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"Computing versus Human Thinking" by Peter Naur, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

Time: Friday November 3, 2006, 14:30 to 15:30

Place: IT Huset, Store Auditorium

The lecture will be an overview of the author's contributions to the theme "Computing versus human thinking" from a period of 50 year. These contributions concern: description as the core issue of science and scholarship; programming language, computer and computer program description; forms of description of human mental life; the defect of philosophical notions of knowledge as forms of mental representation; in relation to the human/computer interface, the rejection of the classical psychological description of mental life.

The most recent contribution is the synapse-state theory: a description of mental life in terms of a network of neurons, synapses, and nodes in which the neurons meet. The central issue of the theory is the embodiment of habits in the plastic states of the sunapses, each state determining the way that synapse transmits neural excitations.

Medierne fremhæves i de fleste stakeholder-modeller som en af virksomhedens vigtigste interessenter. Tidligere forskning om forholdet mellem virksomhed og medier var primært afsætningsøkonomisk orienteret på den ene side eller kritisk forskning, der fokuserede på negative hændelser i erhvervslivet og medie­skandaler på den anden. Hvordan forholdet mellem virksomheder og medier i hverdagspraksisser organiseres, når der produceres erhvervs­journalistik, har derimod haft begrænset interesse.

Med afsæt i ny forskning om virksomhedens kommunikation gennem medierne giver denne forelæsning et overblik over erhvervsjournalistikkens udvikling med særlig henblik på erhvervsjournalistikkens politisering, samt virksom­heders strategiske kommunikation og mediernes dækning af virksomhedens sociale ansvar.

Simon Burton
Associate Professor of Sociology
School of Sociology and Social Studies
University of KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa

This paper seeks to identify, outline and appraise 'com­muni­cation and development' activities, actors and interests as they have emerged over the first twelve years of democracy. Interesting in and of themselves, they also cast an image of the democracy itself, and point to further developments.