[Fis] Tuesday, December 9th : The Last of the Akkadians

[Pedro C. Marijuán]

Dear FISers,

This Tuesday we will have a Dialogue at the International Academy of 
Information Studies honoring Karl.
I have also penned a brief obituary (below) written for Philosophies, 
Journal in which he was a member of the Editorial Board.
Karl's last article was published in the International Journal of 
Information Theories and Applications, Volume 32, No. 4, 2025:
DOI: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.54521/ijita32-04-p07__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72lGuM_6W$ 


    *The last of the Akkadians: Celebrating the legacy of Karl Javorszky*


      *Speakers:*

*Louis H. Kauffman*,
/Emeritus Professor Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer 
Science/
/University of Illinois at Chicago. 
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/*Katherine Peil Kauffman*/
/EFS International and Institute for Systems Biology/
/Affiliated of Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity School. 
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The session will take place on */Tuesday, December 9th/**,* *at**:* 
*17:30 (CET) | 11:30 AM (EST) | 00:30 AM (Thurs.Beijing)***
In the *MEET link: **https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72ri1sh-6$ 
*
The Dialogue format: each of the speakers will have 20 min. 
presentation, followed by 15 min. mutual debate, and 30 min. Q&A from 
the audience.
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member *Plamen Simeonov.
*
*The session will be recorded *and posted on the YouTube channel of the 
IAIS Dialogues: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72izbO2_t$ 

/© International Academy of Information Studies: 
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Last 24 October Karl Javorszky passed away. He was a member of the 
Editorial Board of this journal, Philosophies, since its beginning. He 
was well known for his original contributions on a new number theory and 
the way living beings "account" their functioning --he was also a very 
dear acquaintance of mine. His academic credential was Doctor of 
Philosophy (Psychology) by Wien University and during many years he 
worked as consulting psychologist, diagnostician (contracted with 
Austrian Social Security) and statistician. Other professional 
activities of him were also related to statistics (Social Marketing, 
Data modeling, Data processing design and development, Information 
security) in several Austrian companies & institutions. In other words, 
he developed an intense work experience outside Academia focused on 
statistics and the different measurements of the qualitative.
He came to visit me in Zaragoza as early as in 1994. He had sent me a 
long letter with an interesting manuscript, basically dealing with 
"multidimensional partitions" as a potential tool for the study of 
information transmission in living cells and mammalian brains. In that 
time the topic was quite hot in my own research, and I could invite him 
to deliver a Seminar at the University of Zaragoza about his new 
approach to biology via his original number theory. He soon produced a 
dense manuscript on the topics of his visit ("Zaragoza Lectures"). 
Afterwards we cooperated a couple of years within a small group (with 
computer scientist Jose Pastor & biologist Morris Villarroel) in the 
development of his multidimensional partitions stuff--a fascinating 
topic which unfortunately we could not continue as a group and has 
mostly remained out from my own focus.
The idea that "distinctions" in a set of N elements are limited, either 
regarding one single property or a plurality of them, and that they can 
be rigorously expressed via either unidimensional partitions or 
multidimensional partitions, is a mind boggling issue full of formal 
consequences and potential applications. We worked out a few of them 
--Morris and José did a terrific work, partially published. Karl went on 
to develop the contrast between the accounting based on the sequential 
versus the simultaneous, the melody versus the accord --which he 
referred to as the Sumerian versus the Akkadian ways of counting, N! 
versus N?. This can be found in quite a few of the messages he posted in 
the FIS discussion list (Foundations of Information Science, at 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72vqfmuZf$  ) where he 
preferentially presented his further elaborations on the relationship 
between the accounting systems N! and N? as a genuine foundation of 
Nature accounting processes. During almost 30 years veteran FISers 
enjoyed his curious writing style, with plenty of metaphors and colorful 
references, always eloquently presented in a friendly and perhaps rather 
insisting way. But Karl was always a charming man, discrete, polite and 
somehow elusive and shy --except concerning his loved Sumerian / 
Akkadian counting systems and the way Nature computes her cyclicity. He 
will forgive me that from time to time I ventured to discuss him that 
enigmatic N?

Apart of the many messages published in FIS list archives, there is a 
collection of Karl's more formal papers at 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72s22LHVg$  
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!UbKGD8XEyM9zI8aWu3wSh_euFlQRmfb2yHeSiaIUtFKBYQo6kZa3EhSb2F9c8IfNmA0B_VZEP9vIaT0zIQU-7ZE$>
And also at Google Scholar, 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=es&as_sdt=0*2C5&q=karl*javorszky&btnG=__;JSs!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72rQDATBp$ 

ORCID as well is a valuable source to follow his whole professional 
activities and publications: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-2682__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72rkWLP54$ 

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