Dec 2022

• Luke Munn, Erich Prem: The Uselessness of AI Ethics
  Dec 6, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Luke Munn (University of Queensland) and Erich Prem (Universität Wien & eutema) discuss the potential and challenges of ethical AI systems.

Nov 2022

• Mohammad Farshi: A Quick Overview of Geometric Spanner Networks
  Nov 30, 2022 Public Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School Mohammad Farshi, Guest Professor at TU Wien Informatics, discusses Euclidean graphs, t-spanners, and their applications.
• Bob Fisher: Agricultural Robots – Chances and Issues
  Nov 29, 2022 Public Lecture, Research, Event Professor Bob Fisher talks about the TrimBot2020 Gardening Robot and other issues with agricultural robots.
• Who Elected Big Tech?
  Nov 25, 2022 Public Lecture, Event, Guest Professor, Doctoral School IWM Digital Humanism Fellow Allison Stanger speaks about technological innovation and power shifts.
• Ran Gelles: Distributed Computations in Fully-Defective Networks
  Nov 24, 2022 Public Lecture, Event, VCLA Ran Gelles shows how to simulate any algorithm for a noiseless setting over any fully-defective setting.
• Potentiale und Anwendungen von Quantum Humanities
  Nov 23, 2022 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Research Johanna Barzen spricht über Quantum Computing in den Digital Humanities und stellt das QHAna Quantum Humanities Analysis Tool vor.
• Open Societies and Democratic Sustainability in the Shadow of Big Tech
  Nov 22, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Doctoral School IWM Digital Humanism Fellow Allison Stanger speaks about technological innovation and its impacts on the contemporary world.
• Topologische Datenanalyse und deren Quantenaspekte
  Nov 22, 2022 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Research Frank Leymann, erster Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor, spricht über Homologie als Grundlage der topologischen Datenanalyse.
• Deep Dive zum Shor-Algorithmus
  Nov 21, 2022 Quantum Computing, Public Lecture, Research Frank Leymann, erster Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor, spricht über Kettenbrüche und deren Wahrscheinlichkeiten bei der Quantenbasierten Faktorisierung.
• Dines Bjørner: “Domain Science & Engineering”
  Nov 4, 2022 Public Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School Join us for a public lecture by guest professor Dines Bjørner of DTU Compute, Technical University, Denmark.

Oct 2022

• Kate Crawford: “Rocks, Flesh, and Rockets. A Political Ecology of AI”
  Oct 18, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Kate Crawford maps the global impacts of large-scale computation on the environment, personal data, and human labor.

Sep 2022

• Humanities Festival 2022
  Sep 27, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Research, Public Outreach In our age of uncertainty, this festival offers transdisciplinary dialogue. On October 2, Dean Gerti Kappel speaks about the chances of Digital Humanism.

Jun 2022

• Eric Horvitz: “AI Advances, Responsibilities, and Governance”
  Jun 28, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, tells us about the potential costs of AI and corporate responsibilities.
• Leonardo Mariani: “Towards Field-Testing”
  Jun 28, 2022 Public Lecture, Doctoral School Join guest professor Leonardo Mariani’s talk “Towards Field-Testing: Breaking the Boundaries of in-House Testing”.
• Ozgur Sinanoglu: “Do You Trust Your Chip?”
  Jun 21, 2022 Public Lecture, Doctoral School Guest professor Ozgur Sinanoglu talks about hardware liabilities in Integrated Circuits (IC) – from reverse engineering to piracy and malicious modifications.
• Arthur Gervais: “How Dark is the Forest?”
  Jun 15, 2022 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Arthur Gervais of Imperial College London, UK.
• Laura Devendorf: “Reconsidering Technology through the Lens of Weaving”
  Jun 14, 2022 Digital Humanism, 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.
• Tommie Meyer: “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning”
  Jun 13, 2022 Public Lecture, Doctoral School Join guest professor Tommie Meyer as he introduces Knowledge Representation and Reasoning as one of the pillars of AI.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2022: Toby Walsh
  Jun 9, 2022 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Toby Walsh, AI expert and “rock star” of Australia’s digital revolution talks about machines behaving badly.

May 2022

• Edward A. Lee: “Limits of Machines, Limits of Humans”
  May 24, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Edward A. Lee, distinguished computer scientist and expert on societal implications of technology, talks about the limits of explainable AI.
• Frances Haugen: “The Facebook Files”
  May 17, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen will talk about accountability & transparency in Social Media.
• Lunch Talk: Astrid Weiss
  May 11, 2022 Public Lecture, Talk, Research, Event ‘One cannot know everything’ — On the need of epistemological diversity in human-centered Human-Robot-Interaction Research
• Joost-Pieter Katoen: “Mechanically Finding the Right Probabilities”
  May 10, 2022 Public Lecture, Doctoral School Join guest professor Joost-Pieter Katoen as he surveys the analysis of parametric probabilistic models.

Apr 2022

• Alex Yakovlev: “Data-Driven Computing”
  Apr 27, 2022 Public Lecture, Doctoral School Join guest professor Alex Yakovlev as he explores the potential for designing a data-driven computer based on the concept of an ensemble of learning automata.
• Carles Sierra: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”
  Apr 26, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Carles Sierra talks about responsible technology and how to counteract social fears of AI.
• Learning from People: Responsibly Encouraging Adoption of Contact Tracing Apps
  Apr 13, 2022 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Elissa Redmiles of Max Planck Institute, Germany.
• AI Ethics as Translational Ethics
  Apr 5, 2022 Digital Humanism, 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.

Mar 2022

• How AI may threaten the political capacity of human intelligence
  Mar 29, 2022 Digital Humanism, 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.
• How to Commit to a Private Function
  Mar 9, 2022 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Dan Boneh of Stanford University, USA.

Feb 2022

• Why AI is Harder Than We Think
  Feb 22, 2022 Digital Humanism, 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.
• Attacking the Brain: Security and Privacy Case Studies
  Feb 9, 2022 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Franziska (Franzi) Roesner of University of Washington, USA.
• Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed Around the Globe
  Feb 8, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Daniel Samaan talks about how the world of work will look like in 2030. Moderation by George Metakides.

Jan 2022

• What is a “Truly Ethical” Artificial Intelligence?
  Jan 25, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Antonio Casilli talks about an end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems.
• IoT Business Models
  Jan 18, 2022 Public Lecture Guest lecture by Prof. Felix Wortmann from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• Quantifying Privacy Risks of Machine Learning Models
  Jan 12, 2022 Public Lecture, Security & Privacy The ViSP Distinguished Lecture Series continues with a talk by Yang Zhang of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany.