Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to give a lecture in the course Transdisciplinarity Research Methods at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg. At the same time, that lecture was part of the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center Research Seminar that connects to Chalmers University. SCCIIL…
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Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning“ in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according to the fourth law of thermodynamics after Stuart…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner attended Research Committee on Sociocybernetics sessions and held a lecture on Convergences of General System Theory, Critical Realism and Theory of Society. The Forum of the International Sociological Association took place in Vienna from 10-14 July 2016.
Members of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society were speakers at a session of the 10th International Leibniz Congress held in Hanover, Germany, during the week from 18 to 22 July 2016. The session was convoked by Rainer E. Zimmermann and dedicated to Relationality…
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The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society held a meeting in the framework of the BCSSS emcsr avantgarde 2016 in Vienna. Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, held…
During his stay at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wolfgang Hofkirchner held on 6 April 2016 with students and faculty at the ICPI, the International Center for Philosophy of Information, a 3 hours workshop on his approach to information that is based…
Another talk of Wolfgang Hofkirchner at the Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China, held on 5 April 2016, addressed the new challenges facing the methodology of social sciences. The lecture dealt with critical assets in social theory dating back to Karl Marx…
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When invited to Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, Wolfgang Hofkirchner gave on 5 April 2016 before the students forum a lecture on the importance of systems theory. This lecture about aims, scope, and tools of systems thinking contended that systems…
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On 13 October 2015, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of the Emergent Systems Group, gave a talk at the Austrian Computer Society (OCG): A taxonomy of computation and information architecture. On 14 October 2015, she gave a talk at the lunch-time seminar…
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In September 2015, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, one of the heads of the newly established Emergent Systems Group, was invited to this year’s Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) in Podebrady, (Czech Republic). Wolfgang Hofkirchner: Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society | presentation |…
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