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Feature in Information Today

The latest issue of Information Today features highlights of our Summit such as the unpacking of Shannon’s wrongly labeled “Information Theory” (Terrence W. Deacon, UC Berkeley, and Yixin Zhong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), new frontiers of the science of information (Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue

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Article in press by Søren Brier in “Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology”

“Finding an information concept suited for a universal theory of information” is the title of Brier’s most recent article in which he lays out his cybersemiotic approach in Elsevier’s Journal “Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology” (publication year 2015). Brier is

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Günther Witzany in Huffington Post: Modern Synthesis must be replaced

Susan Mazur, author of “The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza”, interviews Summit speaker Günther Witzany. Communication is key, says Witzany. Here.

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Zoe Lefkofridi at Greek Debt Talks – Is another Europe still possible?

Zoe Lefkofridi, Joint Jean Monnet – Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, invited speaker at our Summit on the economization of the political project of a European Union, was invited to “The Debate” on FRANCE24 TV station on 9 July

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Genetic music on youtube

Parts of our concert can be viewed and listened to at youtube. Use that link for the English version and that for the Russian one. That video contains miniatures and an etude of genetic musical tunings by Ivan Soshinsky. These

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All extended abstracts published online with DOI

Now we can announce that those abstracts that fulfilled the criteria for publication have been published. All of them have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Follow that link.

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Die Nachfahren der Maschinenstürmer

A radio feature. In: matrix – computer & neue Medien, oe1, ORF, Sunday, 21 June, 2015. Currently available at http://oe1.orf.at/programm/407404. (When expired, go to our site on Articles and reports.) With interviewees Christian Fuchs und Rafael Capurro, both part of the Summit.

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What underlies information?

New issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing published. Vol. 22, No.1, 2015 contains among others a discussion of Kun Wu’s philosophy of information co-authored by Liqian Zhou and Søren Brier and an article on machine knowing by Joseph Brenner –

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Send your presentation

If you attended the Summit and held a presentation, and if you do not only want your abstract being published but also your presentation, just send a mail to rordorf@mdpi.com, refer to your manuscript number “sciforum-00….” and attach a pdf of

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Next Summit Gothenburg 2017

The next Summit will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2 years from now. New ISIS President, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, will chair it. Click on the picture to see Gordana’s presentation of the next venue. See below the promotion video “This is Gothenburg”.

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