Re: E-conf. preparations

Dear Pedro:

The plans appear to be taking shape nicely.

What will be the conference duration?

A comment about the title...

As noted earlier, part of the confusion may come from interchanging
the concept of communication with information. Should the title
include the term communication?

Cheers

Jerry

>Dear FISers,
>
>The preparations for the fis elect. conf. are advancing. It will take place
>around 2nd May 2002. A scientific advisory board including a balanced
>representation of disciplines, countries, and trends within the fis
>initiative is almost formed. We are also closer to having a final title.
>The proposed initial one was ON INFORMATION: ITS NATURE, ITS
>MISCONCEPTIONS. But there is some more preferences for the following: THE
>NATURE OF INFORMATION: CONCEPTIONS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND PARADOXES (there
>have been a few extra suggestions, but these two are clearly leading the
>pack).
>
>The technical organizer is a Swiss infotech company (as a reference of
>similar works, see http://www.mdpi.net/ec-list.htm ) with scientific
>interests pretty close to our own orientations. The contributors to the
>conference (in principle, it is open to all fis members--with a minimum
>review for outsiders) will be granted a web and CD publication of their
>contribution, plus a special issue in the elect. journal Entropy (maybe
>selected papers, depending on the total number of contributions). It will
>imply no cost for us. After the "vernissage day" (2nd may) hanging all the
>papers simultaneously, there will be a round of comments and discussions
>(perhaps a first, brief phase with just overall comments, and a second
>phase closer to our long discussions of the past, moderated by section
>chairs).
>
>Please, in order to produce a short presentation text and a "catholic" list
>of suggested conf. topics, I will much appreciate receiving inputs from all
>interested parties, either privately to my individual address or to this
>collective fis address. We are planning to make the official
>web-announcement in around one or two weeks. The technical organizers will
>also appreciate receiving suggestions on possible companies helping to
>support the costs of the event (it could also help us to finance a future
>fis "real" venue)... Their addresses are: lin@mdpi.org, barry.hardy@mdpi.org
>
>Some of the above details may still change, but at the time being the whole
>project looks pretty robust.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Pedro
>
>
>
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>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 Thu Dec 6 05:39:49 2001