NEWS
This section displays references to the latest major additions or changes of the contents of the links from
<http://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/> and
<https://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/Research.html>

DATE and REFERENCE

2006-02-14 Whither Computers and Systems? Scheduled for publication in 2006, on occasion of the 40th jubilee of the department of computer and systems sciences of the University of Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Technology.

2006-02-25 Platonic Information Technology (2000-2001, 300 KB, also in PDF-format), formerly in the "Education" page is now included also in the "Research" web page.

2006-04-02 A link was added to the main index page, referring to a newly created private homepage which displays contributions with weak disciplinary connections, dealing mainly with CULTURAL CRITICISM.

2006-04-03 and 2006-04-04 References to the philosopher Bernard Lonergan and to the historian and political scientist Tage Lindbom as source of inspiration were inserted in my statement of research interests.

2006-04-04 For the purpose of clarification, the title of research paper #12 in the linked page on Research was completed with its original subtitle "Eastern or neo-romantic wholes, and the return to Western systems".

2006-12-23 Some reshuffling was done by moving some items in the link "University and society" to my private home page.

2007-10-07 Research Summary on occasion of the 70th Birthday. On occasion of my 70th birthday in october 2007, and as a response to inquiries about research results, thoughts and feelings, both professional and personal.

2008-05-28 The Research Position statement and overview for the period after September 2002 was updated in order to clarify the role of personal relationships in senior research.

2008-09-25 Interview in June 2008 (in Swedish), on occasion of a short and quite informal interview at the Umeå Center för Interaction Technology. Linked to "Research".

2008-11-19 Addition to the Research page of material relating to RESEARCH PROGRAM 1989-1991.

2009-07-01 Addition of the possibility of downloading in pdf-format (in three parts, 22 MB +44 MB +48 MB) the dissertation on "Quality-control of information" from the link describing the work.

2009-07-11 Addition to Research page of a popular summary (in Swedish - in pdf-format) of my reflections including research and heritage, on occasion of my 70th birthday as captured in an interview published by the newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren 19 October 2007.

2009-07-21 Added to my main homepage a partial SUMMARY of my professional presentation in terms of a link to the entry in Wikipedia, as edited by Wikipedia contributors.

2010-04-07 to 2010-08-23 Added entries in my private weblog-Blog as a hint about my ongoing concerns to being partly incorporated in my ongoing work.

2011-01-03 Added  a section (number 10) on my ongoing work and a book review in my Research page.

2011-01-22 Uppdated the page University and Society with item No.9.

2011-02-21 Added item No. 11 referring to WIKILEAKS-Assange to the Research page.

2011-03-07 Added item No. 12 referring to PRIVACY-INTEGRITY OF INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION to Research page.

2011-04-02 Added item No. 13 ETHICS OF RESEARCH AND "THE LUCIFER EFFECT" to my research page.

2011-06-12 Added item No. 14 WIKILEAKS, INFORMATION, AND SYSTEMS to my research page.

2011-11-19 Updated item nr. 10 on the Research page.

2012-02-01 Revised and completed the research page on my PhD dissertation on QUALITY-CONTROL OF INFORMATION.

2012-04-10 Inserted in the research page an item (No. 17) and link to a summary and review of a recent French book on philosophy of technology with the title TRENDS IN PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY.

2012-07-13 Added item 18 on the research page concerning an essay on Ethics in Technology, and Theology of the Flesh as a contribution to explain how and why ethical issues tend to be ignored in technological research and research on technology.

2012-10-15 Added item 19 on the research page about a book review with the title The Illusion of Technological Agnosticism.

2012-10-15 Added item 20 on the research page, with the title Research Summary on Occasion of my 75th birthday.

2012-11-02 Added item 21 on the research page, with the title Preliminary (!) Research Summary on Occasion of my 80th birthday.

2013-02-10 Added item 22 on the research page with the title The Illusion of Communicative Information.

2013-10-31 Added item 23 on the research page with the title Wikipedia Democracy, and Wikicracy.

2014-03-01 Added item 24 on the research page with the title Reflections on a Departmental 20 years' jubilee 2014.

2014-04-03 Added item 25 on the research page with the title Information as Debate, Peer Review, and Publication.

2014-10-24 Added items 26 and 27, on the research page including a necessary revision of an old paper (1991, 2004) on Humanistic Computer Science including the issue of Cooperative Work, and the plan (in Portuguese) of an invited keynote lecture addressing the Tenth Brazilian Congress of Systems at the university of S.Paulo to be held 28-30 October 2014, concerning the relation between systems and informatics: Systems and Networks of Cooperation - From Theory to Practice.

2017-06-05 Changed the number of item 28 to 29, on the research page, the draft of work in progress since 2014, with the preliminary title of Computers as embodyment of mathematics and logic.

2017-06-05 Added item 28 on the research page, about Conflict between Logic and Values Exemplified in Gender Issues.

2018-02-19 Added item 29 on the research page, the final draft on Computers as embodied mathematics and logic.

2018-08-22 Completed the transfer of a number of my research papers over to the Internet-Archive.

2018-05-12 I made a final adjustment of item 30 on the research page, leading to "Information and Theology for Computer Applications".

2019-12-02 This item is my introduction to an essay on "Conscience and Truth" by former cardinal and later pope Benedict XVI Joseph Ratzinger discussing what I perceive as being the limits of rationality in terms of the relation between authority and conscience including personal convictions about scientific truth.

2020-08-05 This item about “Computerized logic acrobatics” is about the illusion that ultimate truth represented by science and daily common sense can basically, if not exclusively, be framed in Dmathematical-logical form that allows its processing by computers.

2020-09-14 The meaning of human-computer interaction is a work-in-progress on reflections upon experiences of on-line computer interactions, relating them to insights into the core meaning of computers, computation and computerization as advanced mainly in earlier texts on Computers as embodied mathematics and logic, and Computerization as logic acrobatics.

2021-08-31 Climate and apocalyptic global warming? By the year 2018-2019 climate change and global warming had come to be considered by the world's mass and social media as well as by "big science" and in the political discourse as being the main and most urgent problem of mankind because of apocalyptic visions about the future of humanity. I do oppose the "moralistic" tone with which the supposedly established truth of global warming os presented as if it were no longer debatable, classifying dissidents as conspiracy theorists or worse.

Several news that appeared after the 2021-08-31 can be extracted from above the number 34 of the list of all works listed at the RESEARCH page.