Preliminary Program
The following draft papers have been accepted for presentation at the Symposium
Francis Heylighen & Johan Bollen
The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model (full paper
available)
Stephen Bates
The End of Geography
Johan Bollen & Francis Heylighen
Algorithms for the Self-Organisation of Distributed, Multi-User Networks
Michael Cranford
The Social Trajectory of Virtual Reality: Substantive Ethics in a World
Without Constraints
Julie M. Albright
Of Mind, Body and Machine: Cyborg Cultural Politics in the Age of
Hypertext
Charles Ostman
The Internet as an Organism
Alberto Cecchi
The Distorted Outside/Inside Antinomy
Carolyn Dowling
From text to teapots - constituting the subject in computer-based
environments
Matthew Taylor
Fiction as Artificial Life: Exploring the Ideosphere
Kevin Howley
Electronic Agrarianism: or Thomas Jefferson Gets a Modem
Michael Schreiber
Fractal Maps of Cyber-Markets
Charles Cameron
WaterBird: A Metaphor for the Net
Dieter Schmalstieg and Michael Gervautz
Implementing Gibsonian Virtual Environments
Mia J. Lipner
CYBERSTADT: E.C.H.O. and the Growth of Virtual Communities
Stuart Umpleby
Several Models of Communication and Control as Guides to Understanding
Cyberspace
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Global Brains and Communication in a Complex Adaptive World
Paulo Camargo Silva
A Logic for Networked Virtual Worlds
G.J. Marshall
Metaphors of Cyberspace
Cliff Joslyn
Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational Form for Cybernetics
Francis Heylighen, Stuart Umpleby and others
Panel Discussion: Past and Future of the Net
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Dr. Francis Heylighen, Systems Researcher fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6292525; Fax +32-2-6292489; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html