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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A personal reflection on US-Iran relations, written by Hamid Ekbia, Emergent Systems Group member. He lives and teaches in Bloomington, Indiana. Link to the article @lareviewofbooks.
Our Institute is starting a joint research programme together with the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. Both sides signed an agreement and are set to support the following research activities in the…
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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…
On 4 July 2019, Rainer E. Zimmermann took over the Presidency of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) (in the photo on the right: Honorary President Herbert Hörz). Zimmermann was elected President by the Plenum of the LS…
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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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Stefan Strauß, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, published a book in which he develops an alternative framework for privacy impact assessment. By doing so, he intends to contribute…
The research paper Social relations: building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy, just published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, gives an impression of how the General System Theory intended by Bertalanffy can be interpreted in a realist and critical sociological perspective.…
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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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Joon Kim, Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) (see photo left), and his wife Haeok Lee, psychologist (see photo right), met with Wolfgang Hofkirchner in Vienna on 8 April 2019. Kim and Lee translated Hofkirchner’s book Twenty questions about a…
