Program [W/ SLIDES]

All times are CET (Central European Time = Zurich time)

Wednesday, October 27 2021
08:00 – 08:50 Registration
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Mireille Hildebrandt
Written and coded ‘speech acts’. Never the twain shall meet?
Chair: Juan Luis Gastaldi
10:00 – 11:00 Session 1 – Conceptual Perspectives – Chair: Viola Schiaffonati
Javier Toscano
Intentionalities of Code: Historical Practices and Devices. A Philosophical Account
Edith Schmid
Computing Systems as Social Institutions
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:50 Session 2 – Physical Aspects of Computing – Chair: Luc Pellissier
Edgar Daylight
Church‘s Reception of Turing‘s 1936 Paper: A Philosophical Angle
Philipp Macele
There is no Hardware – Lynn Conway and the Mead-Conway-Revolution
Michael Jackson
Cyber-Physical Programming
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30

Session 3 – Computing and the State – Chair: Liesbeth De Mol
Moritz Feichtinger
Databasing Djungle-War: The US-Army‘s data-processing systems during the Vietnam War, 1966-1975
Moritz Mähr
The Public, the Private, and the Domestication of the Information System. How Data Protection Governed the Swiss Administration in the 1970s
Marcelo Vianna
“Processing the Development”: Technical Groups, Profiles and Decisions on Computer Technologies in Brazil in the Late 1950s (CANCELLED)
David Waszek
Informational Equivalence but Computational Differences? Herbert Simon on Representations in Scientific Practice(CHANGE OF TIME)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30
16:00 – 17:00

Session 4 – Conceptual Perspectives – Chair: Giuseppe Primiero
Nick Wiggershaus
An Agential Theory of Implementation for Computer Science
David Waszek
Informational Equivalence but Computational Differences? Herbert Simon on Representations in Scientific Practice(MOVED TO 15:00)
Philippos Papayannopoulos, Nir Fresco and Oron Shagrir
On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy

17:30 – 18:30
17:00 – 18:30

General Assembly – Chair: Giuseppe Primiero
All participants are kindly invited to attend
Venue change: Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich
19:30 – 21:30 Screening of an excerpt of Knit's Island, work in progress video game documentary,
by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h (Les Films Invisibles), followed by
a round table and discussion with the directors

Moderator: Juan Luis Gastaldi

 

Thursday, October 28 2021
08:30 – 09:00 Check-In
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5 – History and Philosophy – Chair: Simone Martini
Michael Friedman
Leibniz on Stocking Frame, Computing and Weaving
Aggelos Biboudis, Jeremy Gibbons and Oleg Kiselyov
All Things Flow: Unfolding the History of Streams
Tomas Petricek and Joel Jakubovic
Complementary Science of Interactive Programming Systems
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50 Session 6 – Social History – Chair: Roy Wagner
Mate Szabo
The Early Days of the Hungarian Software Industry
Jelena Stanulovic
Influence of the Self-Management in the Development of Personal Computers in Socialist Yugoslavia During the '80s
Carmen Flury and Rosalìa Guerrero
A National School Computer for the Emerging Digital Society: East German and Swedish Efforts to Develop a State-Mandated Educational Computer in the 1980s-1990s
Mirjam Mayer and Ricky Wichum
Public Data and Personal Computers. The Emergence of a Personal Computing Culture in the Swiss Federal Administration, ca. 1980
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote: Thomas Haigh
Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing
Chair: Liesbeth De Mol
15:00 – 16:00 Session 7 – Artificial Intelligence – Chair: Viola Schiaffonati
Camilla Quaresmini and Giuseppe Primiero
Data Quality Dimensions for Fair AI
Robin Zebrowski, John Sullins, Eric Dietrich, Bram Van Heuveln and Chris Fields
The History and Legacy of the AI Wars
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Session 8 – Socioeconomic Perspectives – Chair: Juan Luis Gastaldi
Veronica Dahl
Doughnut Computing: Aiming at Human and Ecological Well-Being
Chris Holland
Slipping Through Our Fingers Even As We Tighten Our Grip on the Controller: Rentism and the Consequences for Video Games
17:30 – 18:30 Keynotes: Barbara Liskov
Reflections on Programming Methodology
Chair: Simone Martini
19:30 Conference Dinner
Venue: Haus zum Rüden, Limmatquai 42, 8001 Zürich

 

Friday, October 29 2021
08:00 – 08:30 Check-In
08:30 – 10:00 Session 9 – Machine Learning – Chair: Viola Schiaffonati
Jens Ulrik Hansen and Paula Quinon
The Role of Expert Knowledge in Big Data and Machine Learning
Maximilian Noichl
The Epistemic Vices and Virtues of Dimensionality Reduction
Stefan Trausan-Matu
A Poststructuralist Perspective on Computer-Generated Literature
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:50 Session 10 – History and Philosophy – Chair: Luc Pellissier
Troy Astarte
From Monitors to Monitors: an Early History of Concurrency Primitives
Cliff Jones
One Concurrent Program: Three Attempts at Its Formal Verification
Laura Fontanella
The Evolution of the Concept of Proof Through Realizability
11:50 – 12:50 Keynote: Juliette Kennedy
Semantic content, the Incompleteness Theorems, and Gödel’s reception of Turing’s model of computability
Chair: Giuseppe Primiero
12:50 – 14:00 Concluding remarks and farewell by Juan Luis Gastaldi and Luc Pellissier
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