Computer Theology
Bertrand du Castel
Schlumberger Fellow

Some 50,000 years ago, humans learned to associate and build ever larger congregations, concomitant with the emergence of art and religion. Much more recently, computers learned to communicate universally and have also started building larger and larger aggregates. After an invitation from the society for Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2000, Bertrand du Castel wrote with Timothy M. Jurgensen Computer Theology (2008, Midori Press). He will present their parallel between human and computer societies that reverberates understanding their constitutional principles of trust and policy.

Bertrand du Castel is a Schlumberger Fellow, and co-Chairman of the W3C Oil & Gas Semantic Web initiative. A former Chairman of the Java Card Forum Technical Committee and vice-Chairman of POSC (now Synergistics), he received in 2005 the Visionary Award from Card Technology magazine for his role in bringing the Java Card from inception to billions. With publications in artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, and software engineering, Bertrand has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris and an Engineer Diploma from Ecole Polytechnique, France. He is based in Austin, Texas.