Aug 03
The main part of the 2013 ASC conference was opened and participants welcomed on the morning of Tuesday 30-Jul-2013. Prof. Elias Siores, Provost on Campus of the University of Bolton opened the conference. Further welcome addresses were given by Paul Hollins, Director of Bolton university’s Institute for Educational Cybernetics, Dai Griffith, conference co-organiser and member …
Aug 01
http://www.fluidaudio.co.uk/2013/04/25/749/ For those of you who liked the performance you might enjoy this album that is soon coming out. The video I showed during my performance can be seen here: http://athanasius.trinity.duke.edu/projects/ems/ems.html Best Bill Seaman
Jul 29
Here is a picture of Bernard Scott delivering the tutorial titled “Cybernetics and Learning”; the first of the two advanced tutorials offered on Monday the 29th of July, besides a beginners’ tutorial.
Jul 28
2013 General Business Meeting was held in the Deane Board Room at Bolton University in the afternoon of Sunday 28-Jul-2013. During the meeting the President’s report was presented outlining the Society’s activities since last year’s report.
Jul 27
At least one more question relating to the ”nature of discussion” controversy… 1. What is the fear that sits behind the desire to coerce a particular form of discussion? 2. What is the desire that causes us to wield words like ”contract”? 3. Can a conference programme ever be considered as a ’contract’? How far …
Jul 26
Dear All, You will have seen the correspondence concerning the prominence of paper presentations in the conference. Since the announcement of the conference, both the web site and emails have given a consistent picture of the conference, which has three important characteristics. Firstly, this is a conversational conference intended to develop new questions through conversations …
Jul 26
With thanks to Tim Goddard of Bolton for this, but UK delegates might remember to popular TV childrens programme called ’Rainbow’. For US delegates, this was a gentle Sesame-Street style programme. For the actors who played ’Zippy’, ’George’, ’Bungle’, and Geoffrey, years of talking to 5-year olds took its toll: they let off steam by …
Jul 26
A couple of years back we had a conference on listening, which is a key factor in conversation. I got permission for us to use a summary of a wonderful book called ”The Lost Art of Listening” by Michael P Nichols. Here is a url, in case you would like to look at that digest: …
Jul 26
Hi everyone, looks like the conference has started! There are some questions the paper presentation issue raises for me which I’ll be thinking about next week: 1. Where is the distinction between ’chit-chat’ and ’academic discourse’ as conversation? 2. Where does theory sit in conversation? 3. What is the role of the academy in cybernetics? …
Jul 26
Dear Ranulph, The solution of having presentations in a row after dinner (19:30-23:30) seems terrible to me. I may be too tired to attend. Dear Dai and Mark: can you please intervene as local organizers? Perhaps, the presentations can be scheduled in parallel on Wednesday during daytime. Best, Loet PS. I am reconsidering my participation. …
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