News – D!ARC, University of Klagenfurt

Academies encourage the European Commission to adopt a careful and ethical approach to AI in European crisis management

A group of prominent scientists, nominated by the Academy Networks of SAPEA, part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission, is delivering today a report on the role of artificial intelligence in emergency and crisis management. Among its members is Andrej Zwitter, currently Professor of Political Theory and Governance at the University of Groningen. In February 2026, he will move to the University of Klagenfurt, where he will hold the Chair of Human Sciences and Digitalisation and head the current Digital Age Research Center. Today the report was offered to Maciej Popowski, Director-General of the European Commission’s DG ECHO (European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations).

Between Screen and Band saw line 4.0: Mediatization and Subjectivation in the Austrian Forestry and Sawmill Industry

April 30th 11:45 – 13:15 HS Kosuta (S.2.05 in […]

New Book Release: “Democratic Algorithms” by Nikolaus Poechhacker

We are excited to announce the publication of “Democratic Algorithms: Ethnography of a Public Recommender System” by Nikolaus Poechhacker, an exploration into the intersection of algorithm design and democratic values, […]

AI in Programmin Education

June 25th 2024 2.00-4.00pm HS outdoor Košuta Univ.-Ass. Mag. Markus Alfred Wieser (Institute for Informatics Didactics) Abstract: Teaching programming poses significant […]

Polizei und Digitalisierung. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen nostalgischem Schutzmann und modernem Hightech.

27. Mai 2024 16.00 – 18.00 Uhr Z.1.08 Nils Zurawski Forschungsstelle für strategische Polizeiforschung (FOSPOL), Akademie der Polizei Hamburg Abstract Polizei sei ein Erfahrungsberuf, hört […]

Artificial Intelligence Methods for Scheduling in Production and Supply Chain Management

April 23rd 11.45 – 13.15 N.2.01 Sen. Scientist Ramsha Ali, M.Sc. Institut für Artificial Intelligence und Cybersecurity

Publikation und Buchvorstellung: „Heimat – Beiträge zu einem Ort, an dem noch nie jemand gewesen ist“

Im Rahmen des Interdisziplinären Klagenfurter Kollegs wurde an der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Celovec nochmals der Begriff „Heimat“ untersucht. Die nun aktuell erschienen Publikation plädiert für eine Verschiebung in der Begriffsbezeichnung. […]

Keynote von Dr. Susanne Oechsner: „Chiplose Atmosphären“

Von 29.2.-1.3.2024 fand in der Zeche Zollverein (Essen, DE) der Zukunftsworkshop “being tagged! Printable RFID – eine Neuordnung der Welt?“ statt, der in einem spannenden transdisziplinären Format der Frage nachging, […]

D!ARC Lecture: Automated and Datafied Welfare Futures

June 18^th 2024 4.00 – 6.00 pm HS V.1.34

Dr. Doris Allhutter

Abstract:

In many countries across the globe, the public sector is expanding its efforts to introduce data-driven and intelligent systems in the administration of core welfare services such as social benefits provision, unemployment services and healthcare. Critical data studies and adjacent fields have raised concerns that datafication as a social and political process mainly caters to commercial and governance interests. The risks of automation in welfare have primarily been discussed as “black-boxing” (i.e. algorithmic assessments of welfare applicants rest widely inaccessible and unexplainable for case workers and citizens alike), as fundamentally problematic practices of profiling and categorizing citizens (which limits their life experience to what is observable and quantifiable, omitting the complexity of their life situations), and in terms of biased and discriminatory outcomes for protected groups in vulnerable life situations.

Low Degree Polynomial Models In Cryptography

March 5th 2024 11:45 am – 13:15 pm HS N.2.57 Matthias Steiner M.Sc. (Institut für Artificial Intelligence und Cybersecurity)