(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…

Søren Brier, Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, published in 2008 the book “Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough” (now available as paperback). The main argument is that meaning cannot be covered by accounts that reduce information to a technological…

Until 17 November 2014, the call to groups for participation brought a return of 45 proposals for special tracks. (And still there are proposals coming in.) So the programme takes shape! About half of them involve calls for papers. Others suggest tracks…

We chartered a ship for the whole last day of the Summit: the Summit will be continued on board. The ship is MS Admiral Tegetthoff from the DDSG and has room for plenary and parallel sessions as well. The floating conference…

So far we have four conference streams. One was already introduced here (The Difference that Makes a Difference – go to Call for Papers). Further conference streams are the following two. In 2008, when acting as Professor for Internet and Society…

Innovations are emergent processes. Though they are emergent and can’t thus be fully controlled, we are part of the game and have an influence on them. How can we facilitate the emergence of innovations that are needful and impact our societies…

Philosopher of Information, Luciano Floridi, known for his recent books “The Fourth Revolution – How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality” (2014), “The Ethics of Information” (2013), and “The Philosophy of Information” (2011), now Director of Research at the OII,…