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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear FISers, </p>
This Tuesday we will have a Dialogue at the International Academy of
Information Studies honoring Karl.<br>
I have also penned a brief obituary (below) written for
Philosophies, Journal in which he was a member of the Editorial
Board.<br>
Karl's last article was published in the International Journal of
Information Theories and Applications, Volume 32, No. 4, 2025:<br>
DOI: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.54521/ijita32-04-p07__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72lGuM_6W$" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.54521/ijita32-04-p07</a>
<h2 class="MsoNormal"><b>The last of the Akkadians: Celebrating the
legacy of Karl Javorszky</b></h2>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Speakers:</span></b></h3>
<b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><font size="4">Louis
H. Kauffman</font></span></b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">, </span><br>
<i>Emeritus Professor Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and
Computer Science</i><br>
<i>University of Illinois at Chicago. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://homepages.math.uic.edu/*kauffman/__;fg!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72gaOwgTT$" moz-do-not-send="true">https://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/</a></i><br>
<br>
<i><b><font size="4">Katherine Peil Kauffman</font></b></i><br>
<i>EFS International and Institute for Systems Biology</i><br>
<i>Affiliated of Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity
School. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.emotionalsentience.com/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72mviBA6i$" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.emotionalsentience.com/</a></i><br>
<br>
The session will take place on <b><i>Tuesday, December 9th</i></b><b>,</b>
<b>at</b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><b>:</b>
<b>17:30 (CET) | 11:30 AM (EST) | 00:30 AM (Thurs.Beijing)</b></span><b>
</b><br>
In the <b>MEET link: </b><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72ri1sh-6$" moz-do-not-send="true">https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1</a><br>
</b><br>
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. <br>
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member <b>Plamen Simeonov.<font
size="4"><br>
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<b>The session will be recorded </b>and posted on the YouTube
channel of the IAIS Dialogues: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72izbO2_t$" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES</a><br>
<p><i>© International Academy of Information Studies: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/iais-info/home__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72vh1Rw2J$" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sites.google.com/view/iais-info/home</a></i></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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. </div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72vqfmuZf$">https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a>
) where he preferentially presented his further elaborations on
the relationship between the accounting systems N! and N? as a
genuine foundation of Nature accounting processes. During almost
30 years veteran FISers enjoyed his curious writing style, with
plenty of metaphors and colorful references, always eloquently
presented in a friendly and perhaps rather insisting way. But Karl
was always a charming man, discrete, polite and somehow elusive
and shy --except concerning his loved Sumerian / Akkadian counting
systems and the way Nature computes her cyclicity. He will forgive
me that from time to time I ventured to discuss him that enigmatic
N? </div>
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Apart of the many messages published in FIS list archives, there is
a collection of Karl's more formal papers at <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!UbKGD8XEyM9zI8aWu3wSh_euFlQRmfb2yHeSiaIUtFKBYQo6kZa3EhSb2F9c8IfNmA0B_VZEP9vIaT0zIQU-7ZE$">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky</a><br>
And also at Google Scholar, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="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$">https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=es&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=karl+javorszky&btnG=</a><br>
<p>ORCID as well is a valuable source to follow his whole
professional activities and publications: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-2682__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WAypVmhjge_XzcRy45t_3Bsdt-IfShdIv7b0apxI77lt8dNjoyHXwlgBJ00CMDqcpd0augvYLVz3YbMGSlF72rkWLP54$">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-2682</a></p>
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