Re: [Fis] News from Moscow
Dear FIS colleagues, In response to Julio's comment, a couple of brief points. First, it was not exactly a private party, as in the past conference in Beijing it was officially approved the realization of FIS 2012 (or 21013) in Moscow; actually three organizers of past fis events were in the Moscow conference, as well as a considerable number of Chinese and Russian members of the list (some of them quite new; that most of these parties do not post is another matter; we are more than 300 in the list, and very few are active posters!). Second, the resolutions approved were basically about ISIS matters. There will be ample information about that in coming weeks. FIS itself represents a movement (indeed a community as Julio rightly says) but we badly need the support of an organization and so the binomial arrangement ISIS-FIS (FIS-ISIS) we are following. The conference was not really a closed event, all members of ISIS board (15) were aware about the Moscow event but most of them failed to attend for either financing or visa problems. Personally I failed to send early info about the conference (my own management duties' chaos). I lost almost one month to announce it... sorry about that. Well, this was the background of the party. It could have been improved by all sides, of course, but after watching in situ the complex conditions to hold the conference (awful times everywhere!), I really appreciate the great work done by the main organizer Konstantin Kolin and his colleagues, and the support of the Humanitarian University of Moscow---thanks to all of them!! More practical now: about FIS futures. Perspectives are better, as two countries, Russia and China, are going to provide relevant institutional support for both ISIS-FIS. The Milton Keynes conference at the UK, and the great team there, means a new reinforcement in the common project of info science too. They also manage a prestigious journal Kybernetes where we can send our info sceince contributions... For FIS futures, maintenance of our discussion list is quite important, autonomously, and open to introduce any new idea or cooperation. In order to be able to resume the chaired sessions, that I am now so unable to organize, let me announce the incorporation of my collaborator Raquel del Moral to the FIS Secretariat. She is at: rdelmoral.i...@aragon.es Anyone interested in organizing future discussion sessions or willing to make off-list suggestions may write to any of us. Finally, our Chinese colleague Wu-Kun of the Xi'an Jiaotong University is planning an international conference there on the philosophy of information for next October. I think that FISer Joseph Brenner is also involved in the event ---hopefully this time info will flow us on time! Best wishes to all, ---Pedro PS. Maintaining the list discipline of two messages per week is not trivial. Authors of the recent compulsive postings, which persisted even after the red flag was shown, will be punished with two weeks of rest in the fis e-jail. ;-) Julio Stern wrote: As I questioned before, I see no problem in organizing a private party at Moscow. However, I see a big problem in taking this party as the forum in charge of deliberating and able to take important decisions in name of the FIS community. ---Julio Stern -- - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
[Fis] News from Moscow
Dear FISers, During the past days, 21 -24 May, the 5th FIS 1st ISIS conference has taken place in Moscow. As expected, very few people from Western countries could attend (just 4), but an important Chinese delegation (9) and a remarkable presence of the Russian Academy of sciences, research and learning institutions, professional colleges, library science, etc., made for a very relevant conference. We had intriguing presentations in biomolecular matters, biological systems organization, neuroscience, consciousness, socially oriented discussions, educational matters, etc. as well as criticisms on the current techno-utopian orientations of IT. The debates on what are the most important directions for info science development were complemented by the discussion of the institutional aspects we have to cover, particularly concerning the ISIS organization. Thanks to Konstantin Colin (past ISIS President) for the excellent organization work done, with the technical help of a number of parties, among them Nick, Victoria, Boris, etc. A number of scholars and researchers of the Organizing Committee and the Program Committee did also contribute... The challenge now is for Wolfgang Hofkirchner, elected ISIS President and organizer of 2nd ISIS 6th FIS in Vienna 2015 --good luck Wolfgang!! At FIS we should continue with our regular discussion sessions, better organized... there will be news about that soon. Also we will receive news from ISIS preparations, particularly concerning the organization of info science research. Robert Jahn, current secretary, is working in these matters. It was a great time in Moscow--best wishes to all ---Pedro PS. By the way, during these days I had no mail access and could not see until now (amidst the cloud of several hundred messages) that some FIS parties have ostensibly ignored the rule of two messages per week, and indulged in say personal styles of discussion. Please, stop that. -- - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
Re: [Fis] News from Moscow
Pedro writes: very few people from Western countries could attend (just 4)... ... the discussion of the institutional aspects we have to cover, particularly concerning the ISIS organization. As I questioned before, I see no problem in organizing a private party at Moscow. However, I see a big problem in taking this party as the forum in charge of deliberating and able to take important decisions in name of the FIS community. ---Julio Stern Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:07:08 +0200 From: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es To: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: [Fis] News from Moscow Dear FISers, During the past days, 21 -24 May, the 5th FIS 1st ISIS conference has taken place in Moscow. As expected, very few people from Western countries could attend (just 4), but an important Chinese delegation (9) and a remarkable presence of the Russian Academy of sciences, research and learning institutions, professional colleges, library science, etc., made for a very relevant conference. We had intriguing presentations in biomolecular matters, biological systems organization, neuroscience, consciousness, socially oriented discussions, educational matters, etc. as well as criticisms on the current techno-utopian orientations of IT. The debates on what are the most important directions for info science development were complemented by the discussion of the institutional aspects we have to cover, particularly concerning the ISIS organization. Thanks to Konstantin Colin (past ISIS President) for the excellent organization work done, with the technical help of a number of parties, among them Nick, Victoria, Boris, etc. A number of scholars and researchers of the Organizing Committee and the Program Committee did also contribute... The challenge now is for Wolfgang Hofkirchner, elected ISIS President and organizer of 2nd ISIS 6th FIS in Vienna 2015 --good luck Wolfgang!! At FIS we should continue with our regular discussion sessions, better organized... there will be news about that soon. Also we will receive news from ISIS preparations, particularly concerning the organization of info science research. Robert Jahn, current secretary, is working in these matters. It was a great time in Moscow--best wishes to all ---Pedro PS. By the way, during these days I had no mail access and could not see until now (amidst the cloud of several hundred messages) that some FIS parties have ostensibly ignored the rule of two messages per week, and indulged in say personal styles of discussion. Please, stop that. -- - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
