Jun 2021

• Should we preserve the world's software history, and can we?
  Jun 29, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Roberto Di Cosmo (INRIA, France) and Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) discuss the role of software in cultural heritage.
• Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context
  Jun 15, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
• The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation
  Jun 8, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility 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, News, Social Responsibility In the 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Moshe Vardi explained why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society.
• Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?
  May 27, 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility 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.
• The Platform Economy and Europe: Between Regulation and Digital Geopolitics
  May 18, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.
• International B2B Software Days 2021
  May 10, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, FFG TU Wien Informatics is part of the biggest industrial B2B event for software and digital business in Europe.
• Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task
  May 4, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility 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

• Vaccination Passports—a Tool for Liberation or the Opposite?
  Apr 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility How can apps like the “Green Passport” be made reliable and privacy-preserving? And can they pave the way back to normality?
• (Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism
  Apr 13, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Women in Informatics, Social Responsibility This panel focuses on how different voices and interests can be included in the development and application of digital technologies.

Mar 2021

• Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education
  Mar 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility This panel focuses on how digital technologies' ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.

Feb 2021

• Preventing Data Colonialism without Resorting to Protectionism
  Feb 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens' data by non-European companies.
• Freedom of Expression in the Digital Public Sphere
  Feb 2, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility This lecture will focus on how social media platforms can shape public discourse by their algorithmic content moderation.

Jan 2021

• Digital Superpowers and Geopolitics
  Jan 26, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, News, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility This panel will focus on the modern colonial powers in cyberspace—global concerns controlling digital platforms and social networks.

Dec 2020

• Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism
  Dec 15, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility In our next lecture, Julian Nida-Rümelin will develop the main features of what he calls Digital Humanism.

Nov 2020

• Socio-Technical Analysis of the so-called AMS-Algorithm
  Nov 19, 2020 Digital Humanism, News, CIS, Social Responsibility TU Wien Informatics was part of the research team investigating possible bias and structural inequalities of the AMS assistance system.
• Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future
  Nov 19, 2020 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Event, Public Outreach We invite you to our online workshop on Digital Humanism to discuss AI in Europe, education, and resilient sustainable systems.
• Ethics and IT: How AI is Reshaping Our World
  Nov 3, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility This panel discussion, part of our DIGHUM lecture series, will deal with the ethical implications and global challenges of AI.

Oct 2020

• Responsibly Encouraging Adoption of Contact Tracing Apps
  Oct 20, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism—this time with Elissa M. Redmiles from Microsoft Research.
• Digital Sovereignty—Navigating Between Scylla and Charybdis
  Oct 6, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, where international experts discuss digital sovereignty.

Sep 2020

• An AI and Computer Science Dilemma: Could I? Should I?
  Sep 22, 2020 Digital Humanism, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, held by Harvard’s Barbara J. Grosz.
• How Not to Destroy the World with Artificial Intelligence
  Sep 8, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Join our DIGHUM lecture series with Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley presenting his views on this crucial issue.

Jul 2020

• Corona Contact Tracing: The Role of Governments and Tech Giants
  Jul 14, 2020 Digital Humanism, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility Join Alfonso Fuggetta, James Larus, and Jeff Kramer discussing this crucial issue in our lecture series.

Jun 2020

• Online Lecture Series on Digital Humanism
  Jun 9, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, News, Social Responsibility Following workshops and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online DIGHUM lectures, where we discuss different aspects of this topic.

May 2020

• Digital Humanism: Informatics in Times of COVID-19
  May 18, 2020 Digital Humanism, Workshop, News, WWTF, Social Responsibility Renowned experts met in our online workshop on May 14th—St. Corona’s day of all days—and discussed the digital transformation of society.
• Digital Humanism: Informatics in Times of COVID-19
  May 14, 2020 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Event, WWTF, Social Responsibility Following a workshop and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online workshop highlighting the digital transformation of society.

Jan 2020

• Julian Nida-Rümelin: “Digitaler Humanismus”
  Jan 8, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Julian Nida-Rümelin reflects on a historically informed view on and the apocalyptic and enthusiastic approaches to Digital Humanism.

Dec 2019

• Edward A Lee: “The Coevolution of Humans and Machines”
  Dec 8, 2019 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event In the third lecture in our series, Edward Ashford Lee presents the case for considering digital beings to be living, then offers counterarguments.

Nov 2019

• Gerfried Stocker: “Humanizing Technology Through Arts”
  Nov 20, 2019 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility The second lecture in our series asks what kind of digital society we want, how we can get there, and what role the Arts can play in it.
• Vienna Positions Itself as Centre for Digital Humanism
  Nov 19, 2019 Digital Humanism, Grant, News TU Wien Informatics wins two out of nine grants awarded by the Vienna City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science.