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, Public Lecture, Report Oren Etzioni pleads for separating science from science fiction and an ethically informed approach to the risks and chances of AI.

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, Public Lecture, Report Turing Award winner Manuel Blum asks whether machines can develop consciousness, and why that needn’t frighten us.

Jun 2017

• “Bias in the Web”
  Jun 14, 2017 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Report, Social Responsibility Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains the many types and mechanisms of inclination and how to break the “vicious circle of bias.”

Jun 2016

• “Computational Thinking”
  Jun 9, 2016 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Report, Social Responsibility Jeannette Wing explains why every child should learn to think computationally, and why this ability benefits society.

Mar 2015

• “How Computers Learn”
  Mar 27, 2015 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Report, Social Responsibility Peter Norvig demonstrates how machines can independently learn to perform complex tasks or develop sophisticated game strategies.

Jun 2014

• “Origami Folding – The Elegance of Algorithms”
  Jun 6, 2014 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Report, Social Responsibility Erik Demaine’s fascinating Origami folding techniques follow complex algorithms that can be used in robotics and even in astronautics.

May 2013

• “All Questions Answered”
  May 28, 2013 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Report, Social Responsibility Inaugurating the Vienna Gödel Lectures, Turing Award winner Donald E. Knuth redefines “lecture”, and meets with an old friend.