KRISTO IVANOV (http://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov)
(12 December 2002, latest updatings usually added at the top of the list)

 

EDUCATION: COURSES, SEMINARS, GUIDELINES
(selected texts in Swedish or in English, with bibliographies in English):

 

(17) Speech held September 27th 2002 on occasion of prof. Kristo Ivanov's promotion to emeritus effective October 1st 2002, by Kenneth Nilsson, head of the department of Informatics, Umeå University. (In Swedish). This is a short selective selective summary of the local, departmental, research and education effort based on more than 40 years' working life.

(16) Professorial will or testament: Parts I and II, (2002, in English). This is a double seminar scheduled for September 18th and 25th 2002 (see seminar calls) reporting some outspoken summarizing reflections upon universitarian experience which can have some importance for younger departmental and disciplinary colleagues, and also for the own future work. It does NOT focus on disciplinary contributions which otherwise were addressed in earlier seminars.

(15) Information, integrity, and university politics, (2002, in English) research seminar with pertinent documentation, expanding the concept of integrity, and linking data integrity (quality of information and security), to privacy, democracy, and law in the perspective of methodology of science and, in particular, systems science.

(14) On privacy, integrity, and freedom of expression [Om privatlivets helgd, integritet och yttrandefrihet]. (In English, with some contents in Swedish, 2002). This is a seminar with documentation related to the Swedish Personal Data Act [ in Swedish, Personuppgiftslagen PUL 1998:204] and to the university's guidelines concerning limitations for the use of home-pages on the Internet-Web. Retitled versions of related articles on Power, research and integrity, were published in Västerbottens-Kuriren, 25 and 27 April 2002.

(13) Contributions of systems thinking to the understanding and use of information technology: Infrastructure, change, and bricolage. Seminar on March 13th 2002 call with related calls to earlier seminars on October 10th 2001, November 11th 2001 and February 20th 2002, with seminar documentation and critical complementary documentation on the body-mind question.

(12) The Design of Inquiring Systems (2002, in Swedish, with title "Undersökande System"), an advanced undergraduate and graduate course and, furthermore, teaching in research seminars corresponding to the ongoing research mentioned above, on

(11) Ethics and Politics of Design and System Cultures (2001, see homepage link to "Research"). Other teaching is represented by

(10) Universities: Technology, Society, Universal Internationalism, and Neo-humanism (also in PDF-format) based on the World Meeting of University Professors in Rome, Italy, 3-10 September 2000,

(9) Theory for Systems Design: Present Problems, (2000-2001), suggested course, with reference to

(8) Platonic Information Technology (2000-2001, 300 KB, also in PDF-format, including Table of Contents) a reader with reference to edited excerpts of Plato's collected works, to be followed later by a similar project on Aristotelian Information Technology, and

(7) Dialectical Systems Design and Beyond,(2000-2001, 300 KB), commented headlines and study material for a series of seminars about perspectives on research in informatics, held at the universities of Umeå (Sweden), Hull (United Kingdom), The Andes - Mérida (Venezuela), and Italian Switzerland-Lugano (Switzerland), and

(6) Information Systems Design: Towards the Design of Inquiring Systems (2001), contribution to The Lugano Summer School on Systems Design, at the University of Italian Switzerland. For documentation see the the previous item on Dialectical Systems Design and Beyond.

(5) Department chairman's will or "testament", upon leaving on June 30 1998 the function as head of the department 1986-1998: documentation (with bibliography) for a double seminar held on June 10 and 11 1998, mainly aimed at departmental colleagues and younger researchers, containing headings for reflections on personal experiences and their possible meaning for future teaching, research, and organization.

(4) Postmodern Relativism and Informatics, seminar held om April 9 1997, on the basis of a handout-text with attachment.

(3) Graduate Self-study Course Readers: Introduction to Research (1997, 140 KB), for up to 40 weeks' self-study, updated (with the exception of a few later bibliographical additions) to the "state of the art" valid at the time of its latest version in 1997 when a new departmental position was created as director for graduate studies. Until further notice the only parts of this document that are translated into English are the labels of the courses in "Kursförteckning och kursinnehåll", and the lists of literature that constitute the main body of the document. This document is supported by the two following ones:

(2) Guidelines-"ideal type" for the (mature self-motivating) Graduate Student (1998, in Swedish), and, dialectically,

(1) Guidelines-"ideal type" for the Graduate Student's Advisor (1998, in Swedish).