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  To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the world renowned mathematician, code breaker, logician and computer scientist, the first ICO Alan Turing Lecture was held at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchest...


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AISB Workshop: Senso...

Poster: http://aisb.org.uk/media/files/stw2012.pdf (media/files/stw2012.pdf) A day of discussion on the Sensorimotor account of Perception, Consciousness  and Robotics, its development and contemporary state. The first in a seri...


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Ms Pac-Man vs Ghosts...

This year's Ms Pac-man vs Ghosts Competition is now open for submissions. The competition allows you to develop AI controllers for the classical arcade game Ms Pac-Man. However, this year the competition takes a unique look at the...


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AISB YouTube Channel

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AISB 2011 Convention

The AISB'11 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/) was held from 4-7 April at York, organised by Dimitar Kazakov and George Tsoulas.


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Lighthill Debates

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Alan Turing Year

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Honouring Turing at ...

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AISB miscellaneous Bulletin Item

Book announcement: special Issue of 'Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Critical Reflections and the State of the Art"

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1388-1957

Ethics and Information Technology, Springer, has published a special issue in two numbers dedicated to “Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Critical Reflections and the State of the Art”, edited by Charles Ess. Volume 10, Numbers 2-3, 2008. EIT is the most important and influential, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information and communication technology. This is the first time it dedicates a special issue to a researcher’s achievements.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1388-1957
The special issue comprises ten articles by some of the most important researchers in the area and a final reply by Floridi:
Charles Ess, Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information and information ethics: Critical reflections and the state of the art
Bernd Carsten Stahl, Discourses on information ethics: The claim to universality
Philip Brey, Do we have moral duties towards information objects?
Frances S. Grodzinsky, Keith W. Miller and Marty J. Wolf, The ethics of designing artificial agents
Deborah G. Johnson and Keith W. Miller, Un-making artificial moral agents
Dan L. Burk, Information ethics and the law of data representations
Alison Adam, Ethics for things
Herman T. Tavani, Floridi’s ontological theory of informational privacy: Some implications and challenges
Rafael Capurro, On Floridi’s metaphysical foundation of information ecology
Soraj Hongladarom, Floridi and Spinoza on global information ethics
Luciano Floridi, Information Ethics: A Reappraisal (foreword to replies and replies, preprint freely available from http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/preprints/replies.pdf