Public Guest Lecture: Alternative Post-Digital Futures

On May 29 the University Library stays closed.
Please register in good time – 24 hours in advance of your use – for the 24/7 library to use our reading rooms and media stacks all around the clock as usual.
We look forward to your visit!
Der Beitrag May 29: library closed erschien zuerst auf University of Klagenfurt.

Martin Pinzger got invited by top ranked journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE TSE) to write a retrospective of their work on ChangeDistiller, published by this journal in 2007. This work was selected by IEEE as one of the most influential papers of IEEE TSE’s 4th decade. The retrospective is available here.

Jetzt steht es fest: Die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) konnte sich bei der Exzellenzstrategie mit zwei Cluster-Initiativen durchsetzen. Bei der Exzellenzstrategie handelt es sich um ein hoch kompetitives Förderprogramm von Bund und Ländern für wissenschaftliche Spitzenleistungen. Einen Zuschlag gab es für das neue Forschungsprojekt NUCLEATE und die Fortsetzung des Exzellenzclusters ctd.qmat. Die Cluster zur Nukleinsäureforschung und zur Quantenphysik sind damit zwei von 70, die es aus insgesamt 98 Vollanträgen bis zur Förderung geschafft haben.

Olivier Alexandre, AOC, 21 et 22 mai 2025.
L’article Faire de la recherche en pleine apocalypse est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Innovation continues to evolve at great speed, yet investment in and meaningful action to address healthcare challenges remains fragmented and is decreasing. The AI revolution comes at a time of acute political polarization and dramatic scaling back of funding for development programmes that support some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. Crucial decisions relating to regulation, ethical frameworks and governance structures will shape how both digital health and AI continues to develop and will have long-term repercussions.

KI verändert den Alltag rasant. Doch wie steht es um die Akzeptanz? Was ist notwendig, um das Vertrauen der Menschen in KI zu stärken? Diesen Fragen widmet sich Bärbel Brockman in der Titelstory „Eine Frage des Vertrauens“ des Spiegel-Beilegers „StarkesLandBayern“. In ihrem Artikel beleuchtet die Autorin, inwieweit Menschen KI vertrauen können und wie die Forschung dazu beitragen kann, das Vertrauen zu fördern.

El martes 13 de mayo se realizó el seminario “Inteligencia, Justicia y Crimen Organizado: Una mirada interinstitucional”, organizado por el Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC junto con el Centro UC para la Seguridad Pública, en el marco del lanzamiento oficial de este nuevo centro académico interdisciplinario. 

Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya initiative (BHKi) was able to find errors in over-complex spreadsheets and use ODE's metadata panel to standardise schemas for future surveys.
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Enhancing genomic data literacy among researcher communities in Kenya first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

The 8th Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA-RAPDP) Conference, held in Abuja, Nigeria, served as a key forum for NADPA-RAPDP members to deliberate on their evolving role in shaping Africa’s digital governance landscape. More than a policy gathering, the conference signaled a shift in how Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) across the continent see themselves; not just as watchdogs, but as enablers of responsible innovation.

The City of Zagreb was able to reduce error-resolution time, comply with open data standards and foster a culture of data literacy across different city offices in the capital of Croatia
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Streamlining data governance and unlocking the potential value of urban data in Croatia first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

The Quantitative Economics Division of the Department of Economics cordially invites you to the W&R Talk entitled “W&R-Gastvortrag: Admissible Inference for the Structure of the Covariance Matrix in High Dimensions“.
Speaker: Professor Werner Ploberger, Thomas H. Eliot Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, USA
When: Wed. June 18, 2025, 14:00-15:30

DataGénero co-founder joins us for the fifteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement
The post Ivana Feldfeber: ‘There is no evidence that more technology makes people better’ first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.