Ergebnis für URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/GB-0.html _________________________________________________________________________________
From Intelligent Networks to the Global Brain
Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology
The First Global Brain Workshop (GBrain 0)
[BrEarth.GIF]
July 3-5, 2001
[1]Vrije Universiteit Brussel, [2]Brussels, [3]Belgium
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Important: the final program with detailed instructions and a map of the location
is available at the following URLs (respectively in PDF and in Word versions, for
good quality printing):
[4]http://pcp.vub.ac.be/Conf/GB_Final_Program.pdf
[5]http://pcp.vub.ac.be/Conf/GB_Final_Program.doc
The present web page was last updated on June 21, and will no longer be updated.
The [6]page with abstracts of contributions, though, will continue to be updated.
Contents:
[7]Theme
[8]Background
[9]Topics
[10]Organization
[11]Program
[12]Submission of Papers
[13]Practical Info
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Workshop Theme
The "Global Brain" is a metaphor for the emerging collectively intelligent
network formed by the people of this planet together with the computers,
knowledge bases, and communication links that connect them together. This network
is an immensely complex, self-organizing system that not only processes
information, but increasingly can be seen to play the role of a brain: making
decisions, solving problems, learning new connections and discovering new ideas.
No individual, organization or computer is in control of this system: its
knowledge and intelligence are distributed over all its components. They emerge
from the collective interactions between all the human and machine subsystems.
Such a system may be able to tackle current and emerging global problems that
have eluded more traditional approaches, but at the same time it will create new
technological and social challenges which are still difficult to imagine.
For further info on this theme see: the [14]Global Brain FAQ, [15]Global Brain
bibliography
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Background and Motivation
Without doubt, the most important technological, economic and social development
of the past decade is the emergence of a global computer-based communication
network. This network has been growing at an explosive rate, affectingdirectly or
indirectlyever more aspects of the daily lives of the people on this planet.
Amidst this growing complexity, we need to look ahead, and try to understand
where all these changes are leading to.
A general trend is that the information network becomes ever more global, more
encompassing, more tightly linked to the individuals and groups that use it, and
more intelligent in the way it supports them. The web doesn't just passively
provide information, it now also actively alerts and guides people to the best
options for them personally. To support this, the web increasingly builds on the
knowledge and intelligence of all its users and information providers
collectively, thanks to technologies such as collaborative filtering, agents, and
online markets. It appears as though the net is turning into a collective nervous
system for humanity: a global brain.
Although these developments seem very modern, the underlying vision of society as
an organism-like system has deep roots, going back to thinkers such as Aristotle,
Spencer, and Teilhard de Chardin. We wish to explore this metaphor of the "global
brain" as a guide to understand and steer future developments in science,
technology and society, and as a basis for an integrating world view, that uses
the insights gathered in different scientific disciplines in order to illuminate
the place of us, humans, in the complex, evolving world that encompasses us.
The key goals of the workshop are to:
Bring together a small, selected group of researchers involved in Global Brain
related theorizing and applications.
Have intensive discussions on all aspects of this common theme, and explore the
differences and convergences between the different approaches.
Try to achieve a consensus on a general definition of "the Global Brain".
Start preparing the program for a large-scale conference on the same theme,
directed at a much wider audience, to be held in Silicon Valley in summer
2002.
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Topics
The concept of the Global Brain touches an almost unlimited variety of topics
connected directly or indirectly to information technology and society. However,
to maintain a coherent focus, contributions to this workshop should discuss
systems that fulfill the following criteria:
1. consist of interacting human and technological components;
2. exhibit intelligent, "mind-like" or "brain-like" properties
(problem-solving, decision-making, learning, thinking, sensing, etc.);
3. have these properties emerge from, or distributed over, many components,
rather than being localized in one or a few components;
4. have applications or implications that extend potentially to the global
level, offering us a unifying vision or worldview that encompasses society
and technology.
Theory and Technology:
To turn the web into a truly brain-like system, new technologies and formalisms
are being developed. The workshop will look at the most important of these, with
an emphasis on methods that create networked, distributed or collective
intelligence. These methods may include, but are not limited to:
Information retrieval and recommendation systems
Web agents and communities of agents
Syntactic and semantic knowledge exchange protocols
Shared knowledge representation, exchange, and interpretation
Human-computer interaction in collective systems
Network dynamics and analysis
Shared virtual environments (graphical and text-based)
Distributed computing and storage
Peer-to-peer and other advanced network architectures
Knowledge discovery and data mining in networks
Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Complex adaptive and evolutionary systems theory
Global collaboratories
Ubiquitous computing
Wearable computers and augmented reality
Humanity:
The global brain is not just about technological systems, but about what emerges
from the interplay between technology and humanity. Therefore, the workshop will
look at the implications of the emergence of such an intelligent global network
at the social, economical, psychological and philosophical levels. Topics may
include, but are not limited to:
Education (distance learning, electronic universities)
Effects on economic and social development and integration
Infrastructure stability, robustness, and management
Implications for governance (electronic democracy)
Implications for human freedom and human rights
Fostering of diversity, privacy, and security with social integration
Collective knowledge management
Conscious-technology
Global consciousness
Tackling information overload
Human-network symbiosis
Network economy and its stability
Integrating global brain and global ecosystem
Society as a superorganism
Long-term evolution of humanity
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Organization The workhop is organized by the [16]Global Brain Group, an
international association of researchers founded in 1996, in collaboration with
the [17]Research Community on the "Construction of Integrating Worldviews", which
is coordinated by the [18]Center "Leo Apostel" at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
It is funded by the [19]Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the [20]Fund for
Scientific Research-Flanders.
Workshop Chair
[21]Francis Heylighen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Workshop Committee
[22]Stephan Bugaj ([23]Webmind, inc., New York)
[24]Joël de Rosnay (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris)
[25]Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University)
[26]Ivan Havel (Charles University, Prague)
[27]Cliff Joslyn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
[28]Ben Goertzel ([29]Webmind, inc., New York)
[30]Luis Rocha (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
[31]Bryan Thompson (Global Wisdom inc., Washington DC)
Invited speakers
[32]Gottfried Mayer-Kress (Pennsylvania State University)
[33]Ben Houston (Carleton University, Ottawa)
Local Arrangements Committee
Michael Pleumeekers
Alex Riegler
Didier Durlinger
Eric Baert
Margeret Heath
Bart d'Hooghe
Corinne Ciechanow
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Program
Tue, July 3
am: welcome and lectures with questions
* Francis Heylighen (VUB): [34]Why the Global Superorganism Must Evolve a Brain
* Cliff Joslyn (LANL): [35]What Could We Mean By "Global Brain": How
Distributed Knowledge Systems Facilitate Social Control in Semiotic
Agent-Based Architectures
* Parker Rossman (ASIS World Brain group): [36]University and the Global Brain
- Some Questions
* Gottfried Mayer-Kress (Pennsylvania State University): [37]International
Conferences as "Binding Events" in a Global Brain
pm: lectures with questions:
* Bill Hibbard (University of Wisconsin): [38]Network Diameter and Emotional
Values in the Global Brain
* Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University): [39]Evolutionary Units
and Adaptive Intelligence: why a brain could not be produced by internal
evolutionary processes (but could be composed of such)
* Susantha Goonatilake (New School for Social Research, New York):
[40]Information currents in an interlinked ocean of genes, cultures and
computing artifacts
Discussion: [41]what is the GB and how does it evolve?
Wed, July 4
am: lectures with questions
* Joël de Rosnay (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris):
[42]Bioelectronic man/machine interfaces and symbiotic intelligent
environments; increase in complexity of the Internet interfaces and the
darwinian process of selective stabilization of internet nodes
* Francis Heylighen (VUB): [43]Technologies for an Intelligent Web
* Johan Bollen (LANL): [44]Experiments with web learning and spreading
activation (?)
* Bryan Thompson (Global Wisdom, Washington DC): [45]The Cognitive Web
pm: lectures with questions
* Ben Goertzel (Webmind): [46]The Webmind AI Engine as the Cortex of the Global
Brain
* Craig A. Kaplan (iQ inc. & University of California Santa Cruz):
[47]Forecasting Stock Prices Using Collective Intelligence
* Ben Goertzel (Webmind), Yuri V. Macklakov (Webmind), Vladimir G. Red'ko
(Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics): [48]Model of Evolution of Web
Agents
Discussion: [49]which technologies can support the GB?
Thu, July 5
am: lectures with questions
* Stephan Bugaj (Webmind): [50]Computer-Human Shared Intelligence
* Ben Houston (Carleton University, Ottawa): [51]Augmenting Human Intellect
* George Pór (Center for Advanced Learning Technologies, INSEAD): [52]Using
Dynamic Knowledge Repositories to Support "Real-Time/Delayed Time" Synergy in
Global Communities that Learn
* Anthony Judge and Nadia McLaren (Union of International Associations,
Brussels): [53]Simulating a Global Brain - Phobias, Delusions, Psychoses and
All: using networks of international organizations, world problems,
strategies, and values
pm: lectures with questions
* Vladimir Mokiy (Informological Institute, Moscow): [54]Transdisciplinary
safety of the "Global Brain" project
* Shann Turnbull (Macquarie University, Sydney): [55]Design criteria for a
Global Brain
Discussion: [56]1) how should we design a GB?
[57]2) where do we go from here: GB conference, institutionalization of GB group?
For more details on the authors and their presentations, check the full list of:
[58]Abstracts of presentations (sometimes with links to full papers and author
biographies)
Time Schedule
Tue, July 3 Wed, July 4 Thu, July 5
10:00 Heylighen de Rosnay Bugaj
10:40 Joslyn Heylighen Houston
11:20 coffee pause coffee pause coffee pause
11:50 Rossman Bollen Pór
12:30 Mayer Thompson Judge
13:10 lunch lunch lunch
14:10 Hibbard Goertzel Mokiy
14:50 Edmonds Kaplan Turnbull
15:30 coffee pause coffee pause coffee pause
16:00 Goonatilake Goertzel et al. discussion 1
16:40 discussion discussion discussion 2
19:00 reception workshop dinner
Other participants:
* Diederik Aerts (VUB)
* Alex Riegler (VUB)
* Ivan Havel (Charles University, Prague)
* Margeret Heath (University of Cape Town)
* Sascha Ignjatovic (ISOC, Vienna)
* Paul Iliano
* Michael Pleumeekers (VUB)
* Didier Durlinger (VUB)
* Eric Baert (VUB)
* Bart d'Hooghe (VUB)
* Corrine Ciechanow (Brussels)
* Jerome C. Glenn (United Nations University): Conscious-Technology & The
Millennium Project (participation unlikely)
* Peter Russell (peterussell.com): (participation unlikely)
* Gregory Stock (UCLA): (participation unlikely)
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Papers
Prospective contributors are invited to submit a 400-500 words abstract of the
presentation they would like to make. It should include references, bibliographic
or URL, to already existing work on this theme, by the author or by others, along
with the author's name, home page URL, postal and email address and affiliations
(see the [59]application form). The submission (in text-only or HTML) should be
sent by email to the workshop chair, Francis Heylighen
.
Although the deadline for papers was closed on May 1, 2001, there is still a
possibility for 1 or 2 additional papers that are very focused on the workshop
theme to be added to the program, provided they are submitted as soon as
possible. All proposals will be refereed by the workshop committee, and selected
on the basis of the quality of ideas and presentation, and relevance to the
workshop theme. You will be notified about the acceptance of your proposal as
soon as possible.
All workshop papers will be published on the website of the Global Brain Group,
and a selection will appear as a special issue of the journal "[60]Foundations of
Science". Contributors are encouraged to already make a draft version of their
paper available on the web, and send its URL to the chair of the workshop
committee, so that a link to it can be made from the workshop website, and other
participants can read it before the workshop.
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Practical Information
Participation
In order to intensify discussions, the number of people attending is limited to
max. 30. There are still a few places available for participants who don't
present a paper, provided they can clearly formulate their special interest in
the workshop topic. Contact the workshop chair. Coffee pauses and the reception
with drinks and snacks are free for registered participants. Registration is
free, but must be accepted by the workshop committee. The workshop dinner is not
included, and will cost 1500 BF (about $32) for the participants. It will include
several course of very fine food with appropriate wines and other drinks.
Setting
The workshop will take place in room G020 of the Campus "Oefenplein" of the
[61]Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, i.e. the
Dutch-speaking university, not the French-speaking university ULB). Room G020 is
situated in the central building G, one level above street level, and must be
accessed from the "esplanade", the concrete walking area connecting the buildings
F & G to the university restaurant.
The workshop room will have high speed Internet connection, data projection,
overhead projection, and Windows and Mac computers, so as to allow live
demonstrations. It will be possible to exhibit books, papers, or brochures on a
side-table. Coffee and snacks will be served in the entrance hall just outside
the workshop room. Breakfasts and lunches can be taken inexpensively at the VUB
student restaurant just across the esplanade (about $6 for a full meal, less for
sandwiches, fast food, etc.), or at any of a number of nearby restaurants and
snackbars. The campus further provides various facilities including a bank,
restaurants, cafés, library, fotocopying center, swimming pool, sauna, running
track, and various sports fields.
Location
The Campus, which is surrounded by three large avenues: Pleinlaan, Gen.
Jacqueslaan and Triomflaan, is about a 10 minute [62]metro (subway) (station
Petillon) drive from the historical city center (station Brussel Centraal). It
can also be reached by train (stations Etterbeek or Delta), bus, or tramway
(lines 23 and 90). (see map below)
Brussels, the capital of Belgium and of Europe, and the surrounding attractions
of Belgium provide many occasions for enjoyment and visits. They are certainly
worth taking a few additional days for sightseeing. If you have only one day or
less, make sure to walk around the "Grand' Place", the magnificent central square
with the town hall, and the surrounding tourist area including the restaurants in
the Rue des Bouchers. For further practical information on travel, culture, and
tourism, see: [63]Things to see in Brussels and [64]Belgium: Overview.
Directions
[65]Brussels is very easy to reach. It is connected by high speed trains (between
1.5 and 3 hour journeys) to London, Paris, Cologne, and Amsterdam. [66]Brussels
Airport at Zaventem has [67]direct flights from all major cities and indirect
connections from virtually anywhere. You may be able to book tickets
inexpensively via [68]www.flights.com. The airport has a 15 minute train service
three times per hour to the city centre, from where you can reach your hotel or
the campus via the metro (subway). You can also get from the airport directly to
the workshop location by taxi, but this is much more expensive.
See the [69]Brussels public transport website for calculating the best real-time
connection, using subway, tram or bus, from any address in Brussels to the "Vrije
Universiteit Brussel" (available only in French and Dutch), or the Brussels
[70]subway navigator (English, but only for subway stations), where you should
aim for the station "Petillon" that is closest to the campus.
More directions [71]how to reach the campus, [72]how to reach the CHIS Department
(same building G as workshop, but different floor; includes good map of campus),
[73]Directions to the VUB campus, [74]travel information (somewhat out of date).
Detailed maps of the public transport and main streets in PDF: [75]surroundings
of the VUB, [76]whole of Brussels
Accommodation
A small number of university guest rooms ($18-23 per day), in the immediate
vicinity of the workshop location (Triomflaan, i.e. the main road surrounding the
campus, on the N-E side), have already been allocated to specific workshop
participants. These offer a basic apartment, living room, bathroom and kitchen,
but not the kind of services that you would find in a hotel. The people who
booked such a room will have to collect their keys from the building of the night
guards ("bewaking") on campus, just next to the big building G where the workshop
takes place. (see map below)
Other participants will have to book a hotel on their own. There are plenty of
hotels in Brussels, with rates starting at about $40 per day, breakfast included.
Most of them can be booked over the web, see e.g. [77]Brussel Hotels in the
Google directory, [78]Belgium-Hotels, [79]ABA Brussels Hotels, [80]Brussels
Hotels search... Please reserve early, as it may be difficult at times to still
find rooms when you arrive. Unfortunately, there are no hotels within walking
distance of the campus, so it is advisable to choose a hotel in the center of
town or in the European district, close to the main metro line that passes near
the university (direction Hermann-Debroux). For less expensive accommodation, you
can also book a Bed & Breakfast room at [81]Bed&Brussels, or check some
[82]Brussels Youth Hostels (and [83]another list). If you need assistance to book
a hotel, or with the guest rooms, the secretary of the [84]Center Leo Apostel,
Sylvia Stuer, may be able to help you: [85]einmag@vub.ac.be
Map
The map belows shows the campus itself with its direct surroundings, including
the Metro station Petillon, the Center "Leo Apostel" (CLEA), the workshop
location in building G, the university restaurant R, the guest room buildings on
the Triomflaan, and the building of the "bewaking", where guest room occupants
can collect their keys.
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