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…
As Special Interest Group of the IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) our Emergent Systems Group presented its activity report to the General Meeting of the IS4SI held at the Summit in Berkeley on June 6, 2019. See…
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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Mark Burgin edited Volume 10 of the World Scientific Series in Information Studies in May 2019. Volume 11 is planned for 2020. Those publications have been prepared in the aftermath of the Summit Gothenburg 2017. See more…
The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit – held every second year – took place at the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2019. It was organised by neuro-anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon from UC Berkeley. Keynote speakers…
The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, 2 – 6 June 2019, under that title. Current President is Terrence W. Deacon, Professor at Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Read here…
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The IEEE (“Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” – the world’s largest professional association) launched years ago the Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. This initiative consists of several thematic committees comprising some hundred experts in the field, including…
Leibniz Society and Emergent Systems Group member Wolfgang Coy, long-time expert in the field of informatics and society, was awarded the Weizenbaum Medal 2018 sponsored by the Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (Computer Scientists for Peace and Social…
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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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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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