Dynamics and Complexity
Turku, Finland
June 12-16, 2017
http://math.utu.fi/cie2017
IMPORTANT DATES:
================
Deadline for article submission: January 5, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2017
Final versions due: March 13, 2017
Early registration before: May 8, 2017
CiE 2017 is the thirteenth conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world.
Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponte Dalgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015) and Paris (2016).
THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in all areas related to computability for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2017.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip) and should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome.
The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag.
ORGANIZED BY:
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku
Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University
email: cie2017@utu.fi
WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY PROGRAM AND GRANTS:
==========================================
We are happy to announce that the CiE Women in Computability program, coordinated by the Special Interest Group Women in Computability
http://sat.mdx.ac.uk/cie-wp/index.php/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
offers four grants of up to 250 EUR for junior female researchers who want to participate in CiE 2017. Applications for this grant should be send to Liesbeth De Mol (liesbeth.demol@univ-lille3.fr) before 1 May 2017 and include a short cv (at most 2 pages) and contact information for an academic reference. Preference will be given to junior female researchers who are presenting a paper (including informal presentations) at CiE 2017.
TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
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Denis R. Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago)
Daniel M. Gusfield (University of California, Davis)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
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Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)
Karen Lange (Wellesley College)
Ludovic Patey (Université Paris Diderot)
Nicole Schweikardt (Humboldt-Universit ät zu Berlin)
Alexander Shen (Université de Montpellier)
Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
SPECIAL SESSIONS:
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Algorithmics for biology:
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Organized by Paola Bonizzoni (Milano, Italy) and Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, Finland). Speakers:
Tobias Marschall (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Fabio Vandin (University of Padova)
Gregory Kucherov (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Combinatorics and algorithmics on words:
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Organized by Tero Harju (Turku, Finland) and Dirk Nowotka (Kiel, Germany). Speakers:
Stepan Holub (Charles University in Prague)
Pascal Ochem (Université de Montpellier)
Svetlana Puzynina (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Narad Rampersad (University of Winnipeg)
Computability in analysis, algebra, and geometry:
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Organized by Julia Knight (Notre Dame, USA) and Andrey Morozov (Novosibirsk, Russia). Speakers:
Saugata Basu (Purdue University)
Margarita Korovina (University of Aarhus)
Alexander Melnikov (University of California, Berkeley)
Russell Miller (Queens College, City University of New York)
Cryptography and information theory:
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Organized by Delaram Kahrobaei (New York, USA) and Helger Lipmaa (Tartu, Estonia). Speakers:
Jean-Charles Faugère (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh-Scotland, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh)
Ivan Visconti (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Formal languages and automata theory:
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Organized by Juhani Karhumäki (Turku, Finland) and Alexander Okhotin (St. Petersburg, Russia). Speakers: TBA
History and philosophy of computing:
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Organized by Liesbeth De Mol (Lille, France) and Giuseppe Primiero (London, United Kingdom). Speakers: TBA
Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of:
Andrew Arana (Urbana-Champaign, US)
Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, UK)
Paola Bonizzoni (Milan, IT)
Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, FR)
Vasco Brattka (Munich, DE)
Cristian S. Calude (Auckland, NZ)
Ann Copestake (Cambridge, UK)
Liesbeth De Mol (Lille, FR)
Helena Durnová (Brno, CZ)
Ekaterina Fokina (Vienna, AT)
Tero Harju (Turku, FI)
Emmanuel Jeandel (Nancy, FR)
Emil Jeřábek (Prague, CZ)
Natašha Jonoska (Tampa, US)
Jarkko Kari (Turku, FI, co-chair)
Viv Kendon (Durham, UK)
Takayuki Kihara (Berkley, US)
Florin Manea (Kiel, DE)
Klaus Meer (Cottbus, DE)
Russell Miller (New York City, US)
Bernard Moret (Lausanne, CH)
Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, DE)
Dag Normann (Oslo, NO)
Dirk Nowotka (Kiel, DE)
Isabel Oitavem (Lisbon, PT)
Ion Petre (Turku, FI, co-chair)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, CA)
Reed Solomon (Storrs, US)
Mariya Soskova (Sofia, BG)
Susan Stepney (York, UK)
Peter Van Emde Boas (Amsterdam, NL)
Philip Welch (Bristol, UK)
Damien Woods (Pasadena, US)
Association CiE:
http://computability.org.uk
CiE Conference Series:
http://illc.uva.nl/CiE
CiE 2017 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CIE.Conference2017
CiE 2017 on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/2017Cie
CiE 2017 on Instagram:
https://instagram.com/cie.2017
TURRIANO ICOHTEC PRIZE
The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize (formerly ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars) is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23-29 July 2017 (http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting-2017.html [1]). An additional 500 Euro is available to the winner in support of travelling to the conference to receive the prize.
ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology, focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
Eligible for the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of technology: published or unpublished Ph.D. dissertations or other monographs written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37 years. Articles and edited anthologies are not eligible.
For the 2017 Turriano ICOHTEC Prize (http://www.icohtec.org/resources-prizes-turriano-icohtec.html [2]) please send an electronic copy (Pdf or Word) of the work you wish to be considered for the prize to each of the three Prize Committee members. (Note: Hard copies are only accepted for published works not available electronically.) YOUR SUBMISSIONS MUST BE EMAILED NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2017. If your book is in Spanish or Russian, please also supply a summary in English, French or German of about 4,500 words. In that case, the prize committee will find additional members, who are familiar with the language in which your book is written. Please also include an abstract of no more than a half-page in length.
If the work is a Ph.D. thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2015 or 2016; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2015 or 2016. The submission should be accompanied by a CV (indicating also the date of birth) and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add references or reviews on the work submitted.
Any materials sent to the prize committee will not be returned.
Send a complete application by email to each of the following Prize Committee members:
Dr. Jeremy Kinney, Prize Committee Chair
Curator, Aeronautics Department Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum P.O. 37012, MRC 312 Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA E-mail: kinneyj@si.edu
Dr. Yoel Bergman Associate Researcher Cohen Institute, Tel-Aviv University 20 Hatzmaut st. Herzliya 46789 Israel E-mail: yoelb@protalix.com, bergm@post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Irina Gouzevitch Centre Maurice Halbwachs École Normale Supérieure 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 PARIS E-mail: igouzevitch@ens.fr
Dr. Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums of Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF UK E-mail: K.Staubermann@nms.ac.uk
HaPoC related website at Middlesex University
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This site collects information and references related to the History and Philosophy of Computing as part of the teaching and research activities of the Foundations of Computing Group at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University London. Our research focuses extensively on the LEO Computers, through a Master Studentship in Business Computing and currently a PhD Studentship funded by the Association for Information Technology Trust and supported by the Caminer Family. Teaching activities include an optional module for the BSc Computer Science Programme in History and Philosophy of Computing (Module Leader: Giuseppe Primiero).
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