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.