Re: [Fis] about fis discussions (2)

2007-06-15 Thread mjs
Dear Colleagues: I think Pedro's initiative to redirect the discussion is excellent. With time, I started to get impression that because Information Science is so young, our discussions started to remind a puppy which from time to time is noticing its tail and comes back to the eternal chase.

[Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread mjs
Dear Colleagues: There are some questions which periodically return to FIS discussions without conclusive answers. For instance: What is information? However, the lack of consensus regarding central concept is not an obstacle in the development of Information Science. There is no commonly

Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-08 Thread mjs
Dear all, I teach every year (this fall fourth time) a general education course Information Science for freshmen and sophomores which has as its main objective to present not an existing discipline, but a potential unified approach to study complex issues related to globalization.

Re: [Fis] FIS Season Greetings

2011-12-26 Thread mjs
Dear Pedro, Dear FIS Friends, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Marcin ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis

[Fis] Fw: [Fwd: SV: SV: The Travellers]

2014-10-31 Thread mjs@aiu
I am trying again to submit my message to the list. Marcin From: MARCIN Schroeder Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 12:22 AM To: Pedro C. Marijuan Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] [Fwd: SV: SV: The Travellers] Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues, I do not contribute much to FIS

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Information is a linguistic description of structures]--T...

2015-09-29 Thread mjs@aiu
Dear Howard: I am afraid one of your examples is not really accurate historically: "the most amazing metaphor of relationality available to us is not math, it's not mechanism, and it's not reduction to "elements," it's language. by using the metaphor of a form of language called "code,"