| Monday, May 17 | ||
| 8:30 - 12:10 | On-site registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Opening (Matthias Scheutz, Organizer) | |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Presidential Address (Georg Dorffner, University of Vienna, ASoCS) | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Introduction: The "New Computationalism"
Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame,USA, University of Vienna, ASoCS, Austria |
Abstract |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Four Dialectics of Computing
Brian Smith, Indiana University Bloomington, USA |
Abstract |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Transparent Computationalism
Ronald Chrisley, University of Sussex, UK |
Abstract |
| 11:10 - 12:10 | Embedding Computation
Georg Schwarz,University of Vienna, Austria |
Abstract |
| Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Ideas about a New Computationalism:
Its possible limits and its relation to VR-Technologies
Rainer Born, University of Linz, ASoCS, Austria |
Abstract |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Computationalism - The Very
Idea
David Davenport, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey |
Abstract |
| Coffee break | ||
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Poster Session | Abstracts |
| 19:30 | Welcome reception and dinner at Harmer's Bar | |
| Tuesday, May 18 | ||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Productivity and the Progam/Memory
Distinction
Oron Shagrir, The Hebrew University, Israel |
Abstract |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Why a closed, rule-governed,
'digital' system need not be a formal system: the case of the ancient game
of Go
Adrian Cussins, University of Illinois at Urbana, USA |
Abstract |
| Coffee break | ||
| 10:40 - 12:10 | Workshop on
Formality
Session led by Adrian Cussins |
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| Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | No Cognition without Representation?
Dynamical Computationalism and the Emulation Theory of Represenation Samir Chopra, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA |
Abstract |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Authentic Intentionality
John Haugeland, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
Abstract |
| Coffee break | ||
| 15:40 - 17:20 | Workshop on
Intentionality
Session led by John Haugeland |
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| 17:20 - 17:50 | Part Binding in a Noisy
Environment by Dynamic Binding of Synfire Chains
Gaby Hayon, Moshe Abeles, Daniel Lehmann, The Hebrew University, Israel |
Abstract |
| Wednesday, May 19 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | The Rumors of its Demise
have been Greatly Exaggerated
David Israel, Stanford University, SRI International, USA |
Abstract |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Workshop on
Is there Life in the Old Paradigm?
Session led by David Israel |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 11:40 - 12:40 | Narrow Versus Wide Mechanism
Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury, NZ |
Abstract |
| Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop on
Mechanism
Session led by Jack Copeland |
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| 15:30 - 15:50 | Ideas about
a New Computationalism
Rainer Born, University of Linz, ASoCS, Austria |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Workshop on
Computationalism,
Incompleteness and the Communication of Knowledge
Session led by Rainer Born |
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| 17:30 - 19:00 | Film showing: Kurt Gödel--Ein Mathematischer Mythos | |
| Thursday, May 20 | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Out of the Box: How AI Got
Computers Wrong
Phil Agre, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Abstract |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Workshop on
Social Context
Session led by Phil Agre |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 11:40 - 12:40 | Symbold Grounding and the
Origin of Language
Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK |
Abstract |
| Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop on
The Peekaboo Role of Consciousness in Cognitive Modeling
Session led by Stevan Harnad |
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| 15:30 - 15:50 | Prospects for
the Philosophy of Computation
Brian C. Smith, Indiana University Bloomington, USA |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Workshop on
Philosophy of Computation
Session led by Brian Smith |
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| 17:30 - 17:45 | Resume (Matthias Scheutz, Organizer) | |