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NA-CAP@RPI Home
Attention: The CAP Conference will no longer be operating out of the Darrin Communications Center (DCC). We have moved to RPI’s new Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Stay tuned for more updates as the conference approaches.
This is the website for the North American Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP) 2006 Conference being held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from August 10-12, 2006.
Host: Selmer Bringsjord (selmer@rpi.edu)
Program Chair: Patrick Grim (pgrim@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)
This conference and its counterparts around the world aim to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.
For more information about The International Association for Computing and Philosophy and its conferences, please visit http://www.iacap.org.
To view information and video from last year's North American Computing and Philosophy conference, please visit http://oregonstate.edu/groups/cap/2005/program.html.
A selection of papers from this conference is to appear as a special issue of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Selected papers from the conference are also to appear in On The Horizon.
Confirmed Speakers
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Herbert A. Simon keynote address
William J. Rapaport
Computer Science and Philosophy, Buffalo University |
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Douglas Engelbart keynote address
Eric Dietrich
Editor, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy, Binghamton University |
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Peter Ludlow
Sims Online persona non grata
Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Michigan |
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Meredith Finkelstein and Cindy Jeffers
Botmatrix robotics art collective
Technical directors for "Heddatron" |
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