Giuseppe LONGO

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS (DR Emérite)
Centre Cavaillès (République des Savoirs), CNRS, Collège de France & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
e-mail: name(at)di(dot)ens(dot)fr

Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston

Member of the ACADEMIA EUROPAEA, the european Academy of Sciences.

Ancien responsable des équipes :
"Complexité et information morphologiques" (CIM),
"Langages, Types et Logique", Dépts. Mathématiques et Informatique, Ecole Normale Sup., Paris.

Responsable du projet, 2015 - 18: "Lois des dieux, des hommes et de la nature"(volume publié LoisDHN), à l'Institut d'Etudes Avancées, Nantes

Ancien Professeur "Associato" de Logique Mathématique, puis
"Ordinario" d'Informatique, Universita' di Pisa.

Photos officielles / Official Pictures

CV: html (short, in English),
cv.pdf (long)

Lien à l'association Girolamo Cardano.

BOOKS:

1 - G. Longo, M. Montévil, Perspectives on Organisms: Biological Time, Symmetries and Singularities, Springer, Berlin, 2014.
       - Foreword by D. Noble and Introduction (chapter 1).pdf

2 - F. Bailly, G. Longo, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. The Physical Singularity of Life, Imperial College Press, London, 2011.
   - Introduction.pdf; a review: EnglishPourLaSci.pdf
   - Preliminary version in French, Hermann, Paris, 2006, (avant-propoIndex.pdf).
   - Enregistrement audio de la présentation du livre, ENS, 20/11/2006.
   - Comptes rendus du livre par
        Jean Lassègue: texte complet, version courte.pdf, version pour La Science.pdf.
         Franck Varenne: dans Natures Sciences Sociétés, n. 16, 2008.

3 - A. Asperti, G. Longo. Categories, Types and Structures. Category Theory for the working computer scientist. M.I.T. Press, 1991
        (currently out of print and downloadable upon kind permission of the M.I.T. Press).     The entire book (.pdf, pp. 1 - 300)

Ongoing: Guest Editor: Special Issue "Perspectives on Big Data and Data Sciences": Call for Papers. Deadline 31 July 2019

New/Old: Four Letters by Georg Kreisel, 1982-84.

DOWNLOADABLE PAPERS / ARTICLES TELECHARGEABLES

"A Colloquium in Honor of Giuseppe Longo: From Type Theory to Morphological Complexity", Paris, June 28-29, 2007. Preface to the Proceedings, Paper, Pictures.

RECORDINGS: Teaching, lectures, seminars (English, français, italiano: audio, video)

INTERVIEWS / ENTRETIENS:
1 - France Culture : La place de la Toile, émission radiophonique du 12/3/10 : "Internet, logique et finance" (enregistrement audio).
2 - European Assoc. Theoretical Computer Science, February 2010 (revised for "Human Faces of Computing", World Sci., 2014): Interview by Cristian Calude.
3 - National Public Radios, U. S. A. : Science and Philosophy, posting of June 13, 2011 : "Are Financial And Scientific Views of the World Related?".
4 - Conseil National du Numérique, avril 2014: "Information digitale en biologie ? Conséquences d’une “philosophie” du numérique", (enregistrement vidéo, 25 minutes).
5 - Les entretiens du nouveau monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris : "De la mesure physique au dénombrement : les très grandes bases de données et les régularités sans sens" (enregistrement vidéo), 14 - 15 décembre, 2015.
6 - Interview: "Complexity, Information and Diversity, in Science and in Democracy", translated by M.R. Doyle and S. Savic, to appear in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 2020; preliminary version in French: " Complexité, science et démocratie", paru dans Glass Bead, le 23 novembre 2016; orginal en italien dans MEGA chip, democrazia nella comunicazione, periodico online, 10 maggio 2016 : "Intervista: Complessità, scienza e democrazia".
7 - Les entretiens du nouveau monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris : “La machine à états discrets et les images du monde” (enregistrement vidéo), 13 décembre, 2016.
8 - France Culture : La Méthode scientifique, émission radiophonique du 15/6/2017 : " Alan Turing : l'homme derrière la machine" (enregistrement 59min, cliquer sur la "flèche son" en haut à gauche).
9 - Theatre of the Hauss der Kulturen des Welt, Berlin, December 2, 2017 : "A discussion on randomness" (video, 28min).
10 - Radio2, Svizzera italiana: Attualità culturale, trasmissione del 24/04/2018: " Possibilità tecnologiche e democrazia" (audio 10min); continuazione nella settimana del 4/6/2018: cinque trasmissioni di 10 min.

EXPOSES INVITES / INVITED LECTURES: 1998 - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Some of these lectures are downloadable.

BOOK SERIES EDITOR:

1 - Nouvelles Visions des sciences, à partir de 2018, Spartacus IDH, précédemment Visions des sciences, Hermann, Paris, 2006 - 2017. (Enregistrement vidéo de la présentation de la collection et ses deux premiers livres, ENS, le 20 novembre 2006.)
2 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Springer, since 2011.

JOURNALS EDITOR:

1 - Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS),

Cambridge University Press (founder and editor - in - chief, 1990 - 2015; editor: 2016 - ...)

2 - Information and Computation, Academic Press
3 - European Review (the journal of Academia Europaea), Cambridge University Press
4 - Journal of Mind Theory, UPM
5 - Theoretical Informatics and Applications, EDP Sciences
6 - La Nuova Critica (Philosophy of Sciences), Roma
7 - JUCS, Springer electronic journal in Computer Science.
8 - Biology Forum (Gia' Rivista di Biologia, dal 1919), Roma.
9 - Philosophical inquiries (Philosophy of Sciences), Electronic Journal.
10 - Advances in Historical Studies (AHS) (History of Sciences), Electronic Journal.
11 - Biophysics (American Inst. Math. Sci.).
12 - Epistemologica (Mimesis, Milano).
13 - Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences (Univ. Sapienza, Roma).
14 - Computational Culture, a British journal of software studies.

SELECTED EDITED VOLUMES :

1 -

"The Difference between Concurrent and Sequential Computations'',

Special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, L. Aceto, G. Longo, B. Victor (Editors), Cambridge University Press, vol.13, n.4 and 5, 2003. (foreword.ps) (foreword.pdf)

2 - "New Programs and open problems in the Foundations of Mathematics", Special issue of The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, G. Longo and P. Scott (Editors), ASL, vol. 9, n. 2, June 2003. (introduction.pdf)

3 - "Géométrie et Cognition", G. Longo (Editeur), numéro spécial de la Revue de Synthèse, Editions de la rue d'Ulm

, tome 124, 2004.

(IndexIntroductionRdS.pdf)

4 - "Images and Reasoning", P. Grialou, G. Longo, M. Okada (Eds), Keio University Press, Tokio, 2005. (introduction.pdf)

5 - "Developments of the Concepts of Randomness, Statistic, and Probability'',

Special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, G. Longo, M. Mugur-Schachter (Editors), Cambridge University Press, vol.24, n.3, 2014. (Introduction.pdf)

6 - "From the century of the genome to the century of the organism: New theoretical approaches". A.M. Soto, G. Longo (Guest Editors), Special issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

, Volume 122, Issue 1, October 2016. (Downloadable preprints)

7 - "Lois des dieux, des hommes et de la nature

". G. Longo (Editeur), Actes d'un Colloque à l'Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes

Spartacus IDH

CONFERENCES PROGRAM COMMITTEES: since 1998.
Récents:

Colloque, 15-16 février 2017, IEA - Nantes :
Modèles mathématiques et prévisions : leurs usages et abus dans les sciences humaines et les sciences de la nature.
Réunion-débat de lancement de l'association Girolamo Cardano, 14 décembre, 2017.
Colloque Cardano, Transitions et crises : mathématiques, finance, écosystèmes, 28 mai, 2018.
Cardano at ETH, Zuerich: Symposium: The Science of Systems and Life, October 25 and October 26, 2018.
Rencontre Cardano, Croyances et risques dans la pratique des sciences, 21 octobre, 2019.

GROUPES DE TRAVAIL ET SEMINAIRES / WORKING GROUPS AND SEMINARS :

ACADEMIA EUROPAEA: the european Academy of Sciences (member, nominated in 1992), Informatics Section.
G. Longo. Science, Problem Solving and Bibliometrics. Key Note Invited Lecture, Academia Europaea Conference on "Use and Abuse of Bibliometrics", Stockholm, May 2013. Proceedings, Wim Blockmans et al. (eds), Portland Press, 2014. (Science&Bibliometrics9-13.pdf)

Bibliometrics and the Curators of Orthodoxy, a note by GL, then Editor in Chief, signed by all editors, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Cambridge U. Press, 2009.

Au sujet de la bibliométrie, Ens, 2008.

E-mail: name (at) di.ens.fr

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