26 calls for papers (calls are open until 27 February 2015) and other programme items are by now online: 3 independent conference series joined the hitherto existing Foundations of Information Science conferences to form the Summit of the International Society…

The plus-energy office building of the TU Wien on the Getreidemarkt campus (photo: TU Wien) The Summit programme has been almost fixed for the first day. The content will build a bridge from the natural history of human information (Terry Deacon)…

We are happy to announce that usage of our platform for submission and registration gains momentum. We received the first submissions 5 days ago. By now, we have got 6 abstracts, notwithstanding the fact that by far not all calls…

Colleagues from China announce a Track on information studies in their country. This Track will be a window for the international public into China and a window for Chinese scholars into the other world as well! By doing so that…

The call says: “The Global Brain can be defined as the self-organizing network formed by all people on this planet together with the information and communication technologies that connect and support them. As the Internet becomes faster, smarter, and more encompassing, it increasingly links its…

FIS does, in our context, not mean the Fédération Internationale de Ski. It signifies the oldest international community in our field – in the field of foundations of information science. FIS is the backbone of our Summit and is together with other…

You can submit! Just click on the “submit” link in every open call for papers. And you can already register. Read the details on our submission and fees sites.

(photo: John Collier) John Collier, expert in complex systems and information theories, when Visiting Scholar at the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS) in Vienna only recently, made up his mind on the red thread of his…

The topic of ethics of robots attracts extended interest on our Summit. Renowned critic of Artificial Intelligence, Hubert Dreyfus, published in 1972 the book “What computers can’t do”, followed up in 1992 by the book “What computers still can’t do”.…

The ICTs-and-Society Network has published its 2015 call: ICTS 2015. The Summit is also the ICTS 2015 (besides FIS 2015, ICPI 2015 and DTMD 2015). (source http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/) It’s all about the commons – the Internet as a commons. The call for papers…