Data Ecologies Workshop

Data Ecologies - from 12th to 14th May 2005: Program


Data Ecologies 05

Program:

The workshop will start with an informal get together on Thursday the 12th of May. The meeting itself will start on Friday the 13th at 9:30 am with a talk by Tom Toffoli. Talks throughout the day will finish with a dinner so as to carry on the conversations in a less formal atmosphere. The workshop will continue at 9:30 on Saturday morning for a full day of coffee breaks interrupted by talks and discussions. The final talk will be from Ed Fredkin, at the start of Saturday afternoon, and will be followed by a round table discussion in order to reiterate some points that have been raised in the various talks and work towards some more intense discussion.
A price-efficient lunch will be available onsite.

Final Program


Friday 13th May
9:30
Welcome and Opening
Tom Toffoli "Computation: the LEGO of Physics"
Karl Svozil "Aesthetics and Scarcity: A Physics Perspective"
12:30
Lunch break
14:45
Dan Miller "Implementing digital physics"
Hartwig Thim "Experimental evidence for a preferred frame of reference"
Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp "Crashing the computational universe"(Cancelled!)


Saturday 14th May
9:30
Juergen Schmidhuber "Optimal Prediction in Computable Universes"
Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic "metaphors for inspiration vs. metaphors for intepretation "
12:30
Lunch break
13:30
Edward Fredkin "Computing Architecture for Physics, Reflections on Digital Philosophy"
Round Table discussion - where to from here


For those who need some light entertainment after this, the annual LinzFest is happening.
For those who cannot make it, the "Space and Perception" meeting at RIXC will be interesting, and will deal with some of the same issues.