Nov 2020

• Community-based Design of Open Source Software for Transgender People
  Nov 12, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Alex Ahmed (Carnegie Mellon University) points out that people are increasingly alienated from how technologies are designed.
• 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.
• Ten Challenges for Deontic Logic in AI
  Nov 3, 2020 Public Lecture, Talk, Event, PhD School The Vienna PhD School of Informatics invites to a talk by Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg).

Oct 2020

• Braving Citational Justice within Human-Computer Interaction
  Oct 29, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility Neha Kumar and Naveena Karusala discuss citational justice in our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology.
• 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.
• Race and the Problems with ‘Progress’ in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
  Oct 15, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility Join us online for our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology, starting with Roos Hopman (Amsterdam).
• 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

• 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.

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.

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.
• Susan J. Winter: “Cui bono? A Sociotechnical View of Smart Cities”
  Nov 6, 2019 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Kicking off our public lecture series on Digital Humanism, Susan J. Winter (University of Maryland) talks about ethical dilemmas and challenges of smart cities.

Oct 2019

• Public Lecture Series on Digital Humanism
  Oct 28, 2019 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Following a workshop and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to a public lecture series on this critical and urgent topic.

Jun 2019

• “Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”
  Jun 4, 2019 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture Oren Etzioni pleads for separating science from science fiction and an ethically informed approach to the risks and chances of AI.
• Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
  Jun 4, 2019 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event How should we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its progress in recent years? Does AI threaten humanity, or will it be a source of beneficial techno…

Oct 2018

• New Lecture Series on „Aspects of the Digital Transformation“
  Oct 1, 2018 Public Lecture, Research, CIS, Social Responsibility The Centre for Informatics and Society (CIS) of the Faculty of Informatics is announcing a public lecture series on aspects of the Digital Transformation.

May 2018

• “On the Way to Artificial Consciousness”
  May 24, 2018 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture Turing Award winner Manuel Blum asks whether machines can develop consciousness, and why that needn’t frighten us.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2018: Manuel Blum
  May 24, 2018 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event Turing Award winner Manuel Blum will talk about neuroscience as an inspiration for computer architecture in this year’s Vienna Gödel Lecture.

Jun 2017

• “Bias in the Web”
  Jun 14, 2017 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains the many types and mechanisms of inclination and how to break the “vicious circle of bias.”
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2017: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  Jun 8, 2017 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event Former Yahoo Labs Vice-president Ricardo Baeza-Yates will talk about "Bias in the Web" at this year’s Vienna Gödel Lecture.

Jun 2016

• “Computational Thinking”
  Jun 9, 2016 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Jeannette Wing explains why every child should learn to think computationally, and why this ability benefits society.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2016: Jeannette Wing
  Jun 9, 2016 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event Jeannette Wing's Vision für die Zukunft ist, dass Computational Thinking als grundlegende Fähigkeit von jedem Menschen auf der Welt genutzt wird.

Mar 2015

• “How Computers Learn”
  Mar 27, 2015 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Peter Norvig demonstrates how machines can independently learn to perform complex tasks or develop sophisticated game strategies.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2015
  Mar 26, 2015 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google Inc., will explain “How Computers Learn” in this year’s Vienna Gödel Lecture.

Jun 2014

• “Origami Folding – The Elegance of Algorithms”
  Jun 6, 2014 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Erik Demaine’s fascinating Origami folding techniques follow complex algorithms that can be used in robotics and even in astronautics.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2014
  Jun 4, 2014 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event Erik Demaine from MIT will be our guest speaker of the second Vienna Gödel Lecture on June 4th, 2014.

May 2013

• “All Questions Answered”
  May 28, 2013 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Inaugurating the Vienna Gödel Lectures, Turing Award winner Donald E. Knuth redefines “lecture”, and meets with an old friend.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2013: Donald E. Knuth
  May 16, 2013 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Event The inauguration of our new lecture series will be held by Turing Award winner Donald E. Knuth on May 16th, 2013.