[Fis] Report on Berkeley/vacation times

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FISers,

Just to provide some interesting contents for these vacation weeks, I 
include herein fragments of a very useful compendium that Annette 
Grathoff (at the IS4SI Secretariat) made on the presentations of the 
Berkeley Conference.

/Here is a portfolio of links to pictures of some of the Keynote 
speakers together with the topics of their presentations so that you can 
find them using the link below to a collection of youtube videos with 
all keynote presentations:/

* Deacon.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1fqYF7Pz492f7-62fnEAuzLhKPohBKPkx/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*“Perfecting Behaviorism: Neural Nets as Subjects and Trainers”
** Duguid.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/14zpZJinTzq1cZ-9arREVf6SMU7vZuhN3/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„Connecting the Dots? ´Information´ in Historical Perspective“
** Harris.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1GtAe6xHxcfUFb-BQznLjON9YasREHfrE/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„Humane: A New Direction for Tech“
** Heylighen.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1mguMJ6Leit_Kb6c_vu9hyj9qCCXHOQfk/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„* *Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global 
Superintelligence”
** Hylton.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1mz4VShpuhn4R4K3llPlW-UHjg9W1kfpA/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„Thermodynamic Computing“
** Lanier.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1P8M8o8cLeQuIQQaUo2QywGPm9rA8yEBD/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„In Defense of Dualism“
** Leijnen.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1AD0N_QwHYaBwWR_f7YvccVkDb1ybFYdY/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„A Taxonomy of the Neural Network Zoo“
** Mitchell.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1Kdikb8LwofSv2foT5K6y3Icov-4fxdGx/view?usp=drive_web>**. 
“The Barrier of Meaning”
** Olshausen.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1uuiJIcoNOZkSx5biy81ERcbHaB_CYQdx/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„Getting the ´I´ into AI Some Clues from Biology and Mathematics“
** Saffo.png 
<https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1hihcAhA6pqOd34UDcmdv1v2EINRbW5Ur/view?usp=drive_web>* 
*„Lost in a Forest of Exponentials“*

/You can find a Youtube playlist of videos of keynote speeches and a 
panel discussion (between Heylighen, Leijnen, Olshausen, Mitchell and 
Verschure) here:/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeYtrzrsXQ2D9Iko7VSIJ5eDq1Q3K_PmP

Needless to say that outdoors of the conference there were very exciting 
exchanges. For instance, the idea of a possible "manifesto" on the 
crossroads that AI and IT have reached. The rarefied social polarization 
within many societies, the accumulation of economic & communication 
power in the hands of a few parties--almost adolescents!-- and the 
strange contest for world hegemony between countries and their flagship 
companies do constitute a new, strange panorama. "The Information New 
Order". Indeed, more advanced information core ideas are needed to get 
ahead our with collective views, and even to orientate oneself...
Anyhow, have a good time, or enter your discussion themes or personal 
presentations into the list if you wish, and let us prepare for the New 
Course.

Best wishes to all
--Pedro

PS. Remember that the archives of fis list may be found at the Unizar 
register: http://listas.unizar.es/pipermail/fis/
And also more systematically ordered by discussion sessions 
at:https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/




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