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2022

Digital Humanism Summer School

2022-09-19
Summer School

Join leading experts in informatics, social sciences, and humanities to collaborate on pressing issues of digital politics, economy, and technology.

Digital Humanism

Eric Horvitz: “AI Advances, Responsibilities, and Governanc…

2022-06-28
Public Lecture
Event
AI

Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, tells us about the potential costs of AI and corporate responsibilities.

Digital Humanism

Laura Devendorf: “Reconsidering Technology through the Lens…

2022-06-14
Public Lecture

Laura Devendorf tells us what weaving has to do with software development and how we can use it as a completely new way to look at design and interaction.

Vienna Gödel Lecture

Toby Walsh, one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence and "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution.

Vienna Gödel Lecture 2022: Toby Walsh

2022-06-09
Digital Humanism
Public Lecture
Event

Toby Walsh, AI expert and “rock star” of Australia's digital revolution talks about machines behaving badly.

Digital Humanism

Edward A. Lee: “Limits of Machines, Limits of Humans”

2022-05-24
Public Lecture
Event

Edward A. Lee, distinguished computer scientist and expert on societal implications of technology, talks about the limits of explainable AI.

Digital Humanism

Frances Haugen: “The Facebook Files”

2022-05-17
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen will talk about accountability & transparency in Social Media.

Digital Humanism

Algorithms. Data. Surveillance – Is There a Way Out?

2022-05-05
Event
Panel Discussion
Public Outreach

Panelists Marc Rotenberg, Maximilian Schrems, and Christiane Wendehorst discuss democracy, digitalization, and ways to take action. Moderation by Josef Broukal.

Digital Humanism

Opening of the Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems

Opening: Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems

2022-05-03
Research
Opening Event
Christian Doppler Labor
Excellence

The new lab at the Institute for Information Systems Engineering deals with dynamic aspects of recommendations and domain-depended solutions.

Digital Humanism

Carles Sierra: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”

2022-04-26
Public Lecture
Event
AI

Carles Sierra talks about responsible technology and how to counteract social fears of AI.

Digital Humanism

AI Ethics as Translational Ethics

2022-04-05
Public Lecture
AI
Social Responsibility

David Danks talks about the ethical implications of AI and how we can create ethics specific to AI design, development, and deployment.

Digital Humanism

How AI may threaten the political capacity of human intelligence

How AI may threaten political capacity of human intelligence

2022-03-29
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

Benjamin Gregg talks about how some forms of artificial intelligence may one day threaten the political capacity of human intelligence.

Digital Humanism

DIGHUM 2022: Towards a Research and Innovation Roadmap

2022-03-03
Workshop
Social Responsibility

How to advance digital technologies towards realizing inclusion and democratic societies. The 4th Workshop on Digital Humanism.

Digital Humanism

Why AI is Harder Than We Think

2022-02-22
Public Lecture
AI
Social Responsibility

Melanie Mitchell talks about why the development of long-promised AI tech has turned out to be much harder than many people expected.

Digital Humanism

Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed

2022-02-08
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Daniel Samaan talks about how the world of work will look like in 2030. Moderation by George Metakides.

Digital Humanism

What is a “Truly Ethical” Artificial Intelligence?

2022-01-25
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Antonio Casilli talks about an end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems.

2021

Digital Humanism

Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveilla…

2021-11-16
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Minxin Pei talks about of the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.

Digital Humanism

Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?

AI and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?

2021-11-09
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.

Digital Humanism

Digitalization in Health & Care

2021-10-20
Event
Social Responsibility

Researchers from TU Wien and Viennese companies present work in Digital Humanism and Digitalization in Health and Care.

Digital Humanism

Human-Centered AI

2021-10-12
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.

Digital Humanism

Should we preserve the world's software history, and can we?

2021-06-29
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

Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context

2021-06-15
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?

Digital Humanism

The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation

2021-06-08
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Irina Orssich (European Commission) aims at contributing to the public debate of how AI should be regulated in the future.

Vienna Gödel Lecture

Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?

2021-05-27
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.

Digital Humanism

The Platform Economy and Europe

2021-05-18
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.

Digital Humanism

International B2B Software Days 2021

2021-05-10
Event
FFG

TU Wien Informatics is part of the biggest industrial B2B event for software and digital business in Europe.

Digital Humanism

Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task

2021-05-04
Public Lecture
AI
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.

Digital Humanism

Vaccination Passports—a Tool for Liberation?

2021-04-20
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?

Digital Humanism

(Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism

2021-04-13
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.

Digital Humanism

Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education

2021-03-23
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

This panel focuses on how digital technologies' ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.

Digital Humanism

Preventing Data Colonialism without Resorting to Protectionism

Preventing Data Colonialism without Becoming Protectionistic

2021-02-23
Public Lecture
Panel Discussion
Social Responsibility

This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens' data by non-European companies.

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2022

Digital Humanism Summer School

Eric Horvitz: “AI Advances, Responsibilities, and Governanc…

Laura Devendorf: “Reconsidering Technology through the Lens…

Vienna Gödel Lecture 2022: Toby Walsh

Edward A. Lee: “Limits of Machines, Limits of Humans”

Frances Haugen: “The Facebook Files”

Algorithms. Data. Surveillance – Is There a Way Out?

Opening: Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems

Carles Sierra: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”

AI Ethics as Translational Ethics

How AI may threaten political capacity of human intelligence

DIGHUM 2022: Towards a Research and Innovation Roadmap

Why AI is Harder Than We Think

Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed

What is a “Truly Ethical” Artificial Intelligence?

2021

Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveilla…

AI and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?

Digitalization in Health & Care

Human-Centered AI

Should we preserve the world's software history, and can we?

Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context

The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation

Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?

The Platform Economy and Europe

International B2B Software Days 2021

Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task

Vaccination Passports—a Tool for Liberation?

(Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism

Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education

Preventing Data Colonialism without Becoming Protectionistic