Re: timely FIS proposals

Dear Pedro,

The virtual conference sounds like a great idea. Another follow-up venue, to
the virtual conference, may be the 2002 ISSS conference in Shanghai in early
August.

Regards,

Bela

""Pedro C. Mariju�n"" wrote:

> Dear Bela --and fis colleagues:
>
> Many thanks for your organizing efforts. They are a real contribution to
> keep our fis project alive. In addition to your timely proposals we have
> another two initiatives around (unfortunately the Spanish Airtel Foundation
> who promised funding a fis conference in Spain did not honor its word--I
> will keep trying anyhow):
>
> - an effort to finance a specific fis venue by Ted Goranson in the US
>
> - and a virtual fis conference, to be promoted by Shu-Khun (elect. journal
> "Entropy") and I.
>
> If enough fis people find it a good idea, we could go first for the virtual
> conference. We would "hang" in the net, in a special issue of the e.journal
> Entropy, all our contributions,simultaneously, around january
> -february--march of next year (basically depending on Shu-Khun technical
> capabilities to handle the timing). And then we could have a discussion on
> the papers either globally or section by section (depending on the number
> of papers presented).
>
> The title proposed is MISCONCEPTIONS OF INFORMATION. It resonates with the
> closing comments in Bela's message. In a number of fields --computer
> science, machine intelligence, economics and social science, brain
> processing, cellular signalling, Darwinian evolution, molecular similarity,
> entropy and quantum interpretations...-- we find bizarre conceptualizations
> about Information that seem to we working very limitedly, only on a very
> local basis, and mutually disconnected. Overall these misconceptions
> (although partially positive in most cases) may be acting as efficient
> Surrogates that block the advancement towards new, more interesting
> unifying conceptualizations.
>
> We could devote some time to exorcize all those local demons, in a virtual
> conference and also in a real meeting (either genuine fis or in
> collaboration). At least, such recollection of criticisms may be helpful to
> inspirate us in future "positive" constructions...
>
> Any comments or suggestions about the organization of this virtual
> conference, or about plans for the fis future will be welcome.
>
> best wishes
>
> Pedro
>
> PS. After countless problems in this Uni, I have finally succeeded in the
> introduction of two "info science" disciplines for graduate engineering
> students here: "bioinformation" and a "science-tech-society" course
> centered on information. We could put together in our web pages any FIS
> teaching experiences (I remember at least a very good PhD course by Andrei
> and Igor).
>
> =========================================
> Pedro C. Mariju�n
> Fundaci�n CIRCE
> CPS Univ. Zaragoza, 50015 Zaragoza, Spain
> TEL. (34) 976 762036-761863, FAX (34) 976 732078
> email: marijuan@posta.unizar.es
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Received on Tue Nov 13 22:16:18 2001