NEWS

is4si summit 2021 Tohoku, Japan (online)
IS4SI 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021/home
International Society for the Study of Information
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/

is4si summit 2019 Berkeley, USA
International Society for the Study of Information
University of California Berkeley,  https://is4si2019.github.io/

Gothenburg Summit in Pictures and in Words

Gothenburg summit of is4si 2017 is over. What remains is to systematize the variety of impressions in pictures and words. If you have some special photos you want to share, send them to Gordana.

And then of course, the huge work will start soon on publication of full articles in variety of journals and books, see http://is4si-2017.org/publications/

We will be back soon with more information.

But first we celebrate summer here in Gothenburg, as today it is Midsummer Eve.

More information on Gothenburg meeting can be found in Twitter
https://twitter.com/is4si_online that has some nice pictures and in the following  blog:

CONFERENCE WELCOME BY CHALMERS PRESIDENT STEFAN BENGTSSON

AND GOTHENBURG CITY WITH REGION VÄSTRA GÖTALAND

WELCOME ADDRESS

Stefan Bengtsson

Stefan Bengtsson

WELCOME ADDRESS

Elisabet ROTHENBERG,
Deputy Lord Mayor Gothenburg City
Martin ANDREASSON,
Region Västra Götaland

KEYNOTES

Terrence Deacon, Yixin Zhong, Pedro C. Marijuan, Sara Spiekermann, Mark Burgin, Olle Häggström, Wu Kun, Jack Copeland

Terrence Deacon, University of California, Berkeley:
THE BIOSEMIOTIC EMERGENCE OF REFERENTIAL INFORMATION

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology:
CYBER-HUMAN PARTNERSHIPS – TOWARDS A RESILIENT ECOSYSTEM IN SMART CITIES

Yixin Zhong, University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing:
A THEORY OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION

Sarah Spiekermann, Vienna University of Economics and Business:
IEEE P7000 – THE FIRST GLOBAL STANDARD PROCESS FOR ADDRESSING ETHICAL CONCERNS IN SYSTEM DESIGN

Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology:
SHOULD APOCALYPTIC AI SCENARIOS BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY?

Wu KunKun Wu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an:
PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION LEADING TO THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY

Pedro C. Marijuan, Aragon Institute of Health Sciences (IACS):
INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE LIVING CELL: A FUNDAMENTAL HIATUS FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE?

Mark Burgin, University of California, Los Angeles:
THE GENERAL THEORY OF INFORMATION AS A UNIFYING FACTOR FOR INFORMATION STUDIES

Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury, Christchurch:
PHYSICAL UNCOMPUTABILITY AND THE NATURE OF INFORMATION-PROCESSING

Bo Dahlbom, University of Gothenburg:
THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

PANELS

INFORMATION, COMPUTATION, COGNITION:
AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID?

Moderator: Terrence Deacon
Panelists: Ron Chrisley, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Marcin Miłkowski, Marcin Schroeder, Peter Boltuc

THE GOOD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SOCIETY –
FROM THEORY TO ACTIONS

Moderator: Gunilla Bradley
Panelists: Åse Victorin, Darek Haftor, Olle Häggström

INFORMATION ETHICS –
DIGITAL ETHICS

Moderator: Rafael Capurro
Panelists: Marco Schneider, Anna Suorsa, Francesca Vidal, Lyn Robinson, Sarah Spiekermann

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Moderator: Anna Nilsson-Ehle
Panelists: Ivica Crnkovic, Patrizio Pelliccione, Marco Fratarcangeli

THE ROLE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES

Moderator: Carsten Sorensen
Panelists: Jan Ljungberg, Lars Svensson

THE FUTURE OF WORK

Moderator: Bo Dahlbom
Panelists: The whole audience via Kahoot

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR A MACHINE TO HAVE NON-REDUCTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS?

Moderator: Piotr Bołtuć
Panelists: Igor Aleksander, Ron Chrisley,
Jack Copeland

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR A MACHINE TO HAVE NON-REDUCTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS?

Moderator: Piotr Bołtuć
Panelists: Igor Aleksander, Ron Chrisley,
Jack Copeland

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Moderator: Anna Nilsson-Ehle
Panelists: Ivica Crnkovic, Patrizio Pelliccione, Marco Fratarcangeli

THE ROLE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES

Moderator: Carsten Sorensen
Panelists: Jan Ljungberg, Lars Svensson

DIGITAL IDENTITY IN SOCIETY
AND ITS ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

Moderators: David Sands & Rafael Capurro
Panelists: Marco Schneider, Jared Bielby, Göran Collste

ECOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY FOR STUDIES OF INFORMATION

Organizer: Yixin Zhong
Panelists: Kang Ouyang, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Mark Burgin, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Pedro Marijuan, Jiyi Yan

ECOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY IN INFORMATION STUDIES

Organizer: Yixin Zhong
Panelists: Kang Ouyang, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Mark Burgin, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Pedro Marijuan, Jiyi Yan

AGEING AND TECHNOLOGIES
Moderators: Michela Cozza &
Lucia Crevani
Panelists: Göran Collste, Alexander Peine, Hilda Tellioglu, Christine Gustafsson,

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS HIGHLIGHTS

Hector Zenil

Mats Viberg

Elena Fersman

Diana Arellano & Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas

Rao Mikkilineni

Søren Brier

Anette Grathof

Joseph Brenner

Lorenzo Magnani

Raffaela Giovagnoli & Yogi Hendlin

Ron Chrisley

Jordi Vallverdu

Devdatt Dubashi

REPORTS

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

China delegation leaders

Yixin Zhong – China Chapter

Wolfgang Hofkirchner – Treasurer report

BOOK EXHIBITION

Tobias Holstein

MOMENT OF INSPIRATION – BEAUTIFUL SPONTANEOUS PIANO PLAY

GLIMPSES FROM SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC EVENTS

Bo Dahlbom – Banquet address

AI Dance performance

Hans-Jörg Kreowski – performing concrete poetry dedicated to the summit

Palle Dahlstedt – performing generative algorithmic music

Louise Crnkovic-Friis – AI coreographer

MORE ABOUT ARTISTIC EVENTS (VIDEOS):

ARTIFICIAL DANCE

GENERATIVE MUSIC

EXCURSION TO ELFSBORG FORTRESS

Raffaela Giovagnoli

PHD STUDENTS CELEBRATING SUCCESSFUL DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM BY THE TRIP ON PÄR’S BOAT WITH A SUBSEQUENT VISIT TO A RESTAURANT

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF IS4SI TERRENCE DEACON
OF THE  NEXT SUMMIT IN 2019 @ SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY

Terrence Deacon’s announcement of the next is4si summit 2019

NEW PRESIDENT ELECT MARCIN SCHROEDER OF AKITA UNIVERSITY JAPAN

Marcin J. Schroeder

CLOSING SESSION: THANK YOU ALL FOR WONDERFUL GOTHENBURG MEETING 2017!

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Pär Meiling

POST CONFERENCE COLLECTION – ALBUM WITH CONTRIBUTED PICTURES OF GOTHENBURG MEETING

Terry Deacon and Marcin Schroeder

Terry Deacon and Marcin Schroeder

Genxian Cao and Marcin Schroeder

Jack Copeland and Rao Mikilineni

Gunilla Bradley, Åse Victorin, Darek Haftor, Olle Häggström

Markus Wallmyr & David Lindström

David Chapman

David Chapman

Fredrika Lagergren Wahlin

Magnus Ramage

Wolfgang Hofkirchner