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Extended deadline Feb 15 for NTCS99 on Computationalism

Matthias Scheutz Matthias.Scheutz at univie.ac.at
Fri Jan 15 15:59:14 EST 1999


EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 15, 1999
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International Conference and Workshop in Vienna, May 17-20
New Trends in Cognitive Science 1999: Computationalism - The Next Generatio=
n

http://www.univie.ac.at/cognition/conf/ntcs99/

Invited speakers
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     Phil Agre, University of California, Los Angeles=20
     Rainer Born, University of Linz=20
     Jack B. Copeland, University of Canterbury=20
     Adrian Cussins, University of Illinois, Urbana=20
     Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton=20
     John Haugeland, University of Pittsburgh=20
     David Israel, SRI International=20
     Brian C. Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington=20

Purpose
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This international conference and workshop organized by the Austrian
Society of Cognitive Science attemps to bring together theorists working
on identifying a "successor" notion of computation, =97one 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 will focus on the prospects for developing a
theory that takes computing not to be not abstract, syntactic,
disembodied, isolated, and non-intentional=97butconcrete, semantic,
embodied, interactive, and intentional. If such a successor notion of
computation can be defined, the resulting rehabilitated computationalism
may still be our best bet for explaining cognition.

It is hoped that this conference will set the agenda for a "philosophy of
computation" that will tackle such as issues as: the program/process
distinction; the notion of implementation and questions of physical
realization; real-time constraint and real-world interaction; the use and
limitations of models; relations between concrete and abstract; the proper
interpretation of complexity results; etc.  Addressing such questions is a
critical prerequisite for providing a firm foundation for cognitive
science in the new century.

Paper submission
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Submitted manuscripts should be between 4000 and 5000 words in length and
typed doublespaced on one side of plain paper, with wide margins to allow
for editorial notes. The first page of the manuscript should only contain
the author's name and affiliation address, the article title, and an
abstract of about 100-150 words. Each page of the manuscript should be
consecutively numbered, including pages of references.  References should
be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical and chronological
order. Notes should be placed at the bottom of each page as footnotes and
numbered consecutively. Reviewing will be blind to the identities of the
authors, which requires that authors exercise some care not to identify
themselves in their papers.

3 hard copies of the manuscript should be sent to either=20

     Dr. Matthias Scheutz=20
     Institut fuer Wissenschaftstheorie=20
     Universitaet Wien=20
     Sensengasse 8/10=20
     A-1090 Wien=20
     AUSTRIA

or=20

     Dr. Matthias Scheutz=20
     Department of Computer Science and Engineering=20
     University of Notre Dame=20
     Notre Dame, IN 46556=20
     USA

For details see http://www.univie.ac.at/cognition/conf/ntcs99/
or contact Matthias Scheutz at matthias.scheutz at univie.ac.at












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