Montag, 19. November 2018

[HIForum] [Kolloquium] ERINNERUNG / REMINDER - Informatisches Kolloquium 19.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

May we kindly remind you of the today's talk at 17:15 in room B-201. 

Wir möchten an den heutigen Vortrag um 17:15 in Raum B-201 erinnern. 

 

The colloquium committee is looking forward to sharing this talk with you.

Das Kolloquiumkomitee würde sich freuen, Sie begrüßen zu dürfen.

 

Best regards/ MfG

On behalf of the colloquium committee/ i.A. des Kolloquiumkomitees

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Von: Fbi-alle <fbi-alle-bounces@mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> im Auftrag von "Schulte Hemming, Stephanie" <schulte@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Datum: Dienstag, 13. November 2018 um 09:50
An: "kolloquium@informatik.uni-hamburg.de" <kolloquium@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Betreff: [Fbi-alle] [Kolloquium] EINLADUNG / INVITATION - Informatisches Kolloquium 19.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

 

Dies ist eine Einladung zum Informatischen Kolloquium am Montag, den 19.11.2018 um 17:15 auf dem Universitätsgelände "Informatikum/Stellingen", im Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal B-201. Der Vortrag mit dem Titel "Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research" wird von Herrn Prof. Dr. Edgar Weippl gehalten, tätig am SBA-Research und der TU Wien (Vortragssprache: Englisch/Deutsch).

 

This is an invitation to the next informatics colloquium on Monday, 19 November 2018, at 17:15, on university campus Stellingen, lecture hall B-201. The talk is entitled " Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research " and will be given in English or German (according to preference) by Prof. Dr. Edgar Weippl from SBA-Research and the University of Vienna/Austria.

 

Nähere Informationen zu allen in diesem Semester geplanten Vorträgen finden Sie unter:

Please use the following link for more information on all talks planned in this semester:

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/kolloquium/wise18-19.html

 

Im Namen des Kolloquium-Komitees

On behalf of the colloquium committee

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Abstract:

With the increase of interconnectivity and ubiquitous data access, new services have emerged. Distributed Ledger Technologies and their underlying principles can be used to reach agreement or consensus upon a distributed state in a highly distributed environment. They have many different aspects and can therefore be viewed from various angles, including the financial and economic, legal, political, and sociological perspective, as well as considering technical and socio-technical points of view. In the presentation I will show three aspects that are important in our research: (1) theoretical foundations, (2) understanding real world phenomena, and (3) impact. For instance, proof-of-work (PoW) as used in Bitcoin is not only relevant to achieving consensus but also serves as a source of randomness. Without it leader selection becomes an issue. Finally, understanding economic incentives and malicious behavior to undermine consensus in public blockchains is important to create a stable cryptocurrency environment upon which new services can be built. 

 

Bio:

Edgar R. Weippl is Research Director of SBA Research and Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Security and Quality Improvement in Production Systems at TU Wien. He also teaches and supports research at UAS St. Pölten. Edgar focuses on (1) fundamental and applied research on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and (2) security of production systems engineering. He is on the editorial board of Elsevier's Computers & Security journal (COSE), was PC chair of ESORICS 2015, general chair of ACM CCS 2016 and PC Chair of SACMAT 2017. After graduating with a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar worked for two years in a research startup. He spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant for an HMO in New York, NY and Albany, NY, and for the financial industry in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 he joined the Vienna University of Technology and together with A Min Tjoa and Markus Klemen founded the research center SBA Research.

 

  

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Mathias Fischer

 

Dienstag, 13. November 2018

[HIForum] Kick off: Public Lecture Series „Taming the Machines - Discussing the Ethics of Information Technologies" (14.11.2018, 18-20:00)

Liebe HIForum-Mitglieder,

wir möchten Sie zu dieser spannenden Ringvorlesung, die von Judith Simon, unserer Professorin für Ethik in der Informationstechnologie und ihrer Gruppe in diesem Semester angeboten wird, einladen!

Herzliche Grüße
Angela Schwabl



— English below —


Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,



diesen Mittwoch um 18:00 startet unsere öffentliche Ringvorlesung „Taming the Machines - Discussing the Ethics of Information Technologies", zu der wir Sie alle ganz herzlich einladen möchten! Wir haben großartige Rednerinnen und Redner gewinnen können: Den ersten Vortrag wird diesen Mittwoch Professor Payal Arora von der Erasmus Universität Rotterdam/Catalyst Lab halten zum Thema: "Regulated Data - Regulated Activism? Digital Activism in the GDPR Era." Weitere Information zur Vortragenden und zum Vortrag finden Sie unten sowie hier: https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/payal-arora.html 


Bereits nächste Woche findet der nächste Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Katharina Anna Zweig von der TU Kaiserslautern zum Thema "Are Machines Better Judges?" statt. https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/katharina-anna-zweig.html 


Sie finden das vollständige Programm für dieses Semester hier: 

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines.html

Alle Vorträge finden in Englisch statt.

Herzliche Grüße,
Judith Simon & das Team EIT

-----------------


Dear Colleagues,


This Wednesday, we will kick off our public lecture series „Taming the Machines" - Discussing the Ethics of Information Technologies

 

Regulated Data - Regulated Activism? Digital Activism in the GDPR Era

Professor Payal Arora, Erasmus University Rotterdam/Catalyst Lab

 

When: 14th November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Where: lecture hall B, main building at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, University of Hamburg

 

About the lecture

In a favela ruled by the drug lords in Rio de Janeiro, an activist uses Facebook Live to capture the dealings in his neighborhood, putting himself and some of his community members at risk. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a few teenage girls instagram the fashions of the week, unveiled, an act that can be persecuted by the morality police. In Jammu and Kashmir, some activists through the hashtag #justiceforkathua draw attention to the case of an eight-year old nomadic girl who was gang raped, defying the privacy law on revealing identities of minors. These are just some of the many cases that shed light on the gray area between privacy and protest. Contrary to seeking to be protected through anonymity as the bulk of the current research alludes to, some of those at the margins may choose to put themselves at high risk by being visible and heard. The GDPR, rooted in the Western ideology of individual choice and rights, may have created a privacy universalism, begging the question of whether privacy is a privilege and a luxury. This talk draws from a decade of fieldwork and activism among vulnerable communities beyond the West to grapple with the question of whether privacy and activism are after all compatible.

 

About the speaker

Payal Arora is the Founder of Catalyst Lab, a digital activism organization and an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has consulted for the private and the public sector including for UNESCO, World Bank, hp, The Ministry of Jordan, Kellogg and Siemens. She has published about fifty papers and given more than a 125 presentations in 70 cities and 30 countries, including a TEDx talk on the future of the internet. Arora sits on multiple boards including the Facebook Election Advisory Commission, Columbia University's Connect to Learn, and The World Women Global Council in New York. She is the author of several books on the internet and the Global South including the upcoming 'The Next Billion Users: Digital Life beyond the West' with Harvard University Press.

 

Visit our website to find the complete programme of our „Taming the Machines" lecture series as well as site plans of the location.

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines.html


Kind regards,

Judith Simon & the team EIT

 

————————
Prof. Dr. Judith Simon
Professor for Ethics in Information Technology
Universität Hamburg | Department of Informatics
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30 | 22527 Hamburg | Germany 

phone: + 49 (0)40 42883 2020
email: simon@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
web: https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/team/simon.html 






[HIForum] [Kolloquium] EINLADUNG / INVITATION - Informatisches Kolloquium 19.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

Dies ist eine Einladung zum Informatischen Kolloquium am Montag, den 19.11.2018 um 17:15 auf dem Universitätsgelände "Informatikum/Stellingen", im Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal B-201. Der Vortrag mit dem Titel "Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research" wird von Herrn Prof. Dr. Edgar Weippl gehalten, tätig am SBA-Research und der TU Wien (Vortragssprache: Englisch/Deutsch).

 

This is an invitation to the next informatics colloquium on Monday, 19 November 2018, at 17:15, on university campus Stellingen, lecture hall B-201. The talk is entitled " Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research " and will be given in English or German (according to preference) by Prof. Dr. Edgar Weippl from SBA-Research and the University of Vienna/Austria.

 

Nähere Informationen zu allen in diesem Semester geplanten Vorträgen finden Sie unter:

Please use the following link for more information on all talks planned in this semester:

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/kolloquium/wise18-19.html

 

Im Namen des Kolloquium-Komitees

On behalf of the colloquium committee

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Abstract:

With the increase of interconnectivity and ubiquitous data access, new services have emerged. Distributed Ledger Technologies and their underlying principles can be used to reach agreement or consensus upon a distributed state in a highly distributed environment. They have many different aspects and can therefore be viewed from various angles, including the financial and economic, legal, political, and sociological perspective, as well as considering technical and socio-technical points of view. In the presentation I will show three aspects that are important in our research: (1) theoretical foundations, (2) understanding real world phenomena, and (3) impact. For instance, proof-of-work (PoW) as used in Bitcoin is not only relevant to achieving consensus but also serves as a source of randomness. Without it leader selection becomes an issue. Finally, understanding economic incentives and malicious behavior to undermine consensus in public blockchains is important to create a stable cryptocurrency environment upon which new services can be built. 

 

Bio:

Edgar R. Weippl is Research Director of SBA Research and Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Security and Quality Improvement in Production Systems at TU Wien. He also teaches and supports research at UAS St. Pölten. Edgar focuses on (1) fundamental and applied research on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and (2) security of production systems engineering. He is on the editorial board of Elsevier's Computers & Security journal (COSE), was PC chair of ESORICS 2015, general chair of ACM CCS 2016 and PC Chair of SACMAT 2017. After graduating with a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar worked for two years in a research startup. He spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant for an HMO in New York, NY and Albany, NY, and for the financial industry in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 he joined the Vienna University of Technology and together with A Min Tjoa and Markus Klemen founded the research center SBA Research.

 

  

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Mathias Fischer

 

Montag, 12. November 2018

[HIForum] [Kolloquium] ERINNERUNG/ REMINDER - Informatisches Kolloquium 12.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

May we kindly remind you of the today's talk at 17:15 in room B-201. 

Wir möchten an den heutigen Vortrag um 17:15 in Raum B-201 erinnern. 

 

The colloquium committee is looking forward to sharing this talk with you.

Das Kolloquiumkomitee würde sich freuen, Sie begrüßen zu dürfen.

 

Best regards/ MfG

On behalf of the colloquium committee/ i.A. des Kolloquiumkomitees

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Von: Fbi-alle <fbi-alle-bounces@mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> im Auftrag von "Schulte Hemming, Stephanie" <schulte@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Datum: Freitag, 2. November 2018 um 08:49
An: "kolloquium@informatik.uni-hamburg.de" <kolloquium@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Betreff: [Fbi-alle] [Kolloquium] EINLADUNG / INVITATION - Informatisches Kolloquium 12.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

 

Dies ist eine Einladung zum Informatischen Kolloquium am Montag, den 12.11.2018 um 17:15 auf dem Universitätsgelände "Informatikum/Stellingen", im Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal B-201. Der Vortrag mit dem Titel "Taking the best of both worlds: the concept of human-machine collaboration for designing a sustainable partnership" wird von Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn von der Freien Universität Berlin gehalten (Vortragssprache: Englisch).

 

This is an invitation to the next informatics colloquium on Monday, 12 November 2018, at 17:15, on university campus Stellingen, lecture hall B-201. The talk is entitled "Taking the best of both worlds: the concept of human-machine collaboration for designing a sustainable partnership" and will be given in English by Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

Nähere Informationen zu allen in diesem Semester geplanten Vorträgen finden Sie unter:

Please use the following link for more information on all talks planned in this semester:

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/kolloquium/wise18-19.html

 

Im Namen des Kolloquium-Komitees

On behalf of the colloquium committee

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Abstract:

In the last years, peer production systems (e.g., Wikipedia, Wikidata) have emerged that involve a large number of people in problem-solving processes. Although the role of humans in such processes is essential, we want to show to what extent human and machine intelligence are combined to realize the complex tasks in these peer production systems. Previous research has investigated the process of vandalism control in Wikipedia or the translation of social norms into algorithmic mechanisms defined by software functions and bots. From the discussion of these works, we infer the concept of human-machine collaboration and determine initial design parameters that allow us to transfer our findings to other application areas. We present, thus, the first results of our research on human-machine collaboration in the field of ideation. We introduce Interactive Concept Validation (ICV) as an approach that enables ideators to disambiguate terms used in their ideas. Furthermore, we show that our approach allows for a better understanding of the impact of creativity-enhancing interventions in the ideation process. We conclude this talk with an outlook on future research and reflect on the broader impact of our research.

 

 

Bio:

Claudia Müller-Birn is the head of the research group Human-Centered Computing (HCC.lab) at the Institute of Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before her appointment at FU Berlin, she undertook a post-doc at the Carnegie Mellon University, based on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Her interdisciplinary research advances the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Social Computing. She is especially interested in investigating human-machine collaboration in which the collective intelligence of humans intertwines with machine intelligence. Her research entails both an empirical and an engineering dimension. The objective is, on the one hand, to advance our understanding of the functioning of complex socio-technical peer production systems that involve human-machine collaboration and on the other hand, to contribute to a value-based socio-technical systems design that fulfills the specific needs of an application area, such as in ideation, and visualization. Besides, Claudia advocates the use and development of open source software, the principles of open science in her research work, and the open access to scholarly knowledge.

 

  

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Siefgfried Stiehl

 

 

 

Freitag, 2. November 2018

[HIForum] [Kolloquium] EINLADUNG / INVITATION - Informatisches Kolloquium 12.11.2018, 17:15, B201, Informatikum/Stellingen

Dies ist eine Einladung zum Informatischen Kolloquium am Montag, den 12.11.2018 um 17:15 auf dem Universitätsgelände "Informatikum/Stellingen", im Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal B-201. Der Vortrag mit dem Titel "Taking the best of both worlds: the concept of human-machine collaboration for designing a sustainable partnership" wird von Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn von der Freien Universität Berlin gehalten (Vortragssprache: Englisch).

 

This is an invitation to the next informatics colloquium on Monday, 12 November 2018, at 17:15, on university campus Stellingen, lecture hall B-201. The talk is entitled "Taking the best of both worlds: the concept of human-machine collaboration for designing a sustainable partnership" and will be given in English by Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

Nähere Informationen zu allen in diesem Semester geplanten Vorträgen finden Sie unter:

Please use the following link for more information on all talks planned in this semester:

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/home/kolloquium/wise18-19.html

 

Im Namen des Kolloquium-Komitees

On behalf of the colloquium committee

Stephanie Schulte Hemming

Universität Hamburg

 

 

Abstract:

In the last years, peer production systems (e.g., Wikipedia, Wikidata) have emerged that involve a large number of people in problem-solving processes. Although the role of humans in such processes is essential, we want to show to what extent human and machine intelligence are combined to realize the complex tasks in these peer production systems. Previous research has investigated the process of vandalism control in Wikipedia or the translation of social norms into algorithmic mechanisms defined by software functions and bots. From the discussion of these works, we infer the concept of human-machine collaboration and determine initial design parameters that allow us to transfer our findings to other application areas. We present, thus, the first results of our research on human-machine collaboration in the field of ideation. We introduce Interactive Concept Validation (ICV) as an approach that enables ideators to disambiguate terms used in their ideas. Furthermore, we show that our approach allows for a better understanding of the impact of creativity-enhancing interventions in the ideation process. We conclude this talk with an outlook on future research and reflect on the broader impact of our research.

 

 

Bio:

Claudia Müller-Birn is the head of the research group Human-Centered Computing (HCC.lab) at the Institute of Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before her appointment at FU Berlin, she undertook a post-doc at the Carnegie Mellon University, based on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Her interdisciplinary research advances the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Social Computing. She is especially interested in investigating human-machine collaboration in which the collective intelligence of humans intertwines with machine intelligence. Her research entails both an empirical and an engineering dimension. The objective is, on the one hand, to advance our understanding of the functioning of complex socio-technical peer production systems that involve human-machine collaboration and on the other hand, to contribute to a value-based socio-technical systems design that fulfills the specific needs of an application area, such as in ideation, and visualization. Besides, Claudia advocates the use and development of open source software, the principles of open science in her research work, and the open access to scholarly knowledge.

 

  

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Siefgfried Stiehl

 

 

 

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