23-25 March 2009
Cambridge, U.K.
The Science and Philosophy of Unconventional Computing (SPUC09) http://web.mac.com/mhogarth/Site/SPUC_Conference.html Cambridge (UK), March 23-25, 2009 Call for papers We welcome submissions on topics normally classified under 'natural computing' or 'unconventional computing' or 'hypercomputing' including (but not restricted to) quantum computing, relativistic computing, biology-based computing, analogue computing, and also submissions on the philosophical implications of these new fields for topics including (but again not restricted to) philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, the Church-Turing thesis. Each presentation should last no more than 30 minutes; a further 10 minutes will be allowed for discussion. Those wishing to make a presentation should submit by email a 250-word abstract of their paper to Mark Hogarth; enquires to the same. The conference talks will be in the Bennett Room of Clare College, Cambridge. The out-of-town invited speakers will be accommodated in the College; the other delegates are welcome to stay there too. Registration fee (yet to be fixed) will be around 100. Student bursaries are available. Confirmed invited speakers Jeff Barrett (Irvine, USA) Philip Welch (Bristol, UK) Selmer Brinsjord (New York, USA) Tim Button (Harvard, USA) Cristian Calude (Auckland, NZ) Istvn Nmeti (Budapest, Hungary) Benjamin Wells (San Francisco, USA) Jos Flix Costa (Swansea, UK) Hajnal Andrka (Budapest, Hungary) Apostolos Syropoulos (Xanthi, Greece) Susan Stepney (York, UK) Bruce MacLennan (Tennessee, USA) Peter Kugel (Boston, USA) Mark Sprevak (Cambridge, UK) Selim Akl (Kingston, Canada) Tien Kieu (Melbourne, Australia) Organiser (also a speaker) Mark Hogarth (Cambridge, UK) Advisory panel (also speakers) Mike Stannett (Sheffield, UK) John Tucker (Swansea, UK) Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK) Sponsored by EPSRC through HyperNet (the Hypercomputation Research Network, EP/E064183/1)