Kristo Ivanov: INFORMATION, INTEGRITY, AND UNIVERSITY POLITICS (Main documentation at http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/SemPUL.html and http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/RandomErrUnivPol.html)

This seminar summarizes and completes my two earlier seminars this spring on March 13 and April 17 as specified with bibliography at

http://www.informatik.umu.se/seminarier/2002/

concerning the systems approach to technology and the issue of privacy or personal integrity in the light of the Swedish Personal Data Act. The seminar is also a bridge to two planned seminars this autumn on September 18 and 22 concerning the two parts of my "professorial testament" that summarizes my 30 years of research and management in the field of informatics, as preliminarily stated in "Dialectical systems design and beyond" at http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/PerspSem2000.html.

This seminar will capitalize upon the fact that the discipline of informatics i based on what is to be understood as "information", in its relation to perception, data, intuition, reality (and virtuality), and knowledge. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of error and margin of error. This will be related to a couple of articles expected to be published in the coming June issue of the university personnel journal AKTUM No. 5/2002 and in the journal Universitetsläraren No. 10/2002, both articles being based on the text "Scientific method and university politics", found at

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/RandomErrUnivPol.html

and dealing with affirmative action in the evaluation and ranking of academic university personnel.

The seminar will be held in Swedish unless there are guest participants who only understand English.

Välkomna!
Mikael Wiberg