6th International Conference on the
History and Philosophy of Computing

27-29 Oct 2021 Zürich (Switzerland)

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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