Program
Program overview of the 4th Workshop on Digital Humanism.
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Opening
9:30-11:00 Digital Humanism - Where are we, where do we want to go?
- Hannes Werthner (TU Wien, Austria) slides / video
- George Metakides (Digital Enlightenment Forum, Belgium) slides / video
- Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) slides / video
- Moderation: Julia Neidhardt
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Digital Humanism – An Interdisciplinary Challenge – A Challenge for Interdisciplinarity?
- Helga Nowotny (Former President of the ERC, Austria)
- Gertrude Kappel (TU Wien, Austria)
- Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) – “The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity a Century After the Vienna Circle”
- Moderation: Erich Prem (eutema GmbH, Austria)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Contributions and Research Challenges 1
- Robin Burke (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) – “Personalization and its Discontents”
- Paola Inverardi (Università dell’Aquila, Italy) – “making humans digital to remain human: the exosoul project” slides
- Edward A. Lee (University of California at Berkeley, USA) – “Fundamental Differences Between Humans and Digital Machines”
- Moderation: Peter Knees
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Contributions and Research Challenges 1
- Moshe Vardi (Rice University, TX, USA) – “Machine Learning and Logic: Fast and Slow Thinking” slides
- Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien, Austria) – “Watching the Watchmen: Shedding Light on Data Collection in Mobile Apps” slides
- Brigitte Krenn (OFAI, Austria) – “NLP for Social Media content analysis — spotlight on sexism classification” slides
- Moderation: Stefan Woltran (CAIML TU Wien, Austria)
18:00 Evening Reception (Sponsored by WWTF)
Friday, March 4, 2022
9:00-9:30 Initiatives in Vienna
- Reinhard Pichler (TU Wien, Austria) – “The Welcome.TU.Code Initiative at the TU Wien” slides
- Michael Stampfer (WWTF, Austria)
- Moderation: Peter Knees
9:30-11:00 Teaching Digital Humanism
- Susan Winter (University of Maryland, USA) – “Information Schools: Pathway to Digital Humanism”
- Jaap Gordijn (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – “The Design of a Truly European, Multi University, Research Master on Digital Society and Global Citizenship” slides
- Enrico Nardelli (Univ. Roma “Tor Vergata” & Informatics Europe) – “Informatics: the Medicine of the digital world” slides
- Moderation: Hans Akkermans
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Towards implementing Digital Humanism in Practice
- Alexandra Ebert (mostly.ai, Austria) slides
- Konstantinos Karachalios (Managing Director, IEEE Standards Association, USA) – “The role of independent technoscientific organizations in promoting a human centric digitalization vision for the public sector”
- Anja Kaspersen (Carnegie Council of Ethics and International Affairs, USA)
- Dietmar Schabus (Wiener Stadtwerke, Austria) – “The IEEE CertifAIEd Framework for AI Ethics Applied to the City of Vienna”
- Moderation: Clara Neppel (IEEE, Austria)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Joining forces – International Initiatives
- Allison Stanger (Santa Fe National Institute, USA)
- James Guszcza (CASBS, Stanford, USA) – “Creating a Multidisciplinary Foundation for AI Practice” slides
- Manfred Hauswirth (Weizenbaum Institute, Germany) slides
- Sally Wyatt (Digital Society, The Netherlands) – “Working Together for a Dutch Digital Society” slides
- Claudia Reinprecht (Austrian Ambassador to the UNESCO) – “Digital Humanism – a view from UNESCO”
- Moderation: Irina Nalis (Universität Wien, Austria)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 A Roadmap for Digital Humanism
- Moderation: Lynda Hardman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands), Paul Timmers (Oxford University and European University, Cyprus), and Erich Prem (eutema GmbH, Austria)