Wolfgang Hofkirchner made a contribution to the project on systems thinking origins. At a talk given at the IS4SI Summit Berkeley 2019 he provided a work-in-progress insight into his preoccupation with the topic. He contends that thinking in hierarchical levels…
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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Mark Burgin edited Volume 10 of the World Scientific Series in Information Studies in May 2019. Volume 11 is planned for 2020. Those publications have been prepared in the aftermath of the Summit Gothenburg 2017. See more…
The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit – held every second year – took place at the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2019. It was organised by neuro-anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon from UC Berkeley. Keynote speakers…
Stefan Strauß, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, published a book in which he develops an alternative framework for privacy impact assessment. By doing so, he intends to contribute…
The research paper Social relations: building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy, just published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, gives an impression of how the General System Theory intended by Bertalanffy can be interpreted in a realist and critical sociological perspective.…
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The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, 2 – 6 June 2019, under that title. Current President is Terrence W. Deacon, Professor at Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Read here…
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Joon Kim, Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) (see photo left), and his wife Haeok Lee, psychologist (see photo right), met with Wolfgang Hofkirchner in Vienna on 8 April 2019. Kim and Lee translated Hofkirchner’s book Twenty questions about a…
The IEEE (“Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” – the world’s largest professional association) launched years ago the Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. This initiative consists of several thematic committees comprising some hundred experts in the field, including…
Leibniz Society and Emergent Systems Group member Wolfgang Coy, long-time expert in the field of informatics and society, was awarded the Weizenbaum Medal 2018 sponsored by the Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (Computer Scientists for Peace and Social…
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Artists play a decisive role in societal transformations. Often, in times of crises, a considerable part of them, together with other parts of society, represent kind of conscience of society and they influence the societal consciousness through their criticism of…
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