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Second cfp -- International conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, 7-10 Nov., 2011
by Liesbeth De Mol 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Dear all, I hope this second CfP for the International conference on the history and philosophy of computing will interest some of you. Note that the submission deadline is May 15, 2011, very best regards, Liesbeth. ------------------APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing 7―10 November 2011 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the famous 1936 Papers by A. Church, E.L. Post and A.M. Turing. From 7-10 November 2011 the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University organizes an International Conference on the History and Philosophy of computing. The number of researchers working in fields related to computing is growing rapidly in many different directions. As Mahoney once stated, “the computer is not one thing but many different things, and the same holds true of computing”. As a consequence, the computing sciences collect the most diverse complex of experts: philosophers, logicians, historians, mathematicians, computer scientists, programmers, engineers. The number of involved subjects grows accordingly: from the foundational issues to their applications; from the philosophical questions to problems of realizability and design of specifications; from the theoretical studies of computational barriers to the relevance of machines for educational purposes. Given the significance of computing for modern society, the relevance of its history and philosophy can hardly be overestimated. The aim of this conference is to bring together these two streams: we are strongly convinced that an interplay between researchers with an interest in the history and philosophy of computing can crucially add to the maturity of the field. Topics of the conference include but are not restricted to: • The history of computing • Philosophical, foundational and practical issues of computability in logic, mathematics and computer science • Computation in the sciences For a more detailed list of possible topics see http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/cfp SUBMISSION DETAILS: 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) to https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hapoc11 Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be .pdf or .doc. In order to access the submission page, the creation of an EasyChair account will be required. Please notice that what is called “abstract” in the EasyChair “Title, Abstract and Other Information” section corresponds to the short abstract of this call, and what is called “paper” in the EasyChair “Upload Paper” section corresponds to the extended abstract of this call. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: May 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2011 Deadline for Registration: 23 October, 2011 INVITED SPEAKERS: Bill Aspray (University of Texas) Martin Davis (New York University, UC Berkeley) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin) Giovanni Sambin (Universita' di Padova) Raymond Turner (University of Essex) Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research) CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero, Dagmar Provijn, Jean-Paul van Bendegem PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:  G. Alberts (Amsterdam); S. Artemov (New York); M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick); L. Corry (Tel Aviv) M. Denecker (Leuven); A. Eden (Essex); L. Floridi (Oxford& Hertfordshire); R. Kahle (Lisbon); B. Loewe (Amsterdam); J. Meheus (Ghent); E. Myin (Antwerp); S. Negri (Helsinki) V. de Paiva (Palo Alto); S. Smets (Groningen); G. Sundholm (Leiden); C. Toffalori (Camerino); J.-.P. van Bendegem (Brussels); M. van Dyck (Ghent); B. van Kerkhove (Brussels& Hasselt); E. Weber (Ghent) REGISTRATION The registration to the conference will soon be opened at the following webpage: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/registration Note that it is required for all attendees to register. It has been our policy to keep registration fees as low as possible. IACAP members also have a 10% discount on the fee. The following fees apply: Regular fee: 150 EUR IACAP members: 135 EUR Graduate Students: 100 EUR This includes coffee breaks, the conference dinner and the book of abstracts. Accompanying persons: 50 EUR (dinner only). GRANTS The International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://ia-cap.org/ will fund a $500 travel grant for an IACAP graduate student to attend. IACAP graduate students who would like to apply for this grant need to send a copy of their submission to Tony Beavers (executivedirector(a)ia-cap.org) executive director of IACAP. The Association also offers a 10% discount on the conference fee for IACAP members.   Student members of the Association for Symbolic Logic http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm also may apply for ASL travel support. Applications have to be addressed directly to the ASL. For more information and application details on ASL student travel awards see http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html Note that the deadline for application is 7, 2011.  SPECIAL ISSUES A selection of papers will be published as a special issue of the journal Philosophy& Technology (Springer) http://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of +science/journal/13347 We also intend to publish a selection of papers in a special issue of History and Philosophy of Logic (Taylor& Francis) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/thplauth.asp More details will follow later. CONTACT AND INFORMATION: For further information please contact us at:  computing.conference(a)ugent.be or have a look at our website: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be

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From Dag Spicer: News from the Computer History Museum
by Thomas Haigh 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

[Dag's been hit by the intermittent email/DNS glitch whereby a mailserver refuses to relay to the list. Tom.] Dear SIGCIS Friends, Just a couple of updates: 1. Our annual Museum Fellow Awards take place on April 30 in Mountain View, Calif. This year our inductees are: Bill Joy, For his work on the BSD Unix system and co-founding of Sun Microsystems. Whit Diffie, Ralph Merkle, Martin Hellman, for the invention of public-key cryptography. More details here: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-Computer-History-Museum-Announce s-Its-2011-Fellow-Award-Honorees-1412458.htm 2. Revolution is now online! Be sure to check out the online version of our new 25,000 sq ft exhibition, Revolution: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution I am interested in feedback from SIGCIS members on the site so please be in touch. Dag -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing NOW OPEN!! Learn more: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory The original message was received at Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:16:47 -0700 from ritchie.hq.computerhistory.org [192.168.98.19] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <members(a)sigcis.org> (reason: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected members(a)sigcis.org) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to charlemagne.cddc.vt.edu.: >>> DATA <<< 450 4.7.1 <members(a)sigcis.org>: Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable <members(a)sigcis.org>... Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <members(a)sigcis.org>: Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable <<< 554 5.5.1 Error: no valid recipients ... while talking to mailstore1.secureserver.net.: >>> RCPT To:<members(a)sigcis.org> <<< 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected members(a)sigcis.org 550 5.1.1 <members(a)sigcis.org>... User unknown >>> DATA <<< 503 #5.5.1 RCPT first _____ Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.computerhistory.org Received-From-MTA: DNS; ritchie.hq.computerhistory.org Arrival-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:16:47 -0700 Final-Recipient: RFC822; members(a)sigcis.org Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mailstore1.secureserver.net Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected members(a)sigcis.org Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:16:49 -0700 _____ Received: from ritchie.hq.computerhistory.org (ritchie.hq.computerhistory.org [192.168.98.19]) by smtp.computerhistory.org (Sentrion-MTA-4.1.0/Sentrion-MTA-4.1.0) with ESMTP id p3BFGj25006208 for <members(a)sigcis.org>; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:16:47 -0700 Received: from 192.168.99.10 ([192.168.99.10]) by ritchie.hq.computerhistory.org ([192.168.98.19]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:16:45 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.4.0.080122 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:16:44 -0700 Subject: News from the Computer History Museum From: Dag Spicer <spicer(a)computerhistory.org> To: <members(a)sigcis.org> Message-ID: <C9C8696C.3F3E4%spicer(a)computerhistory.org> Thread-Topic: News from the Computer History Museum Thread-Index: Acv4W3d0tfGC8GROEeCkywAcs8FqAQ== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3385354604_17097094" X-Spam-Score: 0.00% X-Spam-Score: 0% X-Spam-Analysis: Skipped. Message Direction = outbound X-Spam-Reason: Skipped. Message Direction = outbound

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Edwin Nixon
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

If anyone came across this person who became the head of IBM UK in the 1970s until circa 1985 (joined in 1957), I would much appreciate it. I am trying to write a small piece on him and are running on a shoe string in terms of information. Many thanks Bernardo Bangor University

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