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BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Association Summit, the annual meeting of international associations, came to a successful end on Thursday 2 June at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels. BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Association Summit, the annual meeting of international associations, came to a successful end on Thursday 2 June at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels. With 20 percent more participants than in the previous year, some famous speakers and great collective enthusiasm, the fourth summit lived up to its expectations. The EAS is a non-profit initiative aimed at creating a platform for the exchange of information between professionals in the associations’ sector. Once again, the EAS was received with great enthusiasm. ....
Homo informaticus Luc de Brabandere lets us sail with him along the two great rivers of thought that have flowed down the centuries from ancient philosophy into modern computer science, from Plato and Aristotle to Alan Turing and Claude Shannon. The history of computer science did not begin eighty years ago with the creation of the first electronic computer. To program a computer to process information – or in other words, to simulate thought – we need to be able to understand, dismantle and disassemble thoughts. In IT-speak, in order to encrypt a thought, we must first be able to decrypt it! And this willingness to analyse thought already existed in ancient times. So the principles, laws, and concepts that underlie computer science today originated in an era when the principles of mathematics and logic each started on their own paths, around their respective iconic thinkers, such as Plato and Aristotle. Indeed, the history of computer science could be described as ful ....