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Increased computer capabilities have made possible a new approach to quantitative decision making and policy analysis that ...   more »

I will be attending presentations at this Symposium with an intriguing title: The Computer Symposium: The Once and Future Medium for the social sciences and the humanities. 

The stated rationale for the conference being: 

"Due to innovations realized over the past 10 to 15 years, the computer has dramatically changed the things that scholars do, and widened the scope of the things that researchers potentially can do. Heightened processing power, new categories of software, and, indeed, novel conceptions of computing are offering scholars opportunities to analyze, express and instruct in ways unimaginable even in the early 1990s. Consider the following:

Source: http://www.brocku.ca/computingsymposium/welcome.html

Of particular interest is the presentation of Robert Lempert of the RAND Corporation: "Embracing Multiple Views of the Future: New Computational Tools for Longer-Term Policy Analysis." . More on this in a subsequent entry.

I will be attending presentations at this Symposium with an intriguing title: The Computer Symposium: The Once and Future Medium for the social sciences and the humanities. 

The stated rationale for the conference being: 

"Due to innovations realized over the past 10 to 15 years, the computer has dramatically changed the things that scholars do, and widened the scope of the things that researchers potentially can do. Heightened processing power, new categories of software, and, indeed, novel conceptions of computing are offering scholars opportunities to analyze, express and instruct in ways unimaginable even in the early 1990s. Consider the following:

Source: http://www.brocku.ca/computingsymposium/welcome.html

Of particular interest is the presentation of Robert Lempert of the RAND Corporation: "Embracing Multiple Views of the Future: New Computational Tools for Longer-Term Policy Analysis." . More on this in a subsequent entry.

I have been invited by York University and the organizing committee of the Congress to attend and "blog" this event that is taking place at York University from May 27 - June 3.  The conference is vast. I'll be attending sessions relating to innovation technology and the media.

At the beginning of the event I walked into the media room and was greeted by: "Oh you are that Blogging Guy!" 

It is great to to be one of the only bloggers given media accreditation at this event.

See an overview of the conference at: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2006/programs/ataglance.htm

Follow the coverage under the Congress tab of this blog.

Through the good graces of AirYork2.0, York's wireless some of the blogs entries will be live.