The IEEE Initiative on ethics with autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS) published the collaborative work on ethical considerations in the design of A/IS (see our previous news on the topic). Wolfgang Hofkirchner contributed to the chapter Classical Ethics in A/IS,…
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Sociologist Franz Ofner, GSIS Member, was invited to a conference on Anthropology and Sociology of Normativities at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Innsbruck. This event – taking place from 20 to 21 September 2019 – was organised…
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A personal reflection on US-Iran relations, written by Hamid Ekbia, Emergent Systems Group member. He lives and teaches in Bloomington, Indiana. Link to the article @lareviewofbooks.
The Institute invited – for the first time – to a Wiener Salon in the Werdertorgasse in the City of Vienna. Dr Irena Mostowicz, currently working at IBM, was to give a lecture on 4 October 2019. The topic: Artificial Intelligence: is…
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Resuming our line of scientific research into issues of rational and irrational discourse, post truth, and populism (see 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2018), the Emergent Systems Group gathered with newly established working groups of the Leibniz-Society of Scholars on “Strukturwandel &…
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…
