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Welcome to the IEG newsletter
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In this issue:
 - Publications
 - Forthcoming
 - Conferences & Talks
 - Others

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Publications
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- P. Allo:
  . "Review of: Models of a Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert Simon
    (Augier & March, eds.)". Minds & Machines, 16(2): 221-224.

- L. Floridi:
  . "Peering into the Future of the Infosphere", TidBITS,
    http://db.tidbits.com/article/8686

- K. Mather:
  . Review in "ACM Computing Reviews", October 18 2006, of L. Floridi
    "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy"

  . "Codes of ethics: Protecting whose interest?" in Information Age,
    October/November 2006, pp.38-39.

  . Review in "ACM Computing Reviews", September 14 2006, of N.
    Mander-Huits "Moral responsibility and IT for human advancement"

  . Review in "ACM Computing Reviews", August 08 2006, of D. Johnson &
    K. Miller "A dialogue on responsibility, moral agency and IT
    systems"

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Forthcoming
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- P. Allo:
  . "Local Information and Adaptive Consequence". Logique & Analyse,
    49(196).

- L. Floridi:
  . "Semantic Information: Philosophical Issues and Theories", Lecture
    Notes in Computer Science.

  . "Information Technologies and the Tragedy of the Good Will", Ethics
    and Information Technology.

  . "A look into the future impact of ICT on our lives", The Information
    Society.

  . "Data", article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social
    Sciences, 2nd edition, editor in chief William A. Darity
    (Macmillan).

  . "Por una filosofìa de la Información", to be reprinted in Big Bang
    (http://www.bigbang.com.uy)

- K. Mather:
  . (Submitted), 'Information ethics as limits on behaviour in the
    information environment', Ethics and Information Technology

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Conferences & Talks
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- L. Floridi:
  . Invited speaker, Information Ethics Roundtable, CUNY (Hunter
    College, New York, Spring 2008)

  . Invited speaker, Filosofiska Institutionen, University of Uppsala
    (Uppsala, Spring 2007)

  . Invited speaker, Birkbeck College Philosophy Society, University of
    London (May/June 2007)

  . Invited talk, Informatics Colloquium series, School of Informatics,
    Indiana University (Bloomington, February 16, 2007)

  . Invited talk, Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series, University
    of Arizona (Tucson, February 9, 2007)

  . ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture, University of Arizona (Tucson,
    February 8, 2007)

  . Invited talk, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of
    Arizona (Tucson, February 7, 2007)

  . Invited speaker, Synthese Annual Conference "Between Logic and
    Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in
    Philosophy", Carlsberg Academy (Copenhagen, October 3- 5, 2007)

  . "Relevant Information", invited speaker, Computer Science
    Department, Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden, September 2006)

- K. Mather:
  . Invited seminar, "Information Ethics: Extending Computer Ethics",
    CAPPE, University of Melbourne, August 23rd 2006.

  . Refereed abstract accepted for ETHICOMP 2007, Tokyo, March 2007:
    "Information Ethics: ICT Professional Responsibility in the
    Information Environment"

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Others
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- L. Floridi:
  . elected Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford

  . elected President, International Association for Computing And
    Philosophy http://www.ia-cap.org

  . elected Marie Curie Fellow, European Project on Memory and ICT

  . area editor (computing and information), editorial board of
    Synthese.

  . signed the contract with OUP for his next book on
    The Philosophy of Information.


- K. Mather:
  . Elected by St Cross College to spend 6-month sabbatical at Oxford,
    January to June 2007

  . Requested to develop the School Strategic Plan, for the new CSU
    School of Computing and Mathematics, coming into being Jan. 2007 as
    the result of the recent university re-structure at CSU.

- M. Turilli:
  . has had his application for Confirmation of DPhil status formally
    approved by the Computer Science Graduate Studies Committee

- Welcome to the all the new members of the Mailing List.

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