Special Issue of HPL on History and Philosophy of Computer Science

The Journal History and Philosophy of Logic (Taylor & Francis) is publishing a Special Issue on “Logical Issues in the History and Philosophy of Computer Science”, edited by Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero. The issue contains articles presented at various HaPoC Events. The contents are all online now:

Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero
When Logic Meets Engineering: Introduction to Logical Issues in the History and Philosophy of Computer Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2015.1084183

Edgar G. Daylight
Towards a Historical Notion of ‘Turing—the Father of Computer Science’
DOI:10.1080/01445340.2015.1082050

Selmer Bringsjord
A Vindication of Program Verification
DOI:10.1080/01445340.2015.1065461

Maarten Bullynck
Programming Primes (1968–1976): A Paradigmatic Program and Its Incarnations in the Age of Structured Programming
DOI:10.1080/01445340.2015.1065459

Graham White
Hardware, Software, Humans: Truth, Fiction and Abstraction
DOI:10.1080/01445340.2015.1059992

Felice Cardone
Continuity in Semantic Theories of Programming
DOI:10.1080/01445340.2015.1054576

CfP: HOPOS 2016

HOPOS 2016 Call for Submissions
June 22-25, 2016, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
http://hopos2016.umn.edu/

Keynote Speakers

Karine Chemla, REHSEIS, CNRS, and Université Paris Diderot

Thomas Uebel, University of Manchester

HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science will hold its eleventh international congress in Minneapolis, on June 22-25, 2016. The Society hereby requests proposals for papers and for symposia to be presented at the meeting. HOPOS is devoted to promoting research on the history of the philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to include topics in the history of related disciplines, including computing, in all historical periods, studied through diverse methodologies. In order to encourage scholarly exchange across the temporal reach of HOPOS, the program committee especially encourages submissions that take up philosophical themes that cross time periods. If you have inquiries about the conference or about the submission process, please write to Maarten van Dyck: maarten.vandyck [at] ugent.be.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 4, 2016

To submit a proposal for a paper or symposium, please visit the conference website: http://hopos2016.umn.edu/call-submissions

In Memoriam: S. Barry Cooper

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing away of Barry Cooper on Monday, 26 October. Barry has been a great inspiration to many of us. His work for establishing a truly interdisciplinary and open community around computability, through the CiE Association and the Turing celebrations, has been inspiring for the HaPoC community in many ways and will keep affecting our own work for many years to come. Barry was involved in various HaPoC events and under his presidency the Conference of the CiE Association established a HaPoC Special Session as part of the standard programme. His enthusiasm, passion and generosity have made this possible and will hopefully find echoes in our own research. The HaPoC Community, like so many involved in the study of computability and beyond, will miss him greatly.

CfP CiE 2016: Pursuit of the Universal, June 27 – July 1, 2016, Paris

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CiE 2016: Pursuit of the Universal

Paris, France

June 27 – July 1st, 2016

http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/CIE2016/

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline for contributed papers: December 15, 2015
Notification of authors: March 3, 2016
Deadline for final revisions: March 31, 2016

CiE 2016 is the twelfth 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
Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014)
and Bucharest (2015).

CiE 2016’s Motto is: “Pursuit of the Universal”. The year 2016 brings
the eightieth anniversary of the publication of Alan Turing’s seminal paper
featuring the Universal Turing Machine. Just as the semantics of the machine
gave rise to Incomputability, and pointed to future directions in proof theory,
AI, generalised computability, the underlying role of typed information and
natural language, and the computability and definability underpinning
bioinformatics: so our conference subtitle honours Turing’s role in anticipating
the quest for universal computational frameworks across a wide spectrum of
scientific and humanist disciplines.

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:

Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University)
Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech)
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Vasco Brattka (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
Barry Cooper (University of Leeds)
Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin)
André Nies (University of Auckland)
Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle)
Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut)

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

Computable and constructive analysis (organizers: Daniel Graça, Elvira Mayordomo)
Computation in bio-chemical systems (organizers: Alessandra Carbone, Ion Petre)
Cryptography and information theory (organizers: Danilo Gligoroski, Carles Padro)
History and philosophy of computing (organizers: Liesbeth de Mol, Giuseppe Primiero)
Symbolic dynamics (organizers: Jarkko Kari, Reem Yassawi)
Weak arithmetics (organizers: Lev Beklemishev, Stanislas Speranski)

Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the
PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of:

Marcella Anselmo (Università di Salerno)
Nathalie Aubrun (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Georgios Barmpalias (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Marie-Pierre Beal (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University)
Laurent Bienvenu (Université Paris 7), PC co-chair
Paola Bonizzoni (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Alessandra Carbone (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Douglas Cenzer (University of Florida)
Liesbeth De-Mol (Université Lille 3)
David Doty (University of California Davis)
Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d’Orléans)
Volker Diekert (Universität Stuttgart)
Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham)
François Fages (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt)
Enrico Formenti (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Daniela Genova (University of North Florida)
Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington)
Valentina Harizanov, (George Washington University)
Hajime Ishihara (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida), PC co-chair
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario)
Margarita Korovina (University of Manchester)
Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford)
Karen Lange (Wellesley College)
Benedikt Löwe (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Florin Manea (Kiel University)
Paulin de Naurois (Université Paris 13), Organizing committee chair
Keng Meng Selwyn Ng (Nanyang Technological University)
Arno Pauly (University of Cambridge)
Mario Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Sevilla)
Ion Petre (Åbo Akademi University)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London)
Alexis Saurin (Université Paris 7)
Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications Tokyo)
Paul Shafer (Ghent University)
Alexander Shen (Université Montpellier 3)
Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University)
Mariya Soskova (Sofia University)

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=cie2016

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.

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