On 19 June 2022, a peace event will accompany the 1st UN Conference of the Partner States of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna. This event is organised by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), the Aktionsbündnis…
Our project glossaLAB organises an international workshop in Spain, 23-31 May 2022. See the programme here. Besides the project leaders Teresa Guarda and José María Díaz Nafría, our Members Tomáš Sigmund and Modestos Stavrakis are planned with several inputs. Sigmund…
It is clear that systems sciences are expected to come up with analyses and recommendations how to solve the crisis in the implementation of an inclusive security architecture for Europe and the world. Francisco Parra-Luna, sociologist and systems thinker, co-ordinated…
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The proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Information Summit in 2021 are available open access. Read the editorial by Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin. Browse the contributions to APC Philosophy and Computing DIGHUM Workshop on Digital…
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The speeches at the workshop on Digital Humanism: how to shape digitalisation in the age of global challenges – which was a contributing conference to the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit 2021 – have been recorded.…
The Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group, which is at the same time a Working Group at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS), held a conference on digital media and the future culture of scientific work. The conference…
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That’s the title of a talk Yagmur Denizhan, Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and Head of the Graduate Program in Systems and Control Engineering of Bogazici University, Turkey, will give at an online event, 10 February 2022,…
Continue reading the "“Intelligence as a Border Activity Between the Modelled and the Unmodelled”" »
Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, WU professor, chair of the Institute for IS & Society, was host, initiator and main speaker at an event at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) on 16 November 2021 that was sponsored by the IEEE.…
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The journal FIfF-Kommunikation 4/2021, edited by our German friends organisation Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), contains a 20 pages supplement with the title “Künstliche Intelligenz zieht in den Krieg” (AI goes to war). Emergent systems group…
This book, edited by Pieter Verdegem from the University of Westminster, is published open access and available here. It brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what…
