On 3 December 2019, 10:00 to 12:00, GSIS The Institute welcomed Gerhard Banse, Philosopher of Technology, Past President of the Leibniz Society of Scholars, Berlin, for a talk in German on ICT and Sustainable Development – (not) a “Harmony a priori”?!…
ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…
The Second International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI) took place from 6 to 9 November 2019 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus Somosaguas, Spain. It was the first-ever conference with the title: Building up a Global Sustainable Information Society.…
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The IEEE Initiative on ethics with autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS) published the collaborative work on ethical considerations in the design of A/IS (see our previous news on the topic). Wolfgang Hofkirchner contributed to the chapter Classical Ethics in A/IS,…
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Sociologist Franz Ofner, GSIS Member, was invited to a conference on Anthropology and Sociology of Normativities at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Innsbruck. This event – taking place from 20 to 21 September 2019 – was organised…
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The Institute invited – for the first time – to a Wiener Salon in the Werdertorgasse in the City of Vienna. Dr Irena Mostowicz, currently working at IBM, was to give a lecture on 4 October 2019. The topic: Artificial Intelligence: is…
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Resuming our line of scientific research into issues of rational and irrational discourse, post truth, and populism (see 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2018), the Emergent Systems Group gathered with newly established working groups of the Leibniz-Society of Scholars on “Strukturwandel &…
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…
