Our Institute signed an academic, scientific and cultural agreement with the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA Madrid Open University). The agreement foresees annual plans of co-operation in areas in which the parties have expressed interest. Such plans cover possibilities…
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The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague (FIS) and The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS) signed a Memorandum on a joint project on Information Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability. This project shall…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to give a lecture on Emergent information. A Unified Theory of Information framework (the title of his 2013 monograph) at the Institute of Information Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, on 26 November 2019.…
From 22 to 24 November 2019, the German Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) held its annual conference at the University of Bremen. The overall theme was Künstliche Intelligenz als Wunderland. The conference offered 11 plenary…
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ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…
The Second International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI) took place from 6 to 9 November 2019 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus Somosaguas, Spain. It was the first-ever conference with the title: Building up a Global Sustainable Information Society.…
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The Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg (iASK), Hungary, hosts a research group “to shed lights on the frontiers of human and machine knowledge, and to initiate international discourse on the seething area of humanity in the digitally driven revolution” –…
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.
