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,…

Tobacco mosaic virus (RNA virus). Image copyright Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Besides articles, independent Austrian philosopher Günther Witzany has published a lot of books on biocommunication. He is listed in the network of James Shapiro on the third way of evolution, because…

Austrian is official carrier of our Summit. Also the well-known redtickets (which are the lowest fare of Austrian) are discounted for flights to Vienna from 27th of May, 2015, and from Vienna until 14th of June, 2015. So you can easily…

Due to the date of the Summit – Thursday is holiday, which makes the weekend long – rooms will be scarce. Tourists will populate Vienna. And maybe you want to come with your partner too! So it’s better you take…

Terry Deacon (selfie) Terrence Deacon is Speaker at the Summit. After the “Symbolic Species” he published in 2012 an impactful 600 pages book – “Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter” – in which he, as a (natural) scientist, applies, and finds…

This dictum ascribed to a quote from cybernetician and systems thinker Gregory Bateson denotes a series of interdisciplinary workshops organised by David Chapman and Magnus Ramage. Both belong to the Department for Computing and Communication of The Open University in UK.…

Geraldine Fitzpatrick is a Speaker representative of the host faculty (Fakultät für Informatik der TU Wien). It’s now the fifth year, that Geraldine Fitzpatrick completed in her new function: head of the so-called Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology.…

Aside from Szpankowski, the other two Speakers whose keynote titles have been clarified are Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski and Rafael Capurro. Fuchs-Kittowski is retired computer scientist and has since ever been engaged with questions of information and society. In particular, he is as radical…

You can shape the design of the Summit. In the current phase of the preparation we offer your group or organisation the possibility to step in. You can present yourself, organise paper sessions, workshops, panels or even a conference stream or whatever you would…

Three Speakers have fixed the topics of their contribution. One is Wojciech Szpankowski, Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is Director of one of the Science and Technology Centers that are funded by the US National Science Foundation…