Dec 2021

• A Stab in the Dark: Blind Attacks on the Linux Kernel
  Dec 15, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Herbert Bos of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• “Verschränkung durchbricht Schranken”
  Dec 10, 2021 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture Frank Leymann, our first Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor, talks about how qubits’ entanglement helps to overcome the limitation of approximate algorithms.
• New Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML)
  Dec 2, 2021 Research, Opening Event, Machine Learning, AI, Focus AI+DS Opening of the new TU Wien Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with a keynote by Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant.

Nov 2021

• From Digital Humanities to Quantum Humanities
  Nov 26, 2021 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Focus ISE, Focus AI+DS Johanna Barzen, Visiting Scientist at our Business Informatics Group, talks about methods of quantum computing in research done in the Humanities.
• Bachelor with Honors 2021: Everything you need to know
  Nov 25, 2021 Bachelor with Honors, Studies, Event You’re interested in our Excellence Program Bachelor with Honors? Then join us at the next info event.
• The Bitter Truth About Quantum Algorithms in the NISQ Era
  Nov 24, 2021 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Focus L+C Frank Leymann, our first Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor, talks about challenges of implementing quantum algorithms on NISQ devices.
• Roger Wattenhofer: “Cascade: Asynchronous Proof-of-Stake”
  Nov 24, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Roger Wattenhofer of ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveillance in China
  Nov 16, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec, Focus VC+HCT Minxin Pei talks about of the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.
• Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?
  Nov 9, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.

Oct 2021

• Digitalization in Health & Care
  Oct 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Researchers from TU Wien and Viennese companies present work in Digital Humanism and Digitalization in Health and Care.
• Bryan Ford: “Digital Personhood”
  Oct 13, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Bryan Ford of EPFL, Switzerland.
• Human-Centered AI
  Oct 12, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.
• Masters’ Welcome 2021
  Oct 5, 2021 Studies, Event, First Steps, Students Our online event where we answer your questions about our master programs, extended study opportunities, and other issues we can help you with.
• Doctorals’ Welcome 2021
  Oct 4, 2021 Event, First Steps, Doctoral School, Students Our event where we answer your questions about our doctoral program, and other issues we can help you with.
• Beginners’ Day 2021
  Oct 1, 2021 Studies, Event, First Steps Am 1. Oktober 2021 findet der Beginners‘ Day statt. Sie erhalten alle wichtigen Informationen über die Bachelorstudien Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Jul 2021

• 18th International Conference CPAIOR 2021
  Jul 5, 2021 Conference, Event, Focus AI+DS Join our hybrid conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.

Jun 2021

• Should we preserve the world’s software history, and can we?
  Jun 29, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus ISE Roberto Di Cosmo (INRIA, France) and Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) discuss the role of software in cultural heritage.
• Decolonising Design within Colonised Worlds
  Jun 24, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT This talk aims to reflect on how we decolonise our ways of being and research within humanitarian, universities and community spaces.
• Join Us Online at the 32nd Epilog
  Jun 16, 2021 Epilog, Event, Excellence Once more this semester, we honor our most excellent graduates for their outstanding achievements—and invite you to be virtually part of the award ceremony.
• Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context
  Jun 15, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
• Continuous Learning: „Technologien der KI“
  Jun 11, 2021 Continuous Learning, Alumni, Public Outreach, Focus AI+DS Lernen Sie losgelöst vom globalen Hype Methoden und Aspekte Künstlicher Intelligenz und Möglichkeiten ihrer Anwendung kennen.
• Design’s Intimacies
  Jun 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT In her talk, Laura Forlano (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) looks into how we might create a more generous understanding of human-machine relations.
• The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation
  Jun 8, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Irina Orssich (European Commission) aims at contributing to the public debate of how AI should be regulated in the future.

May 2021

• Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?
  May 27, 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT In this year’s Gödel lecture, Moshe Vardi will explain why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society.
• #agesextech: Speculative Design for Intimate Encounters & Ageing
  May 20, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Why is a medicalised approach to elderly care problematic, and how could alternative designs inspire us to rethink care, intimacy and ageing?
• The Platform Economy and Europe: Between Regulation and Digital Geopolitics
  May 18, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.
• Fuzz Testing and Beyond
  May 12, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec, Focus ISE Thorsten Holz (University of Bochum) will provide an overview of his recent progress in randomized testing, where he already found hundreds of software bugs.
• International B2B Software Days 2021
  May 10, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, FFG, Focus ISE TU Wien Informatics is part of the biggest industrial B2B event for software and digital business in Europe.
• Cyborgs in Dialogue: The Cyborg Jillian Weise (Cy) & Ashley Shew (she/her)
  May 6, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT What is it like to be a cyborg? And what are the presumptions about being prosthetized? Two cyborgs discuss.
• Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task
  May 4, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, AI, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Different biases affect all of us on the Web. Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains how we can become aware of them and safeguard a concept of ethics in AI.

Apr 2021

• Fehler im System? Wie man Mädchen dauerhaft für Informatik gewinnt
  Apr 22, 2021 Event, Panel Discussion, Women in Informatics, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility Anlässlich des Girls in ICT Day diskutieren wir darüber, wie man mehr Mädchen und Frauen in die Informatik holt.
• Vaccination Passports—a Tool for Liberation or the Opposite?
  Apr 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec How can apps like the “Green Passport” be made reliable and privacy-preserving? And can they pave the way back to normality?
• The Power of Quantum Computing
  Apr 19, 2021 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Event, Focus CE, Focus L+C Frank Leymann, first Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor at TU Wien Informatics, will talk about the potential of quantum computers.
• More Than Teledildonics and Porn: Looking back at Sexuality Research in HCI
  Apr 15, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT G. Kannabiran reflects on how sexuality-related work has progressed and discusses challenges in studying design for sexual wellbeing.
• Studieninfo 2021
  Apr 15, 2021 Studies, Admission, Education Outreach Wir beraten Sie persönlich und beantworten Fragen zu unseren Bachelorstudien Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik sowie zum Aufnahmeverfahren und Reihungstest.
• Privacy and Verifiability in Certificate Transparency
  Apr 14, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec, Focus L+C Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL) will discuss efficient solutions for verifiability and the difficulties of achieving privacy-preserving auditing.
• (Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism
  Apr 13, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Women in Informatics, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT This panel focuses on how different voices and interests can be included in the development and application of digital technologies.

Mar 2021

• Exploring Technology Co-Design from a Lens of Critical Design
  Mar 25, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Christina Harrington explores concepts of community collectivism as a way to address challenges of health and racial equity.
• Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education
  Mar 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT This panel focuses on how digital technologies’ ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.
• Proximity Tracing with Coronalert: Lessons Learned
  Mar 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) will provide details on the experience with the Coronalert app in Belgium.
• TU Wien Informatics auf der BeSt3
  Mar 4, 2021 Studies, Event, Public Outreach, Education Outreach Maßgeschneiderte Beratung für Studieninteressierte und praxisnahe Tipps beim Speed Mentoring gibt es auf der Bildungsmesse BeSt.

Feb 2021

• Preventing Data Colonialism without Resorting to Protectionism
  Feb 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens’ data by non-European companies.
• Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Minor Program “Digital Skills”
  Feb 18, 2021 Studies, Event This curriculum enables undergraduates of TU Wien to design and develop tomorrow’s technology. Join the program!
• SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets
  Feb 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec Henry Corrigan-Gibbs presents the design and implementation of SafetyPin, a system for encrypted mobile-device backups.
• Holonomic Techniques, Periods, and Decision Problems
  Feb 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Talk, Focus L+C, Focus ISE Joël Ouaknine, the scientific director of MPI, will give a talk on his recent results covering math, logic and programming languages.
• Freedom of Expression in the Digital Public Sphere
  Feb 2, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT This lecture will focus on how social media platforms can shape public discourse by their algorithmic content moderation.

Jan 2021

• Intersectional Tech: Exploring Black Digital Praxis in Contemporary Gaming
  Jan 28, 2021 Public Lecture, Women in Informatics, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Kishonna Gray explores how technology disparately impacts women and people of color, and how they are excluded from public spaces.
• Digital Superpowers and Geopolitics
  Jan 26, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, News, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT This panel will focus on the modern colonial powers in cyberspace—global concerns controlling digital platforms and social networks.
• Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Fine Art
  Jan 26, 2021 Public Lecture, Guest Professor, AI, Doctoral School, Focus CE, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Our Doctoral School invites to a talk by David G. Stork about applications of AI methods on the interpretation of fine art.
• The Queer Games Avant-Garde
  Jan 14, 2021 Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Bo Ruberg presents an overview of queer game-making practices and the politics of queer independent video games, including their aesthetics and future.
• Knowledge Processing, Logic, and the Future of AI
  Jan 14, 2021 Public Lecture, News, Logic and Algorithms, VCLA, AI, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS Georg Gottlob will give the first Vienna Logic Day Lecture on the occasion of the World Logic Day 2021.
• SandTrap: Securing JavaScript-driven Trigger-Action Platforms
  Jan 13, 2021 Public Lecture, Event, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec The ViSP is launching its Lecture Series with Andrei Sabelfeld’s talk on critical security issues of TAPs.