event: Thinking Through Computing

A hybrid event organized by Steve Russ, University of Warwick.

This event is a hybrid of a network, a workshop and a seminar. The event intends to promote collaboration between people (or research groups) who have already been thinking for some years about the nature of computing. The objective of the event is to work together on publications that will reflect awareness, and better understanding, of each others’ thinking

The digital humanities community will benefit from this event for the following reasons:

* Many of those who have been reflecting deeply on the nature of computing have done so in a way that seeks to broaden computing from its historical focus on algorithms (and what can be formalised), or on information processing (thus well-suited to science and business), towards attention to fundamental activities of sense-making, managing meaning, and modelling (thus better suited to arts and humanities). Such a movement is the focus of this event (rather than other ways of broadening computing in the directions of ‘natural’ computing, or quantum computing, for example);

* The organizer's contribution from Empirical Modelling (EM) has major points of contact with many other potential participants and having some track record of successful collaboration, or contribution, in the humanities (for example, with education, philosophy, music, history, social and cognitive aspects of psychology, and sessions or talks at recent ACCH/LLC conferences);

* The organizers will use materials from the talks we co-authored at the recent ACCH/LLC conferences in Vancouver and Paris for core content in the initial draft document representing the result of our collaboration.

More information: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act39.html