2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI)

Proceedings

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Marcin J. Schroeder¹  Mark Burgin² 

[1] Global Learning Center, Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Tohoku University;Department of Computer Science, University of California

关键词: information;    computing;    research forum;    artificial and natural intelligence;    theory;    foundations;    digital humanism;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2022081001

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Continuing the tradition of S4SI Summits, the 2021 Summit had the form of ten federated conferences focusing on more specific aspects of the study of information. Its title, “Information Study for the Benefit of Humanity: Learning from the Past and Building the New Normal,” referred to the present great challenge faced by the global community—the pandemic of a new coronavirus that itself can be considered a large scale informational phenomenon. However, the pandemic was not the only global challenge discussed at the conferences contributing to the summit. Another great global challenge discussed at the summit was related to the issues arising with the rapidly increasing role of information technology in all domains of human life and work, and the dangers of their abuse or uncontrolled drift in directions that threaten human wellbeing. These concerns pointed at the need for a better understanding of information as a central concept of science, technology, and culture, another main theme of the summit.

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