Doc., Ing. Ivan M. Havel Ph.D.
Ivan M. Havel graduated in 1966 from Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. During 1969-71 he attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science. For several years he worked as a research scientist with the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. His fields of interest are theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, and related philosophical issues. Before the communist regime collapsed in late 1989, besides his semiofficial scientific work, he hosted discussion groups in his apartment in Prague and cooperated with samizdat editions. From November 1989 till June 1990 he was engaged in political work (as a member of the Council of the Civic Forum Coordination Center).
Presently he is a docent (associate professor) at Charles University, the Center for Theoretical Study, an international cross-disciplinary institution affiliated with Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, where he was a director until march 2008. He also has teaching responsibilities at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Since 1990 he is the editor-in-chief of Czechoslovak scientific journal Vesmír (The Universe). He is a member of Academia Europea and serves on boards of several academic institutions and educational foundations.
Selected bibliography:
Havel, Ivan M. (2013): On the Way to Intelligence Singularity
In: Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, str. 3 - 26, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34422-0
Havel, Ivan M.; Mitášová, Monika (2012): Přirozené a umělé
In: (J. Kelemen, P. Nahodil, eds.) Kognice a umelý život XII, České vysoké učení technické v Praze 2012, s. 73–77 [ISBN 978-80-86742-34-2, poč. stran 270] [detail]
Havel, Ivan M. (2011): Cestou k inteligenční singularitě
In: Hlavou zeď 2011. Úvahy nad civilizací a její budoucností., Praha, dybbuk, str. 183 - 217 [detail]
Havel, Ivan M. (2011): Seeing Numbers
In: The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 (Edited by Mircea Pitici), Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011 [detail]
Havel, Ivan M. (2010): Epizodické situace našeho života
In: Spor o přirozený svět (B. Velický, K. Trlifajová, P. Kouba, eds.), Filosofia, Praha, s. 213–238.
Ajvaz, Michal; Havel, Ivan M. (2010): Sindibádův dům
Pavel Mervart, 288 stran, ISBN 978-80-87378-32-8 [detail]
Havel, Ivan M. (2009): Seeing Numbers
In: Witnessed Years: Essays in Honour of Petr Hájek, (P. Cintula, Z. Haniková, V. Švejdar, eds.), Colledge Publications, London, pp. 71–86
Havel, Ivan M. (2008): Sixty years of cybernetics: Cybernetics still alive
Kybernetika 44, No 3, pp. 314-327
Ajvaz, Michal; Havel, Ivan M. (2008): Snování
Pavel Mervart, ISBN: 978-80-86818-71-9, 208 stran [detail]
Havel, Ivan M. (2007): Po nás podoba (Esej o umělých lidech)
In: Umělá inteligence V. (V. Mařík a kol., eds.), Academia, Praha, s. 29–42.
Havel, Ivan M. (2007): Prožívání epizodických situací
In: Myseľ, inteligencia a život (V. Kvasnička, P. Trebatický, J. Pospíchal a J. Kelemen, eds.), Vydavateľstvo STU, Bratislava, s. 27-70.
Havel, Ivan M.; Mitášová, Monika (2006): Zjednávání struktur
In: Svět jako struktura, struktura jako obraz, str. 15-33, FHS UK, Praha, ISBN 80-239-8518-3
Ajvaz, Michal; Havel, Ivan M.; Mitášová, Monika (2004): Prostor a jeho člověk
Vesmír, Praha, ISBN 80-85977-60-5 [detail]
Havel, Ivan M.; Mitášová, Monika (2004): Prostor prožívaný jako prostor k jednání
In: Prostor a jeho člověk, str. 153-220, Vesmír, Praha, ISBN 80-85977-60-5