The Future Information Society. New Book release
“The accelerated technological development of the modern society is not accompanied by an equally rapid growth in scientific insight, let alone foresight, into the impact of technology on the levels of society other than that of technological organization. […] The public use of the notion of “information society” has been reduced…
3rd ISA Forum 2016 in Vienna: „The Future We want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World”
During this year’s ISA Forum of Sociology (International Sociological Association) taking place in Vienna from 10th to 14th July 2016 BCSSS President Wolfgang Hofkirchner held a lecture on „Convergences of General System Theory, Critical Realism and Theory of Society“ in the framework of the „Research Committee on Sociocybernetics“. Subtitle of the…
Symmetry Festival 2016
Symmetry Festival 2016 Arts & Science Programs. General Relativity 100! 18th – 22nd July 2016 The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science is pleased to be this year’s cooperation partner of the World’s largest multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival in Symmetry Studies organized by the Symmetrion, under the…
Vienna 2016 | Wolfgang Hofkirchner | Convergences of General System Theory, Critical Realism and Theory of Society
The International Sociological Association held its 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 10-14 July 2016 in Vienna. The Forum was devoted to the topic “The future We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World”. Wolfgang Hofkirchner gave a presentation at the Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC 51) on…
Call for Papers and Participation ISSS 2016 Special Integration Group on Socio-Ecological Systems in Boulder, USA, July 24-30, 2016
In 2016 we continue our successful collaboration with the International Society for the Systems Sciences. The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science calls for your papers and participation in this years meeting in Boulder, USA from 24-30 July 2016. Stefan Blachfellner, Managing Director of the BCSSS, and Liss…
We are back, rebooting the system in 2016 – emcsr becomes avantgarde
The European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research will be held in Vienna from March 30th to April 1st, 2016. It will be the first pop up conference meeting in the field of Systems Science, called emcsr avantgarde. The name reflects the vision and the core of the programme. We…
IS4IS President Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic talks in Vienna.
In October Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Professor of Computer Science in Chalmers, Gothenburg and Mälardalen, current IS4IS President and member of the BCSSS Research Group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society”, visited Vienna to give a talk on „A Taxonomy of Computation and Information Architecture“ at the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and another…
Ethics for computer scientists
Besides other commitments when being in Vienna, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of the BCSSS “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” Research Group, gives for invited faculty on 14 October 2015 a seminar at the Institute for Design and Technology Assessment of the Vienna University of Technology. Its title is: Preparing Next Generation of Software…
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