Hello,
Note that Juergen Schmidhuber is talking at this event, it might be of interest to a few people on the list. There will be a stream, so you can watch it from a distance.
Best,
Tim
Announcement:: Data Ecologies 05
To whom it may concern,
could you please forward this announcement to students and faculty who may be interested in attending.
Thanks in advance,
Tim Boykett
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Data Ecologies 05
12 - 14 May 2005 in Linz, Austria
100 years after Einstein published five papers that rocked and then essentially overthrew the then-current physical understanding, the murmurs of discontent are arising. Theories extending, expanding, explaining or just plain overthrowing the tenets of the now-current model(s) are making the rounds.
Digital Physics, quantum foam, immersive "realistic" environments, pregeometry, process Physics, Pattern formation by self-referential algorithms, diagrams of data structures and their spontaneous self-manipulation, tessellation systems and their dynamics, self-perpetuating flaws and defects in processes... the list goes on.
We will discuss these themes and the curve that they generate.
Topics of interest include, but are in no way limited to the following:
- combinatorial invariants of knotted nets
- artists investigating the production and perception of space in modern media
- the determination of structure from noise as the basis of perception
- pregeometries in all flavours
- interactive explorations of the nature of space, time and spacetime
- the nature of a computational nature – what could the universal computer be doing?
- experiments to examine the computational nature of the universe
- experimental evidence of a preferred frame of ref erence
- possible algorithms for our universe
- can we harness the computations in which we are seemingly immersed to our practical use?
- in what respects is quantum computation different from classical computations, and why?
Program:
An informal meeting will take place on Thursday 12th May for those travelling to Linz. Please
contact us for location details.
The lecture program will start at 9:30 on Friday 13th May and will run until
Saturday afternoon with a panel discussion to close. This will take place
at the Time's Up space at Industriezeile 33b, 4020 Linz.
Main speakers are: - Ed Fredkin (digitalphilosophy.org) - Jürgen Schmidhuber (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Tom Toffoli (Boston University) - Maja Kuzmanovic (Foundation oAM, Brussels) - Nik Gaffney (Foundation oAM, Brussels) - Karl Svozil (Technical University of Vienna) - Dan B Miller (Carnegie-Mellon University)
While we plan for long discussions, we have some possibilities for a few extra speakers. Please contact the organisers on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fees
In order to keep the workshop open to noninstitutional researchers, we charge no fee for this workshop.
Please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to register.
Contact:
TIME'S UP Industriezeile 33b A-4020 Linz Austria
+43-732-787804(ph) +43-732-7878043(fx)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.timesup.org/laboratory/DataEcologies
This workshop is supported by the EU Culture 2000 Program, LinzKultur, KulturOberoesterreich, BKA.Kunst and the Linzer Hochschulfonds.
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