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

2011-12-14 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Thank you, Pedro! That's an excellent idea. It is a bit long document (~130 pages with the reference), but reading it should be easy for such a skilled auditorium as FIS. Moreover, many of the issues will sound familiar. With my best wishes for a wonderful Christmas time and a very happy and succ

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

2011-12-14 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks a lot, Plamen. That very document --the White Paper-- could be an excellent starting text for a next discussion session in the list, on biological information & computation, to be chaired by inbiosa parties. Does it look a good idea? best wishes ---Pedro Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov escribi

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

2011-12-12 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Thank you, Bruno, John, Walter, Pedro, Gordana & FIS, I could not agree more with the said above. My only addendum to John’s argument to think about computation as "only one mode of information i.e. information AS cognitive process” is that computation should not be limited only to cognitive proce

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

2011-12-12 Thread Igor Gurevich
2011/12/9 : > 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 globali

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

2011-12-12 Thread Karl Javorszky
Hi All, the talk here going about a possible curriculum, I have assembled one. This is of course only an outline but should give a realistic idea about the half-steps needed to grasp what we understand under "information". I'd look forward working on this project. Asking for your kind tolerance, I

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

2011-12-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi John, Hi Fis-people On 11 Dec 2011, at 13:49, john.holg...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Thanks Walter, A useful snapshot of PC (Philosophy of Computing). It reminds me that the origin of the word 'computing' is com-putare = to consider together, suppose together, imagine together. This is

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

2011-12-11 Thread john.holg...@ozemail.com.au
Thanks Walter, A useful snapshot of PC (Philosophy of Computing). It reminds me that the origin of the word 'computing'   is com-putare = to consider together, suppose together, imagine together. This is surely what Steve Jobs was all about. To reduce computation to algorithmic calculation or eve

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. Globalization

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

2011-12-08 Thread walter . riofrio
Dear all, It is possible find some useful ideas to build multi-inter-trans disciplinary approaches in last “closing statement” of Ubiquity Symposium: What is Computation? What Have We Said About Computation? [1] If you are interested in all papers of this ACM

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

2011-12-08 Thread John Collier
Good to see that fis perspectives are used in teaching. I use information ideas fundamentally in our second year Cognitive Science course, and also in some postgrad courses I teach. John At 03:03 PM 2011/12/07, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: Thanks a lot, Gordana. It is a very good idea. Unfortunately

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

2011-12-07 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
to:wolfgang.hofkirch...@tuwien.ac.at] Sent: den 7 december 2011 17:48 To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Cc: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education dear gordana, maybe the following is of interest to the topic. first, the description of the module i am responsible

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

2011-12-07 Thread Karl Javorszky
Dear FIS, Let me systematise the requirements and conditions raised so far and then discuss a proposal: Recapitulation: (maybe there will be a possibility to attach attachments to the postings. The following should be an attachment, where I recapitulate the points previous speakers have rais

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

2011-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Hofkirchner
dear gordana, maybe the following is of interest to the topic. first, the description of the module i am responsible of in the curriculum of master students of technical informatics and media informatics from this year on (see below). and second, a link to download a background information from

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

2011-12-07 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks a lot, Gordana. It is a very good idea. Unfortunately I could not participate in the opening of the session, well, at least I can say now that I had the experience of teaching for Engineering graduate students two neatly informational ("FIS") disciplines. One of them, _Bioinformation: i