The 33rd Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks are scheduled for 3-5 September 2025 again in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. For conference topics, important dates and contact click here. See the Call for Papers here. The conference is an Austrian-Czech co-operation led by Michael Sonntag…
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The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
… am 17. November 2024 um 10:00 Uhr. Der Film ist 3 Tage davor und 90 Tage danach in der SRF Mediathek verfügbar: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sternstunde-religion/video/das-ende-der-menschheit?urn=urn:srf:video:54e21b95-c755-45a2-80ee-f66d2b55dc35 The movie is broadcast with German subtitles. Visit also our introduction to the screening of the…
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The 32nd Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) took place 4 to 6 September 2024 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Our Institutional Member, the Department of Systems Analysis of the University of Economics and Business, Prague, was represented by Petr Doucek…
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When Pope Francis attended the G7 summit last month, he addressed the assembled country leaders with a speech on Artificial Intelligence, titled “An exciting and fearsome tool”, “concerning the effects of artificial intelligence on the future of humanity” as he…
Our Member Jaime F. Cárdenas-García from USA wrote a probe for the Journal New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication which was recently accepted for print. This probe promotes the idea of a “syntactic touch” when exploring the origin of…
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In connection with the topic of our upcoming Utopia(s) Conversations on the film “End of Humanity” in a fortnight, two recent publications co-authored by our Member Yurii Mielkov from Ukraine shall be mentioned here. Abstract:The paper is dedicated to the…
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Under that title, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University held a course from 2 to 31 May 2024 at the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. She was again Guest Professor after 2023.
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GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies & on a Convivial Society for All GSIS is organising a series of conversations in various formats that tie in with the themes of our Utopia(s) Reloaded Talks in October 2023. Our Utopia(s) Conversations…
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