2021
Jun 2021
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Jun 15, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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Apr 19, 2021 Public Lecture, Event Frank Leymann, first Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor at TU Wien Informatics, will talk about the potential of quantum computers.
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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.
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Apr 14, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL) will discuss efficient solutions for verifiability and the difficulties of achieving privacy-preserving auditing.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Feb 10, 2021 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy Henry Corrigan-Gibbs presents the design and implementation of SafetyPin, a system for encrypted mobile-device backups.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
2020
Dec 2020
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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.
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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
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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.