Contents

• Description
• Online Proceedings (at MIT's CogNet)
• Invited Speakers
• Organization and Sponsorship
• View Impressions from the Conference (gathered by David Davenport)
• View the Schedule

Description

The international conference and workshop NTCS'99 brought together theorists working on identifying a "successor" notion of computation-one that not only respects the classical (and critical) limiting results about algorithms, grammars, complexity bounds, etc., but that also does justice to real-world concerns of daily computational practice, and thereby offers a much better chance of serving as a possible foundation for a realistic theory of mind.  The workshop section focused on the prospects for developing a theory that takes computing not to be not abstract, syntactic, disembodied, isolated, and non-intentional, but concrete, semantic, embodied, interactive, and intentional.

Invited Speakers

NTCS'99 featured lectures by the following speakers:

• Phil Agre, University of California, Los Angeles
• Rainer Born, University of Linz
• Jack B. Copeland, University of Canterbury
• Adrian Cussins, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton
• John Haugeland, University of Pittsburgh
• David Israel, SRI International
• Brian C. Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington

Organization and Sponsorship

Organizer: Matthias Scheutz (University of Vienna, University of Notre Dame, ASoCS)

Sponsors:

• Austrian Society of Cognitive Science
• Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna
• Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, University of Linz
• Department of Information Systems, Database and Expert Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology
• Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (IMKAI) , University of Vienna
• Austrian Ministry of Science and Traffic
• Austrian Research Association

© Matthias Scheutz
Department of Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of Science
University of Vienna, Austria
Last modified on October 4, 1999.