Dates & Location: The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET-2010) will be held in 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening through Monday) as a one-day intensive meeting at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.

History: This event is a further outgrowth of the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2007 in Delft and WPE-2008 in London); it is organized by WPE co-founder and engineering co-chair (2007 and 2008), David E. Goldberg, together with immediate past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Diane P. Michelfelder, and noted philosopher of technology, Carl Mitcham along with others interested in building bridges between existing engineering and philosophy organizations.

NEW YORK, March 9, 2010 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Charles P. Thacker the winner of the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award http://awards.acm.org/2010/turing-award.cfm for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the prototype for networked personal computers. Thacker’s design, which he built while at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), reflected a new vision of a self-sufficient, networked computer on every desk, equipped with in

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The GPI is an interdisciplinary group of researchers, interested in the nature, logic, dynamical processes and ethical implications of information and information technologies, including computation and computer science.

The Philosophy of Information (PI) is a new area of research, with roots in philosophical logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of AI and computation, computer ethics, analytic philosophy and several other disciplines and research programs dating from the second half of the twentieth century.