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Call Postdoc Position at University of Pretoria

CALL for APPLICATIONS: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA / CENTRE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, SOUTH AFRICA

This is a call for a postdoctoral position at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria (UP). Please see the University’s website (http://www.up.ac.za) and click on Postdoctoral Fellows for more
information. 

We are specifically interested in someone who will be able to contribute to research in the intersection between knowledge representation from a computer science point of view and knowledge representation issues in philosophy of
science. The successful applicant will have a joint postdoc in Philosophy at the University of Pretoria and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), with a strong possibility of a salary topup funded by CAIR (http://www.cair.za.net).   

Please notify Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem at emma.ruttkamp-bloem@up.ac.za and Thomas Meyer at tmeyer@cs.uct.ac.za BEFORE 17 August if you are intending to apply. (Note the university closing date for applications is 28 August.)

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News from DHST

We are happy to let you know that the website of the 25th ICHST, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, 23-29
July 2017 is now online at:

http://www.ichst2017.sbhc.org.br/

This is the main conference organized by DHST (Division for the History of Science and Technology) . The Congress organisers have also issued the first Circular of the Congress. It can be downloaded from the DHST Website:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGhzdHdlYi5vcmd8d3d3fGd4OjE0NWU4ODJhZDZlZDc0ZGU

As for each Congress in the ICHST series, commissions are expected to submit at least one symposium to the Congress. If any of our members would be interested in proposing a HAPoC-relevant symposium please do not hesitate to contact us at hapoc@info.org

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Organisers for HaPoC Special Session at CiE 2016

In the last few years, the Computability in Europe Conference Series has hosted a Special Session on the History and Philosophy of Computing, organised in concert with the HaPoC Commission. The next CiE Conference will take place at the University of Paris 7, France. Also in this occasion, the HaPoC Commission has been asked to organise a Special Session and two colleagues have accepted to be in charge of selecting the Speakers for this event. We are now very pleased to announce the Organisers for the HaPoC Special Session at Cie2016:

– Ksenia Tatarchenko, NYU Shangai
– Alberto Naibo, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne