Some Publications

Note: Most papers are in Microsoft-Word format.
If you would like them in plain text, pdf, postscript or even on paper, please email me.

• currently (not) working on "Nifty Assignments-Hangman", "On Computation & Numbers", "Can we measure Information?",  "Revisited: Anonymity on the Internet", "Information Quality in Distributed Collaborative Systems", "eJournal", RoboObjects, Web2.0", "Programming skill acquisition", "Art for Money's Sake", "Privacy Issues", ...
  
• Explaining Everything, David Davenport, in Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence, V. C. Müller (Ed.), Volume 376 of the series Synthese Library, Berlin: Springer, pp 339-352, (June 2016). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26485-1_20. An earlier version of this paper was presented at PT-AI 2013, Oxford, U.K. (draft version)
• Moral Mechanisms, David Davenport, Philosophy & Technology: Volume 27, Issue 1 (2014), Page 47-60 doi:10.1007/s13347-013-0147-2.  Originally presented at AISB/IA-CAP World Congress, Birmingham, 2012. (draft version)
• The Two (Computational) Faces of AI, David Davenport, in "Theory and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence" Vincent C. Müller (ed.),  SAPERE; Berlin: Springer, pp.43-58 (2012). (draft version & slides from PT-AI 2011 talk.)
• Computationalism: Still the Only Game in Town, David Davenport, "Minds & Machines", Springer, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s11023-012-9271-5.
• Towards a Quality Service Layer for Web 2.0, M. Schaal, D. Davenport, & A.H. Cevik, in D.K.W. Chiu et al. (eds.), WISE 2010 Workshops, LNCS 6724, pp. 309--317. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
• The Impact of Maintainability Defects on Code Inspections, O. Albayrak & D. Davenport, in Proceedings of  ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy 2010. doi:10.1145/1852786.1852850.
• What Makes Us Get Out of Bed?, David Davenport, presented at the Second International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, Ankara, Turkey, May 20-21, (2010).
• Revisited: A Computational Account of the Notion of Truth, David Davenport, in Jordi Vallverdu (ed.): ecap09, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Philosophy and Computing (2009), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, pp. 148.
• The Social Derivation of Technical Systems, David Davenport, invited book chapter in "The Handbook of Research in Socio-technical Design and Social Networking Systems", Whitworth B. and de Moor, A. (eds.), IGI-Global, 2009. pp50-64. This chapter appears in "The Handbook of Research in Socio-technical Design and Social Networking Systems", edited by  Brian Whitworth and Aldo de Moor, Copyright 2008, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com. Posted by permission of the publisher.
• An Investigation of Factors Related to Self-Efficacy for Java Programming Among Engineering Students, Petek AŞKAR David Davenport, TOJET Vol.8, No.1, January 2009. [Local copy]
• Towards Automated Quality Assurance for Socially Created Information Assets on the Web, David Davenport & Markus Schaal, Proceedings INET-TR'07, Aug 2007. [presentation slides]
• Ethical Controversies in Cyberspace, David Davenport, METU Ethics Group workshop, 2005.
• SYMBOLS, SIGNS & LINKS? Distinguishing the Symbolic & Connectionist Paradigms, David Davenport, Bilkent ACM SIGART seminar, 2005.
• Free Copyright! Refundable Donations, David Davenport, 2005 (completely new version sent to CACM, who have not responded--presumed lost again! Note: The basic idea has been independently implemented in TipTheWeb.org).
• “Individuals Should Not Be Allowed to Communicate Anonymously Via the Internet”, David Davenport, (renamed version of “Anonymity on the Internet: Why the Price may be too High”) reprinted in Current Controversies - Civil Liberties, edited by James Torr, published by Thomson Gale, December 2002, ISBN: 0-7377-1465-4 (see book info.)
• “Anonymity on the Internet: Why the Price may be too High”, David Davenport, reprinted in Computers in Society, by Joey F. George, published by Prentice Hall, July 2003, ISBN: 0-13-140660-4 (see book info. )
• Informal Learning in a Virtual Community: TYWC, David Davenport, in the Proceedings of "New Horizons in Educational Communication and Technology" AOF20 - First International Open & Distance Education Symposium, Eskisehir, May 2002. [presentation slides]
• Free Copyright, David Davenport, (accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM, 2003, but never actually published!)
• Braces Considered Harmful, David Davenport, 2002 (unpublished response to a CACM article.)
• Anonymity on the Internet: Why the Price may be too High, David Davenport, Communications of the ACM, Vol.45, Issue 4, (April 2002)  © ACM, 2002. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Communications of ACM, {VOL45, ISS4, (April 2002)} http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/505248.505267
• Future Learning - Is IT Friend or Foe? (or Listen to the Kids), David Davenport & Derya Davenport, in the proceedings of BTIE 2001, METU Ankara, May 3-5 2001. [presentation slides]
• Software Piracy Is Not Just Economics Anymore, a response to "Global Software Piracy: You can't get blood out of a Turnip," David Davenport, published in Communications of ACM, Dec. 2000 [local copy].
• Credit Card Fraud and E-Commerce, David Davenport, Oct.2000. {working paper}
• Özgürlüklerin Bedeli, David Davenport & David Grunberg, in the proceedings of "Bilisim Toplumuna Giderken Psikoloji, Sosyoloji ve Hukuk'ta Etkiler Sempozyumu'2001," 23-24 Mart, Ankara. [presentation slides-in english]
• Zero to Java in Internet Time, David Davenport, in the proceedings of "Java and the Internet in the Computing Conference-5," Jan.22nd 2001, South Bank University, London. [presentation slides]
• From Mind to Brain Machine: The Architecture of Cognition, David Davenport, in proceedings of "Brain Machine 2000," METU Ankara, Dec. 20-22nd 2000. [presentation slides]
• The Price of Freedoms, David Davenport, May 2000. Presented at "The Humanities at the Dawn of the 3rd Millenium" a joint Binghampton NY & METU conference, Ankara May 2000. [presentation slides]
• Experience using a project-based approach in an Introductory Programming Course, David Davenport, IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol.43, No.4, pp 443-454, Nov.2000. An early, 1997, version available [here].
• Computationalism: The Very Idea, David Davenport, in Proc. of New Trends in Cognitive Science'99, Vienna, Austria, May 1999. The paper is [here] and a streaming media version of my presentation is [here, using Windows Media Player] and [here, using Real Media Player {note, currently has ~20sec delays between slides!}], May 17-20, 1999. [presentation slides] Also, published on MIT's COGNET and in Conceptus Studien 14, Fall 2000.
• The Reality of Logic, David Davenport, PowerPoint slides from my METU-Bilkent Logic Colloquia series presentation [here], Jan. 27th 1999.
• Virtually There: The Internet in Support of Learning, David Davenport & Emek Erarslan, in Proc. Second Turkish International Symposium on Distance Education, Ankara, Turkey, May 4-8, 1998 [here]. Also available in Turkish [here] and as streaming media [here].
• PAL: A Constructivist Model of Cognitive Activity, Armagan Yavuz & David Davenport, Proc. Int.Conf. on New Trends in Cognitive Science: Does Representation Need Reality?, Alexaander Riegler & Markus Peschl (Eds.), Vienna, Austria, May 14-16, 1997 [here]
• Towards a Computational Account of the Notion of Truth, David Davenport, Proc. TAINN'97. [here].
• Book Review, Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective by William Hersh, in SIGIR Forum, Fall 1996.
• WIZ - Intelligent Dynamic Web-Based Hypermedia, Ozan Ozhan and David Davenport, Proc. of the First International Symposium on Distance Education, Ankara, Nov. 1996. [here]
• On Computation and its Relation to Cognition Proc. of the Eleventh International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, Nov. 1996. [here]
• Minds and Computers: A Land of Confusion Available for comments [here]
• Liberating the 'System', Computers, Education and the Devloping Country, Proc. World conf. on Computers in Education, Birmingham 1995 [here]
• Mechanical Minds, David Davenport, in Proc. 4th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neural Networks, Tubitak, Gebze, Turkey, June 26-28th 1995, (ed.) Guvenir H.A., Oflazer K., Akman V. & Kocabas S. ISBN 975-7679-09-7
• From Brain to Mind: What Clues from the Natural World can tell us Proceedings of Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Life: Hints from Life to AI, (ed.) Ugur Halici, Middle East Tech. Univ., 15th Dec. 1994 [here]
• Symbols, Signs and Cognition, Proceedings of the 3rd. Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network Symposium, Bozsahin C., Halici H., Oflazer K. and Yalabik N. (eds.) METU Ankara Turkey, 22-24 June, 1994, ISBN 975-7679-07-0
• Inscriptors: Knowledge Representation for Cognition, Proceedings of ISCIS-8, (eds) L.Gun, R.Onvural & E.Gelenbe, Istanbul Nov. 1-3, 1993
• Intelligent Systems: the weakest link?, NATO ARW on "Intelligent Systems: Safety, Reliability and Maintainability Issues", Kusadasi 1992; (eds) O. Kaynak, G.Honderd, E. Grant, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1993 [here]
• KNOWALL! An Experimental Inscriptor-Based Expert System Shell, David Davenport, Mehmet Sen, Ahmet Erturk, Proceedings of 1. Turk Yapay Zeka ve Yapay Sinir Aglar Sempozyumu, 25-26 July 1992, Bilkent University, Ankara. (eds.) K. Oflazer, V. Akman, A. Guvenir, U. Halici. p227-234.
• Towards a new generation of Expert Systems, David Davenport, in Computers & Information Sciences VI Vol 2, (ed) Baray & Ozguc, p651-659, Elsevier Science Pub. 1991 {ISBN 0-444-89067-X}
• An Extended User Interface for CAL Systems, published in "Computers and Education : An International Journal", Vol14, No4 p335-342, 1990, Pergamon Press, Oxford, England.
• ROBO : A Programming System for Teaching Introductory Software Engineering Concepts, D. Davenport, Proceedings of The Fifth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Vol 2, (ed) Harmanci & Gelenbe, p953-962, Cappadocia, Turkey. 30 Oct.- 1 Nov. 1990
• Hyper-CAI, D.Davenport, Proceedings of Education and Application of Computer Technology, (ed) M.de Blasi et al, p377-388, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 10-14. 1990.
• TutoR : An Experiment in CAL, D. Davenport, A. Guvenir & F. Buyukkokten, Proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey. 30 Oct.- 1 Nov. 1989
• Knowledge Base Concepts for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, D. Davenport & A. Guvenir, in "Computer and Information Sciences - 3" E. Gelenbe, E. Orhun, and E. Basar Eds., Nova Science Publishers Inc., August 1989.
• Bilgisayar Destekli Egitimde Yapay Zeki, D. Davenport, A. Guvenir & V. Isler, Proceedings of Sympozyum 88, Orta Ogretimde Bilgisayar Destekli Fen Ogretimi, ODTU 16-17 Haziran 1988

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