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"INFORMATION: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEXT CENTURY"

The use of modern tools and networks for communications and computation makes the notion of "information" full of meanings, and much more sensible than in the past. As a matter of fact, the "digital revolution" made it clear, also for the non-expert, the fundamental distinction between objects (or structures), and their information content. The notion of information is now widely used both with a real and a metaphorical meaning, and the information is now considered to be a primary good whose production and exchange measures the level of development of human society. Information is also a novel key concept in the scientific understanding of reality. Mathematical and logical theories developed in the area of Theoretical Computer Science, Information Theory, and Communications suggest new techniques and methodologies for a deeper analysis and a better understanding of systems characterized by very complex phenomenologies and structures, such as biological systems, cognitive systems, social and economical systems. In such a scenario the Congress "Information: Science and Technology for the Next Century" has the objective of illustrating and reflecting upon the impact of Information on human life and human culture. (Italian version )

PROGRAMME

STUDIORUM
UNIVERSITATUM
DOCENTIUM
CONGRESSUS

JUBILEE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
"THE UNIVERSITY FOR A NEW HUMANISM"

 
Conference on

    "INFORMATION: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEXT CENTURY"

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Prof. Giovanni Iacovitti
Prof. Alberto Marinelli
Prof. Mario Morcellini
Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Prof. Alberto Pettorossi
Prof. Andrzej Skowron

SEPTEMBER 5
THEME: INFORMATION AND THE HUMAN PERSON

09:00 Introduction to the Conference of the Magnifico Rettore of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Roma
      Session I : "Information Technologies in Cognitive Processes"
09:15 Prof. Donald A. Norman, President, UNext Learning Systems
         Prof. Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, USA
         “Applying Cognitive Science”
10:10 First Responder
10:30 Second Responder
10:50 Open Discussion

11:10 Coffee break

      Session II : "Information and intelligence"
11:25 Prof. Tomaso Poggio, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at MIT
         MIT's Artifical Intelligence Laboratory, Boston, USA
         “How the Brain might work: The role of information and learning in the understanding 
         and replicating intelligence”
12:20 First Responder 
12:40 Second Responder
13:00 Open Discussion

13:20 Lunch

THEME: INFORMATION IN THE NATURAL WORLD

      Session III: "Intelligence and natural world"
14:25 Prof. Robert Kowalski Imperial College, Department of Computing, London, UK
         “Artificial Intelligence and the Natural Universe”
15:20 First Responder
15:40 Second Responder
16:00 Open Discussion

16:20 Coffee break

      Session IV : "Biological Information" 
16:35 Prof. Richard J. Lipton, Georgia Tech. College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
         "DNA information processing"
17:30 First Responder 
17:50 Second Responder
18:10 Open Discussion
18:30 End of Session

SEPTEMBER 6
THEME: INFORMATION AND SOCIETY

      Session V : "Perspectives of Information and Communication Technology"
09:15 Prof. Guido Vannucchi, Politecnico di Milano. Member of Consiglio Superiore delle Telecomunicazioni,
         Milano,Italy
         "Information and Communication Technologies"
10:10 First Responder. 
10:30 Second Responder 
10:50 Open Discussion

11:10 Coffee break

      Session VI : "The information society"
11:25 Prof. Graziella Mazzoli, Chairman of the Facoltà di Sociologia.University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
        "Social impact of Information and Communication Technology"
12:20 First Responder
12:40 Second Responder
13:00 Open Discussion
13:20 End of Conference