Gunilla Bradley from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has prepared her Summit 2015 keynote for the interested public. “What is it all about?”, you might ask with her. Her answer is: “Our responsibility for the next generation and…

The Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) invites the group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” to present itself at a one-day colloquium of their two classes (Natur- und Technikwissenschaften; Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften). That group was founded at the Summit 2015 as joint endeavour of the Arbeitskreis…

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, the new President of ISIS, will visit Vienna and participate in her role as Vice-Dean for doctoral education at the Department of Applied Information Technology at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, in the Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors at the 11th…

The Cub of Vienna invites to a one-day Tagung in German on “Gesellschaftliche Bedeutung einer neuen Technologie”. It will be held in Vienna on Wednesday, 7 October 2015. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, is guest and first speaker. He was also invited speaker…

End of October, a colloquium for the convivialist movement is organised at the Université Rennes 2 in France. ISIS Summit speaker Marc Humbert is scheduled after Edgar Morin, Ludwig von Bertalanffy Award in Complexity Thinking laureate in 2012, for the theory section…

The naturhistorisches museum wien works on a refurbished prehistory exhibition. The Venus of Willendorf gets a new home (see picture (photo: nhm) – on the right, Dr. Walpurga Antl who accompanied us on the ship excursion). By the way, new methods of…

The World-Information Institute, residing in Vienna, founded by Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder, together with the TU Vienna Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology, holds a one-day conference on 25 September 2015 on the regulatory politics of code and…

The latest issue of Information Today features highlights of our Summit such as the unpacking of Shannon’s wrongly labeled “Information Theory” (Terrence W. Deacon, UC Berkeley, and Yixin Zhong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), new frontiers of the science of information (Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue…

“Finding an information concept suited for a universal theory of information” is the title of Brier’s most recent article in which he lays out his cybersemiotic approach in Elsevier’s Journal “Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology” (publication year 2015). Brier is…

Susan Mazur, author of “The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza”, interviews Summit speaker Günther Witzany. Communication is key, says Witzany. Here.