[Air-L] Jack Copeland wins the 2016 Covey Award presented by IACAP

[Mariarosaria Taddeo]

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Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that Professor Jack Copeland is the receiver of the 2016 Covey Award. 

The award is presented each year by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://www.iacap.org/awards/ <http://www.iacap.org/awards/> ) in recognition of the work of senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived.

As many of you may already know Professor Copeland FRS NZ is Distinguished Professor in Arts at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. He is also Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia, and in 2012 was Royden B. Davis Visiting Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington DC. In 2013-14 he was Visiting Professor of Information Science at Copenhagen University. He co-directs the Turing Centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich.  His books include The Essential Turing (Oxford University Press), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers (Oxford University Press), Alan Turing’s Electronic Brain (Oxford University Press), Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (MIT Press), Logic and Reality (Oxford University Press), and Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell). He has published more than 100 journal articles on the philosophy and history of computing, and on mathematical and philosophical logic. Oxford University Press published his highly accessible paperback biography Turing in October last year. He is currently co-authoring a book on the philosophy and cognitive science of religion, to be published by Blackwell-Wiley in the US and UK in 2016, and his co-authored The Turing Guide will appear with Oxford University Press in 2016. 


Professor Copeland will be presented with the award during IACAP’16, where he will give the Covey Award Lecture. 

Let me also take this opportunity to remind you that we are now accepting submissions for IACAP’2016, which we will host at the University of Ferrara (Italy) on June 14-17, 2016. The call for papers and the relevant information about the conference can be found on IACAP website http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2016/ <http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2016/>.


With kind regards,
Mariarosaria Taddeo
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Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy
Associate Editor for Ethics, Policy & Technology - Philosophy & Technology, Springer
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