The Turing machine model and “natural computation”
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of our recently established Research Group on Emergent Systems, Information and Society, will visit Vienna and give a talk on A Taxonomy of Computation and Information Architecture. The question is how the turing model of computation relates to self-organisation of natural systems: Are they different or do they…
„Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society“. A talk at IDIMT by Wolfgang Hofkirchner
In September Wolfgang Hofkirchner, leader of the BCSSS Research Group “Emergent System, Information and Society”, was invited to this year’s Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) in Podebrady, (Czech Republic) to talk on „Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society“. For further information about IDIMT 2015 please click here!
Relationality and information in Leibniz
Together with the Institut für Design Science München the Bertalanffy Center is represented with five papers for a panel at the X International Leibniz Congress, organised at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, July 18-23, 2016. The papers will discuss issues of organisation, structure, relations and information with Leibniz and assess his ideas as…
BCSSS contributes to the International Society for Information Studies Summit 2015
The Bertalanffy Center was – besides many other organisations – co-organiser of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015, held at the Vienna University of Technology and including a floating part on the Danube. The focus of that event that attracted almost 400 people, mainly scientists, but also entrepreneurs and activists, was on…
“Transforming Systems through Design” marked the cornerstone for a new research group at the BCSSS
On June 6th 2015 the newly established Research Group on Socio-Ecological Systems and Design led by Stefan Blachfellner at the BCSSS contributed to the International Society for Information Studies Summit at the Technological University in Vienna with a track and workshop on Transforming Systems through Design. The workshop was held…
PhD Scholar from China to visit the BCSSS, 2014 till 2016
Another PhD scholar will join our team from autumn onwards. Her name is Lin Bi. She works on a dissertation thesis about the interplay of Information Technology and Information Society. Her supervisor is philosopher of information, Kun Wu. Wu is professor at the Xi’an Jiaotong University. He heads the International Center for…
Thomas Bugnyar presents “Raven politics” at the BCSSS
On 11 December 2015, at 16:15, the Bertalanffy Center, Paulanergasse 13, 1040 Vienna, hosts the Austrian Computer Society Information Studies Working Group with a talk by Thomas Bugnyar. He is Professor for Cognitive Ethology and head of the Department for Cognitive Biology at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University…
The BCSSS welcomes John Collier as Visiting Scholar in November 2014
John Collier, internationally renowned expert in systems, complexity and information, is to visit our Center. He will stay in Vienna for one week and give an open (ended) workshop on “The Dynamical Basis of Social Emergence”. It will deal with the question of what sort of dynamics are required for…
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