On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Coy, German expert in Informatics and Society, the Emergent Systems Group, together with the Leibniz-Society of Sciences at Berlin, organised on 8 December 2017 a colloquium on “Technik und Literatur” (“Technology…
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The third meeting of the project Systems Approaches to Information Ethics was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of being and non-being, actuality…
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In the aftermath of a preparatory meeting in Vienna before Easter 2017 and the respective workshop at the IS4SI Summit Gothenburg 2017, ten members of the Emergent Systems Group met at HTW, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, 21-22 September…
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Tomáš Sigmund from the University of Economics Prague and Wolfgang Hofkirchner held together a course module at the Vienna University of Technology. The module on Designing technosocial systems focused in the summer semester 2017 besides systems approaches and systemic approaches to information, information technologies and…
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Marshall McLuhan expert and evolutionary systemist, Robert K. Logan (see photo in the middle), member of the “Emergent Systems Group”, made in August 2017 a stop-over in Vienna and met Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Annette Grathoff. An agreement was made to…
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In April 2017, Emergent Systems Group member Yagmur Denizhan, Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bogazici University, Turkey, was invited by the International Center for Philosophy of Information, School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Xi’an Jiaotong University, to give…
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The Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group organised three workshops at the “IS4SI Summit Gothenburg 2017”, the biannual conference of the „International Society for the Study of Information“ as that society was renamed in Gothenburg. The Summit was held…
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The “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” group – founded as Research Group of the Bertalanffy Center, as Working Group of the Leibniz-Society, and as Special Interest Group of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) – presented on the occasion of the regular General…
During May 2017 the second project meeting of Information Ethics Systems Approaches took place in Vienna. Besides Tomáš Sigmund and Wolfgang Hofkirchner, the following researchers participated: Annette Grathoff, Renate Quehenberger, Stefan Strauß, Liang Wang and Tianqi Wu. Privacy dominated the list…
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In the week before Easter 2017, the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science hosted three events organised by the Emergent Systems Group as a prelude to three workshops to be held by the group at the IS4SI Summit…
