FUNDP (University of Namur)

Faculty Member, Computer Science Department

professor - director of laboratory - director of research

About

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http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/

Doctor of Philosophy (1993  ) . He has authored numerous articles on artificial life, self-organization, thermodynamics, the complexity, biotechnology, genomics and also the connection between science, techniques, education and culture. He authored books about the autoorganisation concept and about the ethics of technology. He has addressed the epistemological and ethical problems of this new scientific field which is named genomic and of GMO. He has organized many international seminars and symposia, and has conduct international projects. He has taken part in a European biotechnology research program entitled "The Industrial Use of Genome Resources in Europe". In 1997, he was responsible for coordinating a project concerning ethics in engineering, (context: SOCRATES program). In 2004 , he was qualified as "Maître de Conférences" and Professor in Epistemology and History of Science and in 2004 he obtained the Habilitation à diriger des recherché (Paris VII) under the direction of Professor Claude Debru (ENS - Paris).


He direct various international conferences concerning governance ethics and tics and edited international books concerning the relation between governance ethics rationality and tics. He is member of the WG 9.2 and of the SIG 9.2.2 of IFIP association (The International Federation for Information Processing). He was partner in the Miauce European project (Multi-modal interactions analysis and exploration of users within a controlled environment). He was responsible in this project of the ethical requirements necessary to design new technical systems (http://www.miauce.org/).


He is actually  partner in two European projects the Etica project (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications : http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/index.jsp?page=10520) and the EGAIS project (The Ethical GovernAnce of emergIng technologieS - New Governance Perspectives for Integrating Ethics into Technical Development Projects and Applications(http://www.egais-project.eu/?q=node/4).


He codirected the IG3T international  project (Internet Governance: Transparency, Trust and Tools).


His research fields concerned the history and philosophy of science (biotechnology and Technologies of information and communication) the epistemology and ethics of computing technologies, the governance theories (relation between rationality, reflexivity, ethics and governance), the internet governance issues.



He is member of the reviewing panel of the international "Journal of information communication and ethics in society" (JICES)


He was member of the program committee of the international colloquium ETHICOMP 2010 (Universitat Rovira y Virgili, Tarragona, Spain from Wednesday 14 April to Friday 16 April 2010.



He has co chair EDAmI wxorkshop at Sunday 19.7.2009, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in conjunction with IE09, 5th international conference on Intelligent environment, July 20-21, 2009.

part of the scientific committee of the IFIP tc9 meeting in Brisbane Australia

He is responsible of ethical training for and  at the european Commission

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