Our Institute is starting a joint research programme together with the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. Both sides signed an agreement and are set to support the following research activities in the…
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Sophie Huber-Lachner‘s trailer of her documentary on alternative ways of education is out. The working title “A und O” was replaced by “Lernen lernen”. The new title means learning how to learn. The start of the movie is scheduled for…
In developing a theory of the evolution of systems that process information, Annette Grathoff had been busy to elucidate the origins of physical information. At the Berkeley Summit of the IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information), she gave…
GSIS Chief Information Scientist Mark Burgin, new GSIS Member Gerhard Chroust besides Rainer E. Zimmermann and Wolfgang Hofkirchner join the team of co-authors of glossaLAB co-ordinator José María Díaz Nafría for a paper accepted for presentation at ICAI 2019, the…
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The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society signed the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism (see screen shot of the website banner above). Hannes Werthner, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), convened…
On 4 July 2019, Rainer E. Zimmermann took over the Presidency of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) (in the photo on the right: Honorary President Herbert Hörz). Zimmermann was elected President by the Plenum of the LS…
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Sophie Huber-Lachner, having joined the researchers community of The Institute only recently, tells about her movie project: This is 2019: cellphones allow us to download any information at any minute, to learn whatever we want to learn. At the same…
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From 14-16 June 2019, Thomas Allmer (University of Stirling) and Karem Schamberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU) blocked a seminar at the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich under the title Digitale Arbeit und Kapitalismus. Twenty-five students of the LMU and of…
Sebastian Sevignani gave a paper at the annual Philosophy & Social Science Conference in Prague. The conference was hosted by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and took place in Vila Lana (see picture) on 1 June 2019.…
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As Special Interest Group of the IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) our Emergent Systems Group presented its activity report to the General Meeting of the IS4SI held at the Summit in Berkeley on June 6, 2019. See…
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