Feb 2021

• Holonomic Techniques, Periods, and Decision Problems
  Feb 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Talk Joël Ouaknine, the scientific director of MPI, will give a talk on his recent results covering math, logic and programming languages.

Jan 2021

• Intersectional Tech: Exploring Black Digital Praxis in Contemporary Gaming
  Jan 28, 2021 Public Lecture, Women in Informatics, Social Responsibility 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 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, Doctoral School 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 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 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 The ViSP is launching its Lecture Series with Andrei Sabelfeld’s talk on critical security issues of TAPs.

Dec 2020

• Robots for Us: Participatory and Community-Centered Design of Robots
  Dec 17, 2020 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Selma Šabanović (Indiana University Bloomington) discusses how we can design robots to fit the needs and values of potential users.
• 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

• Justice, but for whom?—Notes on Designing with Marginalised Populations
  Nov 26, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University) explores our needs for digital services and how we can design digital technologies supporting better futures.
• 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, Doctoral 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 Search technology expert Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains the many types and mechanisms of inclination and how to break the “vicious circle of bias.”