From Civilisation to the Information Society – Social Development at the Crossroads
The overall theme of the EMCSR 2014 was “Civilisation at the Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the Systems Sciences”. Now the Bertalanffy Center is supporting another conference in Vienna that variegates that theme: “The Information Society at the Crossroads – Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information”. This new…
Vienna 2014 | Rainer E. Zimmermann | Energie und Information der sozialen Vermittlung
BCSSS Scientific Council member Rainer E. Zimmermann gave a talk at the working group Information Studies of the Austrian Computer Society. On 6 June, 2014, he outlined how the concepts of entanglement and decoherence rooted in quantum theoretical considerations can be fertilised for the difference between dyadic entanglements of individual…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
Mario Bunge on “Quantum Physics” and on “Mind”
Mario Bunge, EMCSR keynote speaker and winner of the Ludwig von Bertalanffy Award in Complexity Thinking 2014, was invited to hold two additional talks during his stay in Vienna. Both events were co-organised by the BCSSS. Anton Zeilinger, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, invited Bunge to the Vienna branch of…
Palermo 2014 | Panel | Primordial Matter, Particles, and Stuff. On the Transition from Physics to Chemistry and Further On
Via Roma, Center of Palermo (photo: Thomas Zimmermann) What is the nature of matter? This question is still contested. Philosophers met in Palermo from the 10th to the 13th of April to discuss the latest state-of the-art. The conference had the title “Understanding Matter” and was hosted by the Department…
Invitation to the Bertalanffy Symposium 2013
We heartly invite you to the upcoming 2nd Bertalanffy Symposium Emergence: Systems – Evolution – Information jointly organised by the BCSSS and the Working Group Information Studies at the Austrian Computer Society. The current worldview of complexity aims at understanding emergent phenomena. Austrian and international experts from different disciplines –…
León 2013 | Workshop | Social Networks
September 13-15, 2013, the University of León, León, Spain, held a workshop for students on “Social networks: from communication to solidarity (an interdisciplinary approach)”. It was organised by BCSSS Fellow José María Díaz Nafría. Two Board Members were invited to give talks. Wolfgang Hofkirchner introduced the notion of the Global…
Franz Pichler appointed Honorary Member of the BCSSS
Franz Pichler, Prof. emeritus, was recently nominated as Honorary Member of the Bertalanffy Center. Educated as mathematician, in 1972 he was appointed Professor of Systems Theory at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. He is known for applying systems theory to information technology. Two times he was Visiting Professor for General Systems Theory at the…
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