More Journal Ranking Information

By Brandon Towl Here’s something I found that may be of interest for “Brains”– a follow up, if you will, to Gualtiero’s post on European journal rankings. The site I found is called journalrankings.com: www.journal-ranking.com/ranking/web/index.html This site covers only science and science related journals, but it does have a sub-category …

Connectionist Computation

Next August, I’m presenting a paper entitled “Connectionist Computation” at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.  The paper, which will be published in the conference proceedings, is an account of why (some) connectionist systems perform computations even though they don’t execute programs.(Background: In 2005, Martin Roth published a paper …

Peter Smith on “Church’s Thesis After 70 Years”

Church’s Thesis After 70 Years is a very expensive collection of new papers on the Church-Turing thesis.  It was published by Ontos Verelag a few months ago.  It is edited by Adam Olszewski and Jan Wolenski.An Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems is a fairly affordable, sophisticated introduction and discussion of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems and related topics, including the …

Two Questions About the Origins of Connectionism

The connectionism that most people know about become popular in the 1980s.  It is defined, more or less, as the attempt to explain or model cognitive functions using artificial neural networks.  The name “connectionism” for this movement goes back at least to a 1982 article by Feldman and Ballard (“Connectionist Models …

‘Pancomputationalism’: Origins of a Neologism

I just discovered that the view that everything in the universe is a computing system is “now often called” ‘pancomputationalism’, as Vincent Mueller puts it.  Mueller is right.  As of today, Googling ‘pancomputationalism’ generates 195 results, beginning with the omnipresent wikipedia article (titled “digital physics”).  I had no idea; for all I knew, I …

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