Call for Papers: Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies
December 7th, 2008 –
A Call of Papers has been issued for a track on “Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies,” at the 7th European conference on Computing And Philosophy—ECAP 2009, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2-4 July 2009.
Historical analysis of a broad range of paradigm shifts in science, biology, history, and technology–in particular in computing technology–suggests an accelerating rate of progress. This observation has led the attempted unification of the predictive power of biological evolution, cultural evolution, and technological evolution under a “Law of Accelerating Returns.” As a consequence, John von Neumann forecasted the arrival of an “essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue.” This notion of Singularity coincides in time and nature with Alan Turing (1950) and Stephen Hawking’s (1998) expectation of machines that exhibit intelligence on par with an average human by 2050. John Irving Good (1965) and Vernor Vinge (1993) expect it to take the form of an ‘intelligence explosion’: the process by which ultraintelligent machines design ever more intelligent machines. Transhumanists suggest a parallel process of explosive progress in human intelligence. Unfortunately, the very term ‘Singularity’ also suggests the presence of an ‘event horizon,’ an epistemological barrier on our ability to understand the events that may follow it.
We invite abstracts examining the following issues from a philosophical, computational, mathematical, and scientific points of view:
1. Empirical assessments of the Law of Accelerating Returns
2. Estimating the reliability of a technological forecasts
3. Historical analysis of the Law of Accelerating Returns
4. The impact of acceleration on science and society by 2050
5. Hazards of technological acceleration and preventative measures
6. The nature of the Technological Singularity
7. The nature of an intelligence explosion
8. Beyond the ‘event horizon’ of the Technological Singularity
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 23 Feb. 2009
Notification: 16 Mar. 2009
ECAP Conference: 2-4 Jul. 2009
Submission guidelines: http://ia-cap.org/e-cap09/
Papers submitted to the Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies track in ECAP 2009 will also be considered for publication in a special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier).
Received from the track chair, Amnon H. Eden, School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK and Center For Inquiry, Amherst NY.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security
IJCSIS
ISSN: 1947-5500
Special Issue May 2009
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security promote timely dissemination of high impact research that makes fundamental contribution to the advancement of both theoretical understanding and practical performance of communication networks and security. Paper submissions are invited in the area of computer science, in particular the technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Computer Science and Information Technology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Internet Technologies, Infrastructure, Services and Applications
Open Source Tools, Open Models and Architectures
Security, Privacy and Trust
Network Security: privacy, authentication, access control, intrusion detection and prevention
Navigation Systems, Location Based Services Social Networks and Online Communities
ICT Convergence, Digital Economy and Digital Divide
Networks and Communications Protocols: error recovery, flow and congestion control,routing, multicasting, medium access control
Computing and Information Systems
Grid Architectures and Services
Emerging applications and systems
All paper submissions will be handled electronically and detailed instructions on submission procedure are available on IJCSIS web pages (http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/). Accepted papers will be published online and indexed by Google Scholar, CiteSeerX and Directory for Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) and SCIRUS. The authors of accepted papers will receive a CD-ROM of the IJCSIS Volume.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Date: 20 April 2009
Acceptance Notification: 15 May 2009
Online Publication Date: 30 May 2009
For other information, please contact IJCSIS Managing Editor, (ijcsiseditor@gmail.com)