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Mon, 2008-06-02 14:56 — ifsr

Call for lectures/papers“Berlin November” 2008

invitation for lectures / call for papers
“Berlin November” 2008

In 2008 once again, the German Society for Cybernetics will organize the traditional Berlin November.

Venue: Club house of Freie Universität Berlin
Date: November 21 and 22, 2008 (Friday and Saturday)
Topic / temporary working title: “1948-2008: cybernetics at the age of 60 – as young a research as ever?!”

In 1948, two pioneering works on cybernetics have been published: Norbert Wiener’s paper “Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” and “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” by Claude Elwood Shannon. Both papers had a huge effect during the following decades. But whereas cybernetics has already nearly disappeared from usage, Shannon’s work is further debated in connection with the discussion on knowledge and knowledge society.

This year’s “Berlin November” shall be dedicated to a survey and review 60 years after those two major publications came out. What does Cybernetics mean today? Where does Cybernetics as a science/research stand today? Which developments of Cybernetics are perceptible?

Schedule of the conference:
Planned for Friday: two presentations (including introductory speech), followed by the symposium “Ethics media” by the Society for Pedagogic and Information (GPI).
Highlight of the day (around 4p.m.) will be the ceremony for the awarding of the “Wiener-Schmidt” price 2008 done by GPI and GfK.

The Saturday will be dedicated entirely to Cybernetics. Planned are 8 presentations which should not deal with a review of what cybernetics wanted to do, but they should show which current disciplines are rooted in cybernetics.

All talks should not take more than 30 minutes so that a short discussion afterwards is possible.

First of all you should therefore name a topic and secondly, hand in a brief abstract (one page). We would like to address as many cybernetic disciplines as possible. A committee appointed by the GfK will eventually decide on the final list of referees.

Deadline for registration of presentations: June 14, 2008
Deadline for abstracts: July 12, 2008.

Looking forward to your registration and an exciting conference in Berlin.

Frank Dittmann Siegfried Piotrowski Rudolf Seising