On the occasion of Karl Javorszky’s death, the International Academy of Information Studies held its new IAIS Dialogue as a memorial service:

Speakers:

Louis H. Kauffman, 
Emeritus Professor Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago. https://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/

Katherine Peil Kauffman
EFS International and Institute for Systems Biology
Affiliated of Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity School. https://www.emotionalsentience.com/

The session will take place on Tuesday, December 9th,at:17:30 (CET) | 11:30 AM (EST) | 00:30 AM (Thurs.Beijing)
In the MEET link:   https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1

The Dialogue format: each of the speakers will have 20 min. presentation, followed by 15 min. mutual debate, and 30 min. Q&A from the audience. 
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Plamen Simeonov.

The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES

© International Academy of Information Studies: https://sites.google.com/view/iais-info/home

Pedro C. Marijuan commemorates:

Last 24 October Karl Javorszky passed away. He was a member of the Editorial Board of this journal, Philosophies, since its beginning. He was well known for his original contributions on a new number theory and the way living beings “account” their functioning –he was also a very dear acquaintance of mine. His academic credential was Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) by Wien University and during many years he worked as consulting psychologist, diagnostician (contracted with Austrian Social Security) and statistician. Other professional activities of him were also related to statistics (Social Marketing, Data modeling, Data processing design and development, Information security) in several Austrian companies & institutions. In other words, he developed an intense work experience outside Academia focused on statistics and the different measurements of the qualitative. 

He came to visit me in Zaragoza as early as in 1994. He had sent me a long letter with an interesting manuscript, basically dealing with “multidimensional partitions” as a potential tool for the study of information transmission in living cells and mammalian brains. In that time the topic was quite hot in my own research, and I could invite him to deliver a Seminar at the University of Zaragoza about his new approach to biology via his original number theory. He soon produced a dense manuscript on the topics of his visit (“Zaragoza Lectures”). Afterwards we cooperated a couple of years within a small group (with computer scientist Jose Pastor & biologist Morris Villarroel) in the development of his multidimensional partitions stuff–a fascinating topic which unfortunately we could not continue as a group and has mostly remained out from my own focus.

The idea that “distinctions” in a set of N elements are limited, either regarding one single property or a plurality of them, and that they can be rigorously expressed via either unidimensional partitions or multidimensional partitions, is a mind boggling issue full of formal consequences and potential applications. We worked out a few of them –Morris and José did a terrific work, partially published. Karl went on to develop the contrast between the accounting based on the sequential versus the simultaneous, the melody versus the accord –which he referred to as the Sumerian versus the Akkadian ways of counting, N! versus N?. This can be found in quite a few of the messages he posted in the FIS discussion list (Foundations of Information Science, at https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/ ) where he preferentially presented his further elaborations on the relationship between the accounting systems N! and N? as a genuine foundation of Nature accounting processes. During almost 30 years veteran FISers enjoyed his curious writing style, with plenty of metaphors and colorful references, always eloquently presented in a friendly and perhaps rather insisting way. But Karl was always a charming man, discrete, polite and somehow elusive and shy –except concerning his loved Sumerian / Akkadian counting systems and the way Nature computes her cyclicity. He will forgive me that from time to time I ventured to discuss him that enigmatic N? Apart of the many messages published in FIS list archives, there is a collection of Karl’s more formal papers at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karl-Javorszky
And also at Google Scholar, https://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=es&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=karl+javorszky&btnG=

ORCID as well is a valuable source to follow his whole professional activities and publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-2682