Klaus Kornwachs was invited by the Club of Vienna to hold a lecture. Around fifty people attended on 11 December 2018 his talk on Kritik der Autonomie – Warum Maschinen nicht eigenständig agieren sollten (Critique of autonomy – why machines…
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On 10 December 2018 Klaus Kornwachs was guest in the fall lecture series Aspects of the Digital Transformation, organised by the Center for Informatics and Society (C!S) of the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology. The title of the lecture…
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On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Institut für Design Science München, Rainer E. Zimmermann invited to a continuation of the Berlin meeting a year before (see here). The event took place 5-7 October 2018 at the Leucorea,…
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On 5 July 2018, Robert K. Logan, Prof. Emeritus, Physics, University of Toronto, was invited by the UTI Research Group to give a talk on What is the Origin of Systems Thinking and Who Were the First Systems Thinkers. This…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to be part of the course SOLV XI (self-organised course no. 11) on the change of production and industrial relations in the course of the digital revolution at the Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaft) of the Vienna University of…
During a short summer stay of Robert K. Logan at the UTI Research Group in Vienna in 2018, talks were held between him and Sabine Köszegi from the Institute of Management Science, TU Wien, on AI and robots. Logan has…
The Emergent Systems Group initiated a workshop in the framework of the 10th conference of Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM), hosted by the Johannes Kepler University Linz (see photo from LinzWiki), with the intent to extend the focus of innovative approaches to…
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On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Coy, German expert in Informatics and Society, the Emergent Systems Group, together with the Leibniz-Society of Sciences at Berlin, organised on 8 December 2017 a colloquium on “Technik und Literatur” (“Technology…
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The third meeting of the project Systems Approaches to Information Ethics was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of being and non-being, actuality…
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Ulm University celebrated the 70th birthday of Klaus Kornwachs, system theorist and philosopher of technology, member of our Scientific Council. The Humboldt-Studienzentrum für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, part of the School of Humanities, convened on 20 October a Festcolloquium. Six speakers highlighted six fundamental…
