The Association Computability in Europe (ACiE) is an international organization of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, theoretical physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and in their underlying significance for the real world. ACiE aims to widen understanding and appreciation of the importance of the concepts and techniques of computability theory, and to support the development of a multi-disciplinary community of researchers focused on computability-related topics. The ACiE positions itself at the interface between applied and fundamental research, prioritising mathematical approaches to computational barriers.
ACiE originated as a research network called Computability in Europe (CiE) in 2003, became a conference series in 2005, and the ACiE was formed in 2008.
Association ACiE was founded in Athens, Greece in 2008. Its founding president (2008 to 2015) was S. Barry Cooper; its current president is Elvira Mayordomo and its current secretary general is Giuseppe Primiero. The association is promoting the development, particularly in Europe, of computability-related science, ranging over mathematics, computer science, and applications in various natural and engineering sciences such as physics and biology. This also includes the promotion of the study of philosophy and history of computing as it relates to questions of computability. ACiE is an international member of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPST/IUHPST).
Past and Present Presidents NameTerm of office 1st President S. Barry Cooper 2008–2015 2nd President Dag Normann 2015–2016 3rd President Paola Bonizzoni 2016–2020 4th President Elvira Mayordomo 2020–2026
Members of the Association Council + Council of the Association of Computability in Europe Name Role Term of office Marcella Anselmo Treasurer, Council Member 2021 – 2027 Arnold Beckmann Council Member 2017 – 2025 Paola Bonizzoni Council Member 2020 – 2028 Merlin Carl Council Member 2018 – 2026 Liesbeth De Mol Member-at-Large EC, Council Member 2017 – 2025 Gianluca Della Vedova Council Member 2018 – 2026 Johanna Franklin Council Member 2019 – 2027 Ekaterina Fokina Council Member 2022 – 2026 Lorenzo Galeotti Council Member 2020 – 2024 Daniel Graça Council Member 2017 – 2025 Jarkko Kari Council Member 2018 – 2026 Sandra Kiefer Council Member 2022 – 2026 Benedikt Löwe Council Member 2017 – 2025 Janos Makowsky Council Member 2016 – 2024 Florin Manea Chair of the CS Steering Committee, Council Member 2016 – 2024 Barnaby Martin Secretary General, Council Member, Past Member-at-Large EC 2017 – 2025 Elvira Mayordomo President 2018 – 2026 Dag Normann Council Member, Past President and Treasurer 2016 – 2024 Arno Pauly Member-at-Large, Council Member 2019 – 2027 Olga Petrovska Membership Secretary, Council Member 2023 – 2027 Giuseppe Primiero Council Member, Past Secretary General 2016 – 2024 Paul Shafer Council Member 2023 – 2027 Mariya Soskova Council Member, Member-at-Large EC 2017 – 2025 Martin Ziegler Council Member 2016 – 2024
Former members of the Council of the Association are: Alison Pease and Olivier Bournez (Past Membership Secretary).
Special Interest Groups The Association has three Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Women in Computability (WiC), Transfinite Computations (TraC), and History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC). SIGWiC has been organising the workshop Women in Computability at the CiE conferences since 2007; HaPoC also organizes two separate conference series: History and Philosophy of Computing and History and Philosophy of Programming.
S. Barry Cooper Prize In memory of the visionary engagement of its founding president, the association established the S. Barry Cooper Prize honouring a researcher who has contributed to a broad understanding and foundational study of computability by outstanding results, by seminal and lasting theory building, by exceptional service to the research communities involved, or by a combination of these. The inaugural S. Barry Cooper Prize was awarded in 2020 to Bruno Courcelle.
Conference series The association grew out of the major international conference series Computability in Europe (CiE); the first CiE conference was held in Amsterdam in June 2005. CiE is an interdisciplinary annual conference series promoting the development of computability-related science, ranging over mathematics, computer science, and applications in various natural and engineering sciences such as physics and biology. The conference scope also includes the study of philosophy and history of computing as it relates to questions of computability.
CiE 2005: New Computational Paradigms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands CiE 2006: Logical approaches to computational barriers, Swansea, Wales CiE 2007: Computation and Logic in the Real World, Siena, Italy CiE 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms, Athens, Greece CiE 2009: Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice, Heidelberg, Germany CiE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal CiE 2011: Models of Computation in Context, Sofia, Bulgaria CiE 2012: How the World Computes, Cambridge, England CiE 2013: The Nature of Computation: Logic, Algorithms, Applications, Milan, Italy CiE 2014: Language, Life, Limits, Budapest, Hungary CiE 2015: Evolving Computability, Bucharest, Romania CiE 2016: Pursuit of the Universal, Paris, France CiE 2017: Unveiling Dynamics and Complexity, Turku, Finland CiE 2018: Sailing Routes in the World of Computation, Kiel, Germany CiE 2019: Computing with Foresight and Industry , Durham, England. CiE 2020: Beyond the Horizon of Computability, Salerno, Italy (held as a fully online conference). CiE 2021: Connecting with Computability, Gent, Belgium (online). CiE 2022: Revolutions and Revelations in Computability, Swansea, Wales. CiE 2023: Unity of Logic and Computation, Batumi, Georgia.
The current chair of the Steering Committee of the conference series is Florin Manea; his predecessors were Benedikt Löwe (2005–2013) and Arnold Beckmann (2013–2016).
Book series and journal ACiE has editorial responsibility for the Springer book series Theory and Applications of Computability and the journal Computability published by IOS Press.
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