3rd International CONFERENCE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of COMPUTING

Registration

Walter Shewhart and the Philosophical Foundations of Software Engineering

David Alan Grier, IEEE & George Washington University, USA

Interdisciplinary Highlights

Fabio Gadducci

› Hungary's Early Years in the Ryad - Mate Szabo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Interdisciplinary Highlights

Fabio Gadducci

› Computers and Programmed Arts in the Sixties in Italy - Elisabetta Mori, Fondazione Galileo Galilei - Pisa, Italy 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Several types of types in programming languages - Simone Martini, University of Bologna, Italy & INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Epistemic Opacity, Confirmation Holism and Technical Debt: Computer Simulation in the light of Empirical Software Engineering - Julian Newman, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Lunch

The Turn of Object-Oriented Programming in Computerized Models and Simulations

Franck Varenne, University of Rouen, France

Computing and the modeling of reality

Teresa Numerico

› The contribution of Carl Adam Petri to our understanding of ‘computing' - Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Functional or appealing? Traces of a long struggle - Giovanni Cignoni, Fondazione Galileo Galilei 15:30-16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Computing and the modeling of reality

Teresa Numerico

› Emerging computer technologies: from information to perception - Nicola Liberati, Chukyo University - Nagoya, Japan - Shoji Nagataki, Chukyo University - Nagoya, Japan 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› The brain in silicon: history, and skepticism - Alessio Plebe, University of Messina, Italy - Giorgio Grasso, University of Messina, Italy 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Mechanism, Computational Structure and Representation in Cognitive Science - Dimitri Coelho Mollo, King's College, University of London, UK & Humboldt University, Germany 17:30-18:00 (30min)

Sonic Space #05 - An Interactive, Spatial Audio Installation with Found Objects/Materials

Elisabetta Senesi