[alife] ACIB 2011: deadline extended to 30 June 2011

[C. Titus Brown]

ACIB 2011, the 1st Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics: aims to disturb the elephants in the room.

What elephants? The ones right in the middle: 
	if computers can emulate anything does that mean they are all that is necessary to create aware (living?) systems?
	is Turing-based computation/information processing all that there is?
	what's the difference between living and non-living systems? 
	what's (if anything!) is missing that would be needed to create aware systems

(These are the issues that the EU flagships ignore!)

The conference will take place at the University of Stirling, Scotland, 29-31 August 2011. The conference addresses alternatives to von Neumann/Turing approaches to biological information processing including distinguishing living/non-living entities. The meeting is part of the EU INBIOSA Support Action.

The meeting will have a diverse set of presentation types, including the usual talks, posters (with poster spotlights), and Pecha-Kucha (also known as Lightning) talks.

For fuller details, see the call for papers, at 

http://www.inbiosa.eu/en/Workshops-And-Conferences.html

Note that the deadline has been extended to 30 June 2011

--Leslie Smith

Professor Leslie S. Smith B.Sc. Ph.D. SMIEEE,
Head, Institute of Computing Science and Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling,
Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
l.s.smith at cs.stir.ac.uk  
Tel (44) 1786 467435 Fax (44) 1786 464551
www http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/







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