Jun 2023

• “AI for a Sustainable Future”
  Jun 12, 2023 Vienna Gödel Lecture, People, Research The number of stars in the Universe is 10²². The number of possible combinations of dams in the Amazon basin is 10¹⁰⁰⁺. We need AI.

Jun 2022

• “Why We Rely on Badly Behaving Machines”
  Jun 10, 2022 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture Toby Walsh tells us about the future of AI and why we should reconsider existing approaches to technology development.

May 2021

• “Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?”
  May 27, 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, News, Social Responsibility In the 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Moshe Vardi explained why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society.

Aug 2019

• Demon AI? Interview with Oren Etzioni
  Aug 3, 2019 Vienna Gödel Lecture, People, Interview Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, gave insights about AI and its challenges.

Jun 2019

• “Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”
  Jun 4, 2019 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, AI Oren Etzioni pleads for separating science from science fiction and an ethically informed approach to the risks and chances of AI.

May 2018

• “On the Way to Artificial Consciousness”
  May 24, 2018 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, AI 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, 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”.

Jun 2016

• “Computational Thinking”
  Jun 9, 2016 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Report, Public Lecture, 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, Report, Public Lecture, 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, Report, Public Lecture, 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, Report, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Inaugurating the Vienna Gödel Lectures, Turing Award winner Donald E. Knuth redefines “lecture”, and meets with an old friend.