IT and Hyperhistory

Fri., Nov 09

On Fri., Nov. 9, from 2:30-4:40 p.m., the SCSU Philosophy Department and Research Center on Computing and Society Present

The 2012 Norbert Wiener Address and Panel:
"Information Technology and Hyperhistory"

Place: Adanti Student Center Theater

The 2012 Norbert Wiener Address featuring UNESCO Professor Luciano Floridi, will examine the important role of information technology in the newly developing era of Hyperhistory.

Panelists:
Joseph Manzella - Anthropology Department, SCSU
Troy Paddock - History Department, SCSU
Richard Volkman - Philosophy Department, SCSU

Luciano Floridi (pictured) (MA Laurea Rome "La Sapienza", MPhil, PhD Warw, MA Oxon, Dr. h. c. Suceava) is UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. His research concerns the philosophy of information and of information ethics. His most recent books are The Philosophy of Information (Oxford, 2011), Information - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010), and The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge, 2010). He is Editor in Chief of Springer's Philosophy & Technology. He has received many awards and prizes, including the Barwise Prize, the Gauss Professorship, and both the Covey Award and Weizenbaum Award in 2012.