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…
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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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…
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…
A book released end of January 2019 contains papers of speakers of the 6th ICTs-and-Society Conference held in 2017. The book is edited by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs and published with University of Westminster Press. You can download it…
