The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) calls for a paradigm change in the study of information at the Summit 2023 in Beijing, convened by the China Chapter of IS4SI. The message is: A physical approach is deemed…
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Annette Schlemm, our newest addition to the team of researchers, is preparing a book on “Climate Engineering”. The subtitle of the book is: “How we are technologically winning ourselves to death instead of revolutionising society”. The book will be available…
Yagmur Denizhan, full time faculty member at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Head of the Graduate Program in Systems and Control Engineering, published the outcome of her talk in February 2022 as Research Article…
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos and Haris Malamidis held a lecture at the 21st Annual STS Conference Graz 2023 – Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, 8-10 May 2023. The title was: The Model of Open Cooperativism. The Case of Open…
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University is this semester Guest Professor at the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. Her VU Lecture and Exercise course is called Digital Ethics and the Connected World. On 5 May…
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Under this title Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Professor of Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology and Professor of Computer Science at Mälardalen University, Sweden, affiliated to our Emergent Systems Group, will hold a lecture on 4 May 2023 at the TU…
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The programme of the glossaLAB international workshop “From Information to Insights” has been updated. For details click on the picture above to enlarge it. Registration: inscription as face-to-face or online participant. Please do it if you haven’t done it. We…
On 23 April 2023, our Institute has resumed its in-person discussion meetings in Vienna (which were paused due to the pandemic) with a small roundtable. Wolfgang Hofkirchner introduced his recent book publication “The Logic of the Third”. A handout showed…
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Edgar Morin’s most recent booklet on the wars (see here) has been translated by Werner Wintersteiner and Wilfried Graf. It is now available. Its price is € 14,00 (click here).
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In the aftermath of the glossaLAB project, a second international workshop will be held in Spain 2023 as sequel of the one held there in 2022. Time will be devoted to the discussion of INSIGHT as a follow-up project. See…
