Dec 2021

• “Verschränkung durchbricht Schranken”
  Dec 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Quantum Computing Frank Leymann, our first Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor, talks about how qubits' entanglement helps to overcome the limitation of approximate algorithms.

Nov 2021

• From Digital Humanities to Quantum Humanities
  Nov 26, 2021 Public Lecture, Quantum Computing Johanna Barzen, Visiting Scientist at our Business Informatics Group, talks about methods of quantum computing in research done in the Humanities.
• The Bitter Truth About Quantum Algorithms in the NISQ Era
  Nov 24, 2021 Public Lecture, Quantum Computing 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 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 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 Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.

Oct 2021

• Bryan Ford: “Digital Personhood”
  Oct 13, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy 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 Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.

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.
• Decolonising Design within Colonised Worlds
  Jun 24, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility This talk aims to reflect on how we decolonise our ways of being and research within humanitarian, universities and community spaces.
• 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?
• Design’s Intimacies
  Jun 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility 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 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 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 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 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 Thorsten Holz (University of Bochum) will provide an overview of his recent progress in randomized testing, where he already found hundreds of software bugs.
• Cyborgs in Dialogue: The Cyborg Jillian Weise (Cy) & Ashley Shew (she/her)
  May 6, 2021 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility 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 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?
• The Power of Quantum Computing
  Apr 19, 2021 Public Lecture, Event, Quantum Computing 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 G. Kannabiran reflects on how sexuality-related work has progressed and discusses challenges in studying design for sexual wellbeing.
• Privacy and Verifiability in Certificate Transparency
  Apr 14, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy 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 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 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 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 Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) will provide details on the experience with the Coronalert app in Belgium.

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.
• SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets
  Feb 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy 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 Joël Ouaknine, the scientific director of MPI, will give a talk on his recent results covering math, logic and programming languages.