Metainformatics Symposium 2003

Symposium
information

• Program
• Call for participation
• Submission instructions
• Event schedule
• Trip descriptions
• Registration



• Presentation slides

Location
information

• Graz University of Technology
• Graz, Austria
• Travel info
• Lodging info

Event
background

• What is metainformatics?
• Predecessor events
• Future symposia
• Committees
• Sponsors

Welcome!

How to get to the conference events! FOR THE RECEPTION ON 16.Sep go to the Irish Pub Molly Malone's: your hotel staff can give you a map and directions. It is within easy tram or walking distance from anywhere in Graz. FOR THE CONFERENCE SESSIONS ON 17.-20.Sep go to the Technical University campus, Inffeldgasse 25/D. The best way to get to this location is by taxi. Once at the Inffeldgasse part of the campus, please follow the signposting. The presentations will be made in room HSi6, which is one floor above the ground floor. You can find an online map of Graz at the Graz city www site. To find the conference site, type in "Inffeldgasse 25" in the "Suchbegriff" field, and the press the "Suchen" button. To find the reception site, type in "Glockenspielplatz" under "Suchbegriff".

Metainformatics is a deliberately evocative title for a nascent community concerned with finding common ground shared by researchers and practitioners in many different computer science areas, who may use similar methods to achieve different ends. There is interest in finding useful abstractions, notations, analytical frameworks, formalisms, and systems that improve our understanding of the underlying structure of various disciplines and families of systems within Computer Science. Ideally these constructs should have utility in conveying knowledge and understanding across disciplinary boundaries.

The Second Metainformatics Symposium will bring together researchers from a variety of fields including computer science, social sciences and the humanities to share and discuss ideas about the field of computer science, its effects on people both inside and outside the field, and on technologies that may help shape the field's future directions.

The symposium will be structured somewhat differently than many traditional conferences by scheduling sessions intended to foster dialog within small groups of researchers in addition to plenary sessions to stress unifying themes. There will be ample opportunity for in-depth discussions to follow up on ideas presented at larger sessions, as well as several informal gatherings to help foster a sense of community in this new area.

More details will be made available on this site soon. You can always mail mis03@cs.aue.auc.dk for more information. Thanks for your interest.

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