On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Institut für Design Science München, Rainer E. Zimmermann invited to a continuation of the Berlin meeting a year before (see here). The event took place 5-7 October 2018 at the Leucorea,…
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On 5 July 2018, Robert K. Logan, Prof. Emeritus, Physics, University of Toronto, was invited by the UTI Research Group to give a talk on What is the Origin of Systems Thinking and Who Were the First Systems Thinkers. This…
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During a short summer stay of Robert K. Logan at the UTI Research Group in Vienna in 2018, talks were held between him and Sabine Köszegi from the Institute of Management Science, TU Wien, on AI and robots. Logan has…
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20-21 May 2017 took place at the University of Westminster, hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies. Christian Fuchs was Conference Co-Convenor and Chair. The symposium invited ten speakers, among them Antonio Negri. It was supported by the journal tripleC.…
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3-7 June 2015 the fifth conference of the ICTs-and-Society Network took place as part of the International Society for Information Studies (since 2017 International Society for the Study of Information) Summit Vienna 2015, chaired by Wolfgang Hofkirchner who was its…
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From 2010 to 2014, the UTI Research Group carried out a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Co-ordinator was Christian Fuchs, Professor at the University of Westminster (second from the left). Co-worker were (from the right) PhD students Thomas…
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2-4 May 2012 the fourth conference of the ICTs-and-Society Network was held with the support of the Swedish Research Council at Uppsala University, organised by Christian Fuchs, then Professor at Uppsala University, and Marisol Sandoval (see photo above), both Board…
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