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…
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…
Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
A book on degrowth has been published. The book is a project of Degrowth Vienna as a follow up to the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020: Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation. It covers 19 chapters by over 50 authors on more than 400 pages. Degrowth…
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Our colleague Teresa Guarda organised in 2022 a new edition of the ARTIIS international conference:Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and SustainabilitySecond International Conference, ARTIIS 2022Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 12–15, 2022arttis.org The need for a greener and more digital…
The IPPNW invites to an online hearing on combat drones. The focus will be on recent developments in Africa, Ukraine and Turkey. The event will take place on 25 January 2023, 19:00 CET. You can register here. Language mostly German.…
We organise an online event for the World Logic Day 2023, called for by UNESCO. You are invited to take part as indicated below. Presentations will be uploaded after the event. –––––––––– Updates: Here is the link to the ZOOM…
Our Member, Liang Wang, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, deals with ethics concerning robots and Artificial Intelligence. Recently he published a paper in a Chinese journal in which he argues in favour of virtue ethics over…
