Manchenwiler Workshop on Information Theories

On the 17th and the 18th of May I had the great pleasure to participate to the international workshop organised by Giovanni Sommaruga & Jarg Kohlas of the Theoretical Computer Science Research Group of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was what a "meeting of true minds" should be: interesting, stimulating, informative, challenging, well-organised, friendly and culturally attractive. The place choosen was the beautiful Schloss Manchenwiler.

All papers (you can read the presentations by clicking on the title of this blog) were of high quality and most interesting if, sometime, a bit difficult. Personally, the talks on information algebras would already have been worth the trip, and there was all the rest in the menu! It was great. I recommend at least a brief look at the work done on the topic by Kohlas' research group to anyone interested in information theory and in the philosophy of information. And I look forward to a philosopher-friendly version of it that they said they are working on. Until then, you may click here for a nice presentation.

Sometime it makes a lot of sense to travel and talk to each others.

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