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Systems Engineering and Computer Science scholar Harold ‘Bud’ Lawson memory lives on in his students

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Center, Publications

Harold “Bud” Lawson, an influential scholar in computer-based systems and computing passed away in palliative care on June 10. Since 2013 Lawson supported the BCSSS as a partner for the BCSSS book series on systems. He edited several educational volumes…

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Vienna 2016 | Hamid Ekbia | Computing and Capitalism: Dynamics of Systemic Change

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in emcsr, Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures, Meetings

The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society invited Hamid Ekbia as keynote speaker for their meeting that took part in the framework of the emcsr avantgarde 2016 on 1 April, 2016. Hanid Ekbia – at his stay in Vienna being a…

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Emergent Systems, Information and Society Meeting

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures, Meetings

The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society held a meeting in the framework of emcsr avantgarde 2016. Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, held a keynote…

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“Designing Design” at the Digital Bauhaus Summit 2015, a contribution in collaboration with the BCSSS

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Lectures, Meetings

After a successful first public appearance at the Information Studies Summit in June 2015 in Vienna, we were proud to be invited at the Digital Bauhaus Summit for the Creative Economy on Designing Society in July 2015 Weimar, Germany. Liss…

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