Posts from — March 2003

Tools for Electronic Democracy. One of the promising conversational threads at the Emergent Democracy Happening was the discussion of tools. There are various types… [BookBlog]

participation not presence is central to democracy.

Culture Jamming. We saw a lot of interesting talks at the 030303>Collective Play conference yesterday, but I wanted to quickly mention one… [game girl advance]

this looks interesting and fun, i could see people who are frustrated with things on tv create change through this. I'm conceptualizing right now a mutable tv system based on a wide variety of technical systems that could merge together in the next 20 years.

Transdisciplinarity in KM.

Recent comments to ?Emergent KM Research? ? proposal from Quaerere to KAngels continue the discussion about multi-/trans-/inter-disciplinary approaches to KM. At this stage reading the discussion can make you totally confusing, so to pieces:

Definition of transdisciplinarity (cited by Peter Troxler from Transdisciplinarity – New Structures in Science)

a scientific (…) principle that is active wherever a definition of problems and their solutions is not possible within a given field or discipline.

Boris Wyssusek

I also want to reiterate my question: is there anyone seriously interested in methodological issues of KM? Please let me know.

[Mathemagenic]

I generally define a trandiscipline along the lines that Guattari and Vilar define it, as an arena of study that is defined by the globality of its object and humbled by the innumerable methods for coming to know about that object.

Blech. You know, I thought I'd gotten the Naked Juice Protein Zone before, but obviously I hadn't. And I've obviously forgotten… [Inside Gretchen's Head]

I like green machine too. I tried the carrot one the other day, blech, tasted like watered down carrots and nearly gagged me.

Origins of science. Timeline of early science. A good read, albeit it ignores Atlantis, and it's source of unlimited power. [via Robot Wisdom] [MetaFilter]

interesting enough, it has a pretty good general account of early science.

Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Slim Gaillard was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote great songs, was a jive pioneer and even appeared in Charlie's Angels. [MetaFilter]

time comes and goes along these lines far too frequently….

to reflect so poorly. Plagiarism is an ugly word. Ung Lee, a Princeton Graduate, has one numerous awards for his writing, under the tutelage of Joyce Carl Oates. It's just that so many of those words were not his own. [MetaFilter]

i wonder did they take the awards away?

Dear colleague,
this is the Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE* Conference on
Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology
(SIIT2003)to be held October 22-24, 2003 at the Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands. (Please check www.SIIT2003.org for a
PDF or HTML version of this CfP.)

CONFERENCE THEME
Information Technology (IT) plays a pervasive role in our daily
lives. Would it have been as influential without standards? Hardly.
Nowadays, most IT-practitioners, researchers and policy makers
believe that standards matter a lot. Indeed, interest in IT-
standardization is rapidly growing. However, postulating the
importance of standards is one thing. Specifying and quantifying it
is another. It turns out to be very difficult, for example, to
specify the impact of standards on technology development, business
profits, infrastructure policy, etc.. Despite an increasing number
of studies, there are still few definite answers regarding the
dynamics of standardization.

October 22-24, 2003, the 3rd IEEE* Conference on “Standardization
and Innovation in Information Technology” (SIIT) will take place in
the old city of Delft, the Netherlands. The aim this conference is
to join forces and exchange insights. To progress, we need to
combine the expertise of practitioners and academics across a wide
range of businesses and disciplines – from engineering and economics
to policy management, sociology and law.

The Advisory Board, the Local and International Organizing
Committee, and the Program Committee listed below therefore warmly
invite you to submit a paper – or, for those who would like to try
their hand at something completely different, a standards tale
(www.standard-tales.tbm.tudelft.nl).

Theoretical and empirical papers are welcome that shed light on
aspects, issues, and dynamics of standards and standardization.
Possible topics may include

- impact of standards
- problems of implementation and diffusion
- conformity assessment, testing and certification
- compatibility & open source developments
- flexibility
- innovation
- intellectual property rights
- contemporary and historical cases of formal and consortium
Ê standardization
- public-private sphere issues
- competing compatibility strategies
- standards use in a regulatory setting
- corporate standards strategies
- network externalities
- standards cultures
- policy context of standardization
- competing regional and international regimes
- analyses of standards research and education activities

Suggestions for additional topics are most welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES
15 May 2003-Deadline for paper submissions
15 July 2003-Notification of authors
1 September 2003-Deadline for final (camera-ready) papers

PAPER REVIEW AND ACCEPTANCE
Significant and original (unpublished) submissions are solicited and
will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Full papers should
not exceed 6,000 words and include an abstract of 100 -150 words.
For paper submission guidelines, please see the conference website.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the 'Int.
Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research' (JITSR).

CONFERENCE CHAIR: Tineke Egyedi

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jan-Pascal van Best
Marnix Kaart (webmaster)
Marian van der Poel-Lutz (local SIIT secretariat)
Wim Vree

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Kai Jakobs, Aachen University
Ken Krechmer, ICSR (chair progr.committee)
Timothy Schoechle, ICSR
Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T

ADVISORY BOARD
Koichi Asatani, Professor of Electr. & Comm. Eng., Kogakuin Univ.,
ÊÊ Japan
Jan van den Beld, Secretary General of ECMA
Scott Bradner, IETF, Internet Society's Vice President for Standards
Carl Cargill, Director of Standards, Sun Microsystems
Paul David, Professor of Economics, Stanford Univ., USA
Veit Ghiladi, Director of Standards , DaimlerChrysler
John Ketchell, Director CEN/ISSS
Hans van Luijk, President Executive Board of Delft Univ. of
ÊÊ Technology
Oliver Smoot, President ISO*
Evangelos Vardakas, Director of Single Market, Enterprise DG, Eur.
ÊÊ Commission
Margot Weijnen, Professor of Process & Energy Systems Engin, Delft
Univ. of Techn., Neth.
Jan Wesseldijk, Director of the Dutch Standards Body (NEN)
Houlin Zhao, Director Telecomm. Stand. Bureau of the ITU

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Ken Krechmer, ICSR, USA
Marc Berg, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, Neth.
Knut Blind, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Randy Bloomfield, Consultant, USA
Rainer Brockschmidt, Consultant, Germany
Theun Bruins, Univ. of Amsterdam, Neth.
Nils Brunsson, Stockh. School of Econ.,Sweden
Jim Carlo, IEEE*Yves Chauvel, ETSI
Heide Coenen, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Axel Czaya, Un. Fed. Arm Forces Ham., Ger.
Ajantha Dahanajake, Univ. of Delft, Neth.
Jelte Dijkstra, NEN, Neth.
Koen Dittrich, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, Neth.
Patrick Duffy, Totus, Ireland
Simao Ferraz de Campos Neto, ITU
Vlad Fomin, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Mark Gaynor, Harvard, USA
Ricardo Goncalves, UNINOVA, Portugal
Peter Grindley, LECG, UK
Ole Hanseth, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Richard Hawkins, TNO, Neth.
Wilfried Hesser, Un. Fed. Arm Forces Ham., Ger.
John Hudson, Univ. of Bath, UK
Eric Iversen, STEP, Norway
Henk Koppelaar, Univ. of Delft, Neth.
Gary Lea, Queen Mary Int. Prop. Res. Inst., UK
Arjan Loeffen, Salience BV, Neth.
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA
Kees van der Meer, Univ. of Delft, Neth.
Eddie Michiels, Univ. Twente, Neth.
Eric Monteiro, Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Techn.
Rob Proctor, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland
Roy Rada, Univ. of Maryland,, USA
Harald Schumny, Comp. Standards & Interfaces
Ardy Siegert, Ministry of V&W, Neth.
Anke Sijtsema, Ministry of V&W, Neth.
Michael Spring, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Kees Stuurman, Univ. Tilburg, Neth.
Peter Swann, Manchester Business School, UK
Chris Vissers, Telematics Institute, Neth.
Taavi Vladlo, Estonian Informatics Centre, Estonia
Alexander Voss, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jos Vrancken, Univ. of Delft, Neth.
Henk de Vries, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, Neth.
Willem Wakker, ACE, Neth.
Marc van Wegberg, Univ. of Maastricht, Neth.
Joel West, San JosŽ State Univ., USA
Robin Williams, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland
Paul Wouters, Royal Neth. Acad. of Arts & Scienc.
Ragna Zeiss, University of York, UK

* pending approval, IEEE=Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers.

For conference news see www.SIIT2003.org. For other questions please
contact the local SIIT secretariat
(M.A.G.vanderPoel-Lutz@tbm.tudelft.nl)
or the conference chair (T.M.Egyedi@tbm.tudelft.nl)

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2003/cw2003.htm

2003 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS
3-5 December 2003, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore
organized by:
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
in cooperation with:
IEEE Computer Society
SIGGRAPH

Call for Submissions

Cyberworlds are information worlds being formed on the web either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. As information worlds, they are either virtual or real, and can be both. In terms of information modelling, the theoretical ground for the cyberworlds is far above the level of integrating spatial database models and temporal database models. This conference will deal with large distributed information worlds in the web as well as methods and tools used for creating such worlds. The conference topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

Group A: Cyber Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms

Philosophy and disciplines
Methodologies of cybergenesis
Cyberworlds and their impact on the real world
Cyberethics and cyberlaws
Cybersecurity
Datamining and warehousing in cyberworlds
Distributed simulation
Distributed virtual environments
Shared and virtual worlds
Simulation and visualisation for cyberpresentations
Computer vision and augmented reality for cyberworlds
Intelligent agents and robotics

Group B: Applications, Case Studies, and Industrial Practices

Bioinformatics for cyberlife and medicine
Healthcare in cyberworlds
Cyberworlds for bioengineering
Cyberinformation systems
E-business in cyberworlds
Cyberworlds for education
Cyberworlds for manufacturing
Cyber fairs
Cyber museums
Cyber parenting
Multi-user web games

CW2003 will provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers, and researchers from around the world to share the latest research, ideas, and developments in these fields. The conference will consist of formal paper sessions, tutorials, industrial seminars and hands-on demonstrations where research groups and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in the field. Paper submission is to be done electronically through the Submission page.

Keynote talks:

* Tosiyasu L. Kunii (Hosei University, Japan)
“Cyberworlds as the Leading Power of World Evolution”
* Daniel Thalmann (Virtual Reality Lab, EPFL, Switzerland)
“Believable Cyberpeople: A True Challenge for the Decade”
* Anatoly T. Fomenko (Moscow State University, Russia),
“Computer geometry for singularities in dynamical systems with symmetries”

Industrial seminars and exhibitions:

* Silicon Graphics Inc.
* Hewlett-Packard Company
* Christie Digital Systems, USA Inc.
* NTUC Income

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of select papers will be also printed in special issues of Computers & Graphics (28:4, 2004),
The Journal of Visualization & Computer Animation, and
The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

If you want to receive the original poster and the conference flyers, email your request to cw2003@ntu.edu.sg

Important Dates
Seminar/exhibition proposals: Potential sponsors are welcome
Abstract: 5 May 2003
Paper/tutorial submission: 12 May 2003
Notice of Acceptance: 4 Aug 2003
Camera-ready paper: 1 Sep 2003
Contact Information

CW 2003 Secretariat:
Ms Merlin Toh
Conference Management Centre/CCE
Nanyang Technological University
Administration Annex Building #04-06
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815

Phone: +65-6790-4723
Fax: +65-6793-0997
Email: cw2003@ntu.edu.sg

Program Chair:
Alexei Sourin, assourin@ntu.edu.sg
phone: +65 6790 4292, fax: +65 6792 6559
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Blk N4, #2a-32, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

General Conference Co-Chairs:
Tosiyasu Laurence Kunii, tosi@kunii.com
Seah Hock Soon, ashsseah@ntu.edu.sg

Conference web-site:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2003

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