Info-Metrics Institute 2015 Spring Workshop on
Philosophy of Information and Information Processing
27 March 2015, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/workshop/workshop-2015-spring.cfm
Pre-workshop Reception
Place: Forte Room, Pembroke College (Mark 24 on the map)
Time: 19:00-21:00 on 26 March 2015 (buffet dinner served between 19:30-20:30)
Workshop Program
Place: The Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College (Mark 31 on the map)
08:30 - 08:45 Opening and Welcome
Session 1: Where we are?
Chair: Min Chen, University of Oxford, UK
08:45 - 09:15 Info-metrics: Past and Present
Amos Golan, American University, USA
09:15 - 10:15 Round Table: The Scope of PIIP
Alastair Hall (Chair), University of Manchester, UK
Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, UK
Ramo Gencay, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
10:15 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee
Session 2: What is new?
Chair: Janet Smart, University of Oxford, UK
10:45 - 11:10 The Epistemology of Data-intensive Science,
Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter, UK
11:10 - 11:35 Negating Trust: Intentionality and Enemy Mine
Giuseppe Primiero Middlesex University, UK
11:35 - 12:00 Information Theory and Aesthetics
Mateu Sbert, University of Girona, Spain
12:00 - 12:25 Structural and Quantitative Characteristics of Information from the Point of
View of Invariance
Marcin J. Schroeder, Akita International University, Japan
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 3: What may be coming?
Chair: David Duce, Oxford Brookes University, UK
14:00 - 14:25 Non-digital Computing and its Data
John V Tucker, Swansea University, UK
14:25 - 14:50 What Information to Measure – How to Measure?
Paolo Rocchi, IBM and Luiss University, Italy
14:50 - 15:15 Relevance Logic as an Information-Based Logic
J. Michael Dunn, Indiana University, USA
15:15 - 15:40 Quantum Information Theory
Bob Coecke, Oxford University, UK
15:40 - 16:10 Tea/Coffee
Session 4: How to move forward?
Chair: Robin Lumsdaine, American University, USA
16:10 - 17:10 Round Table: Top Five Challenges in PIIP
Robin Lumsdaine (Chair), American University, USA
David Clark, University College London, UK
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University, USA
Jeffrey Racine, McMaster University, Canada
Ximing Wu, Texas A&M University, USA
17:10 - 17:40 Info-metrics: Next and Future (and Closing)
Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, UK
18:00 - 19:00 Drink Reception
Place: Hall Gallery (Mark 24 on the map)
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner
Place: The Hall (Mark 24 on the map)
Vote of Thanks by Professor Anne R. Trefethen
Chief Information Officer and Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford
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