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SUMMARY:Art Event: The Ambiguity of Sorting
DESCRIPTION:The Ambiguity of Sorting\nHow do technologies of separation bring us together? \nDigital systems are based on acts of transformation from continuity and unity into discreteness and separation. These acts of transformation have been popularized in the multiple ways in which humans engage with AI systems and other forms of digital technologies. Everything we do is transformed\, one could say\, automatically into data. It is transformed into discrete units that can be computed. Digital technologies have become more than tools for research; people produce knowledge with them\, engage emotionally through and with these systems\, generating new forms and spaces of intimacy. At the same time\, these technologies carry a history of creating disconnections\, failing to account for different ways of engaging with the world. They are the result of a certain imaginary of the human and intelligence\, one that leaves aside many other existing ways to be in the world. What kind of communities are enabled by technologies? What kind of technologies are successful in bringing communities together? Can we imagine a history of technology that is based on plural ways of understanding intelligence and the human? How can we design technologies that bring people together? How can we imagine technologies that enable communities? \nThe Ambiguity of Sorting is a pop-up exhibition and a panel discussion that takes place during the 8th edition of the Conference of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Computing. The event brings together installation\, performance\, and conversations to discuss how the history of intelligent systems embodied ideas of intelligence\, the human\, and how we live together. With the panel\, we invite to think of a different history of computing\, one where those that were not thought to be fitting within their categories were creating their own technologies all along. \nWith contribution by: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, Ren Loren Britton\, and Verena Friedrich \nOrganization and moderation: Ana Maria Guzmán Olmos \nFind out more about the artists and their artworks on this website. \nHeader photo: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz\, On the Subject of Tests: Opening Boxes\, 2022. Video.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/art-event-ambiguity-of-sorting/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art,Conference,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T170000
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SUMMARY:Kick-off Event: Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to our kick-off event for the Freedom of Research Summit 2025\, featuring an online talk by Ines Pohl\, the Washington Bureau Chief at Deutsche Welle. \nProgram: \n14:00–14:15: Welcome remarks\n14:15–15:00: Talk by Ines Pohl (via Zoom)\n15:00–15:30: Questions and discussion\n15:30–15:45: Coffee break\n15:45–16:45: World Café\n16:45–17:00: Summary and end \nAbstract: \nThe United States has long been a beacon for freedom of research and expression. People from around the globe have come to this country to enjoy high-quality laboratories\, collaborate with international colleagues\, and thrive in an ideal environment for brilliant minds. However\, this landscape has changed dramatically since Donald Trump’s second term. Universities are facing challenges and lawsuits\, while students and faculty are increasingly concerned about their status\, often hesitant to speak on camera due to fears about the evolving work environment. \nInes Pohl\, a Nieman Fellow who studied at Harvard for a year\, has been covering these changes in the country for many years. She has engaged with professors and students on campus and\, as a White House foreign press pooler\, has had the opportunity to experience Donald Trump firsthand in the Oval Office. \nIn her talk\, she will share her insights on what makes Trump still successful\, what the world can learn from his rise\, and how individuals can stand firm in their beliefs without resorting to self-censorship out of fear of retribution. \nIf you would like to attend\, please send a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/kick-off-event-freedom-of-research-a-european-summit-europe-in-times-of-division/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250625T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T131426
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SUMMARY:Vortrag "Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Caspar Hirschi from the University of St. Gallen will give a talk on “A child of the knowledge economy? On the history of the history of knowledge” (“Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte”) in the KHK c:o/re lecture hall. The talk will be held in German. \nEveryone is cordially invited to attend! \nFor further information and registration\, please contact Sandra Dresia: dresia@histinst.rwth-aachen.de
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/vortrag-ein-kind-der-wissensokonomie-zur-geschichte-der-wissensgeschichte/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:ERS invites… Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis: Competition Law in the Digital Era: AI and other new challenges
DESCRIPTION:Professor Stefan Böschen\, Director of the KHK c:o/re\, and the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) of RWTH Aachen University invite you to another lecture of the “ERS invites…” series\, this time featuring Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis\, Judge at the General Court of the European Union\, to discuss how AI is reshaping the legal landscape from various perspectives. \nFor further information\, please visit the event website.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/ers-invites-dr-peteris-zilgalvis/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250116T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture “The (global) politics of Technology Assessment – discursive-deliberative or agonistic?” – Pierre Delvenne
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the “STS Forum” organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center) at RWTH Aachen University. \nAbstract: \nThe dynamics of convergence of specific practices (e.g.\, responsible research and innovation [RRI]\, technology assessment [TA]) across research and innovation policies are frequently interrogated by STS scholarship. Progress itself has often been defined by its ability to make projects expand without changing their framing assumptions. This quality is “scalability” [and it refers to] the ability of a project to change scales smoothly without any change in project frames (Tsing 2015: 38). In this talk\, I will explore the possible standardization of TA practices and knowledge norms and its consequences at a time when the TA community is considering that TA can and should go global beyond nation-specific practices to meet the current socio-technical challenges of our time. \nCan TA practices be scaled up to reach and engage a global audience? Can there be a global TA organization? Given the normative and philosophical roots of TA that make it unique among the many other practices that aim to support decision making and public debate\, the only sustainable answer to these questions forces us to consider TA’s relation to democracy. I will start by arguing that the politics and practices of scaling TA are matters of democratic politics\, since there is no viable TA without a strong democratic life. \nFrom this point\, I will ask: What kind of democracy are TA practitioners committed to\, and how has this shaped the approaches they have developed to support decision-making and public debate? What are the limits of these visions in terms of the insights and revitalization they can still bring to TA practices and democratic orders? With these questions in mind\, I would like to explore the roots of TA in relation to democracy. Drawing on recent work (Delvenne and Parotte 2024)\, I will begin with a brief overview of four theories of democracy that I find relevant and useful for making sense of TA’s crucial role and activity in the tumultuous times that many democracies are currently experiencing. First\, I will consider the theories of discursive and deliberative democracy developed by Benjamin Barber and Jürgen Habermas\, which are often considered by the TA community to be at the core of TA’s rationales and methodologies (van Est/Brom 2012). I will then include the ideas of two authors who theorized agonistic models of democracy – Noortje Marres and Chantal Mouffe – whose approaches that value conflict and dissensus have somehow been neglected by the TA community and\, to a large extent\, by scholarly work on TA. \nI will argue that the contribution of discursive and deliberative theories\, while crucial\, is now leading to an impasse from which a way out must be found. The successes of the model of democracy sought by Habermas and Barber remain mixed. All around\, the framework of representative democracy is cracking and in need of deep repair given the widening gap between those who govern and those who are governed. As an institutional embodiment of democratic ideals translated into practice\, if it is to continue to play a pioneering role\, adapted to the contemporary challenges posed by the rapid rise of far-right extremism and epistemic ambiguity about the status of science\, TA needs to renew its sources of theoretical inspiration. \nI am not advocating a switch between discursive-deliberative and agonistic approaches. Instead\, my intention is to blur the traditional distinctions between these models of democracy\, leading to the conclusion that it is fruitful to consider the boundary between the two as not insurmountable\, in theory as in practice. Identifying what I will call ‘disturbance zones’ at the intersection of these theories of democracy will allow me to consider the global politics of technology assessment. I will do so tentatively\, guided by Anna Tsing’s conceptual lens\, arguing that in the shadow of the zeitgeist of scalability\, it is necessary to turn attention to the nonscalable as a spur to TA theory and practice.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-the-global-politics-of-technology-assessment-discursive-deliberative-or-agonistic-pierre-delvenne/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241120T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260604T131426
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SUMMARY:Alan Turing\, Artificial Intelligence\, and the Imitation Game - Jack Copeland
DESCRIPTION:At the turn of the millennium Time magazine listed Alan Turing among the twentieth century’s 100 greatest minds. His ideas helped to transport us from an era where ‘computer’ was the term for a human clerk who did the sums in the back office of an insurance company or science lab\, into a world where many have never known life without the Internet. His fundamental contributions to computer science are now widely celebrated\, but less explored is his pioneering work on what we now call artificial intelligence.\nThis lecture describes the evolution of Turing’s thinking about intelligent machinery\, from his wartime investigations at the British codebreaking headquarters at Bletchley Park\, through to his groundbreaking publications in the early 1950s. His famous 1950 article ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ described his Imitation Game\, now called simply the ‘Turing test’. Over the years\, Turing’s test has been the target of a hail of objections from computer science\, philosophy\, and elsewhere. The lecture will suggest that leading objections in the literature miss their mark\, being for the most part based on misunderstandings of Turing’s subtle test; and recent claims that Turing’s test has actually been passed will be evaluated in the light of Turing’s own specification of the test. \nJack Copeland is Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand)\, a world-wide expert on the life and works of Alan Turing as well as a leading philosopher of AI\, computation\, and information. The lecture is followed by a fireplace talk between Jack Copeland and Holger Hoos on Turing and AI. Holger Hoos is professor of computer science at RWTH Aachen University and leading researcher in the field of machine learning. The evening will be introduced by Gabriele Gramelsberger\, director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research Aachen (KHK c:o/re) and professor of philosophy of science and technology at RWTH Aachen University. The event is organized in cooperation between the KHK c:o/re\, the Center for Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen\, and the OecherLab. Available seats are limited; we recommend arriving early. \nYou can find the poster for the event here.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/alan-turing-artificial-intelligence-and-the-imitation-game-jack-copeland/
LOCATION:OecherLab\, Kapuzinergraben 19 D\, 52062 Aachen
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240911T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240911T183000
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SUMMARY:Net Zero Precinct Futures: place-based experimentation for sustainability transitions - Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Darren Sharp
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Darren Sharp\, Monash Sustainable Development Institute (Melbourne\, Australia); RWTH Kármán-Fellow \nAbstract: \nUrban experimentation is an emerging field that brings together academic\, government\, industry and community actors to trial new modes of sustainable development and transition governance approaches. Envisioning sustainable futures involves the co-creation of visions and pathways to orient actors involved in urban experimentation and guide the direction of transformative change.\nIn this lecture Dr Darren Sharp will present an overview of Net Zero Precincts\, a four-year ARC Linkage project to develop and test a new interdisciplinary approach to help cities reach net zero by taking the precinct as an optimal scale for urban transitions. The research takes inspiration from the Net Zero Initiative through which Monash University has committed to achieving net zero emissions across its four Australian campuses by 2030. Net Zero Precincts brings together transition management with design anthropology to support the transition to net zero cities in a way that is responsive to the needs of people\, politics and place.\nDr Sharp will discuss the interdisciplinary approach being developed through an overview of the envisioning process that took place via a workshop series with participants from the Monash Precinct community. Walking tours were used as a catalyst to co-create future visions that took the form of ‘Living Worlds’ using speculative prototyping. A portfolio of Living Lab experiments has been activated to provide an enabling environment for research teams and project partners to test and demonstrate net zero innovations in a place-based setting. The lecture will conclude by exploring how transition managers can leverage monitoring and evaluation to support reflexive learning\, steer transformative outcomes and build capability for the governance of experimentation. \nIf you would like to attend\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/public-university-lecture-by-darren-sharp/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240709T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240709T183000
DTSTAMP:20260604T131426
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SUMMARY:Anwendungen und Herausforderungen der Technologie der künstlichen Intelligenz in der Schul- und Ausbildung: Eine vergleichende Studie zwischen Südkorea und Deutschland - Chun-Shik Kim
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be held in German. \nAbstract: \nWie man sicher weiß\, gewinnen die Geisteswissenschaften im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz und die menschliche Interaktion mit KI Technologien derzeit weltweit als wichtige Forschungsbereiche an Aufmerksamkeit. Dies wird zur Ausweitung von Branchen führen\, die davon leben\, Emotionen zu erzeugen\, wie z.B. Musik\, Film und Kunst. Darüber hinaus wird die KI-Technologie bereits in die allgemeine Schulbildung integriert\, und wenn sie in Zukunft auch in die berufliche Bildung einfließt\, wird sie einen erheblichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Humanressourcen haben. \nDas Bildungsministerium Südkoreas hat die ‘Bildungsrevolution 2030’ ausgerufen und angekündigt\, ab März 2025 als das erste Land der Welt offiziell digitale KI-Lehrbücher für Englisch\, Mathematik und Informationsfächer einzuführen. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern steht Südkorea der Anwendung von KI-Technologien im Bildungsbereich sehr positiv gegenüber. Ähnlich wie Korea fördern Länder wie die USA und Japan aktiv die KI-basierte Bildung\, indem sie die Zahl der KI-bezogenen Informationskurse erhöhen und KI-Strategien und Bildungsrichtlinien aufstellen. \nDas vom BMBF in Deutschland geleitete Projekt ‘Digitalpakt’ zielt auf den Auf- und Ausbau der digitalen Infrastruktur in Schulen in ganz Deutschland zwischen 2019 und 2024. Auch das BMBF hat sein Budget aufgestockt\, um Bildungsmaterialien\, Lernplattformen und zukunftsweisende Projekte zur Unterstützung des KI-Lernens bereitzustellen. In Deutschland gibt es derzeit eine rege Expertendiskussion über die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen durch KI-Technologien wie ChatGPT\, insbesondere im Bildungsbereich. Die Experten betonen für digitale Bildung\, dass junge Menschen in Deutschland in Zukunft auf dem internationalen Arbeitsmarkt nicht mehr konkurrenzfähig sein könnten. \nAus diesem Grund wird dieser Vortrag die aktuelle Situation in Korea und Deutschland in Bezug auf die Anwendung und die Herausforderungen der KI-Technologie in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung vergleichen. Zu diesem Zweck werde ich erstens die Bildungssysteme Koreas und Deutschlands vergleichen\, zweitens den aktuellen Stand der KI-Politik im Bereich der digitalen Bildung in Korea und Deutschland ermitteln und drittens Fälle von digitaler Bildung in der beruflichen Bildung in Korea und Deutschland (Ansan und Aachen) vergleichen und analysieren. Schließlich werde ich Perspektiven und Herausforderungen für die digitale KI-Bildung und die zukünftige Gesellschaft aufzeigen. \nWenn Sie an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen möchten\, schreiben Sie bitte eine kurze E-Mail an events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/anwendungen-und-herausforderungen-der-technologie-der-kunstlichen-intelligenz-in-der-schul-und-ausbildung-eine-vergleichende-studie-zwischen-sudkorea-und-deutschland-chun-shik-kim/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240529T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240529T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T131426
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SUMMARY:c: o/re Movie Nights - Talk: Ideal Locale – her and the envelope function of idealist predication by Ben Woodard
DESCRIPTION:Spike Jonze’s her  (2013) is a near-future science fiction film about the difficulties of romantic relationships particularly in an age of ever-increasing technological mediation. Stemming from this\, the film also explores the entangled nature of consciousness and artificial intelligence\, the role of emotions and memories\, and notions of self. \nAlongside the film’s more obvious critical function\, this talk examines her as fictional text which tests the limits of predication\, of the grasping capacity of language\, to encompass interior content of minds whether emotional\, rational\, natural\, or artificial. This in turn requires analyzing a half-forgotten tract of philosophical logic namely\, that logic is not about the mathematical or logical-like operations of ‘rational’ thinking but rather an idealist tradition of logic that treats predication as judgments about reality that does not assume a clear link between natural objects and discerning human minds. \nThe epistolary aspect of her  demonstrates how the letter\, and the temporal delay inherent in all predication which written language highlights\, emphasizes how the expressions of thought are always suffused with feeling\, and that feeling is not to be viewed as a impediment to logic but rather its impetus. To this end this talk will read her through the work of FWJ von Schelling (especially via Iain Hamilton Grant) and FH Bradley. The idealist conceptualization of logic  shared between these thinkers shows how judgments issued by minds are to be valued not by their correlation to real objects but by their ability to construct shared worlds. \nThis talk is part of our c:o/re Movie nights. \nThe talk will take place at the Theaterstraße 75 at 15h. \nAfter the talk\, in cooperation with the Filmstudio RWTH Aachen\, we will screen the film Her by Spike Jonze.  The screeining of the film will take place at the Aula 1 im Hauptgebäude der RWTH Aachen (Temeplgraben 55\, 52062). All details and tickets can be found here. \nBy “Lifelikeness” (Lebensechtheit in German) we mean the representation and/or imitation of living beings of living beings in science and technology in fields such as robotics\, synthetic biology or AI and neuromorphic computing. We ask how their increasing complexity mimics not only a fixed notion of life\, but also the understanding of “life” as such. \nFurther information on the lecture series can be found here.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/c-o-re-movie-nights-talk-ideal-locale-her-and-the-envelope-function-of-idealist-predication-by-ben-woodard/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Film,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240515T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240515T183000
DTSTAMP:20260604T131426
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SUMMARY:A Crisis of Expertise? - Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Reiner Grundmann
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Reiner Grundmann\, University of Nottingham; RWTH Kármán-Fellow \nThere is a common perception that in recent years\, at least in Western societies\, official expertise has entered a period of crisis with some even proclaiming the ‘death of expertise.’ The underlying causes and potential solutions are diverse\, yet they seem to share a common thread\, as outlined in a widely accepted standard view. This view asserts that in matters that are complex and policy-relevant\, scientific experts assume a central position. Political decision-makers should heed these experts’ advice and ideally implement their recommendations. \nIn my talk I want to challenge this standard view. I will do this through an alternative conceptual framework which distinguishes between different forms of expertise\, and puts them into the context of social change. \nI will also argue that the notion of expertise being in crisis is unhelpful as it implies a temporary state of affairs that will either return to a prior\, stable state of expertise\, or\, indeed\, result in its demise. Expertise is in a process of reconfiguration. While official expertise faces challenges\, not only from dissenting scientists but also from citizen expertise and AI systems\, the impact is uneven across society. Overall\, there is a growing demand for and supply of expertise\, with a multitude of voices participating. Consequently\, a return to a scenario where official expertise holds a monopoly position seems unlikely. \nIf you would like to attend\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/a-crisis-of-expertise-karman-lecture-with-reiner-grundmann/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die. A lecture by Professor Thomas Haigh
DESCRIPTION:The history of AI is the history of an overhyped brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear\, if somewhat horrifying\, purposes. Over almost seventy years it’s been attached to a range of loosely related projects\, none of which have yet come close to delivering on the promise of creating computer systems with human-like intelligence. One insider characterized the story of AI as “the history of failed ideas.” Yet in the process of failing\, early AI researchers made vital but incidental contributions to the development of computer technology and computer science. In this talk I’ll ask where did discussion of artificial intelligence come from\, why was it so attractive to researchers and sponsors\, and what did the lofty rhetoric of machine intelligence have to do with the actual practice of artificial intelligence as it institutionalized through research labs\, curricula\, textbooks\, and professional associations? I’ll also look for continuities and discontinuities between our own moment and earlier cycles of AI hype and disillusionment. \nThomas Haigh\, PhD is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Comenius Visiting Professor of the History of Computing at Siegen University. He has published on many aspects of the history of computing including the evolution of data base management systems\, word processing\, the software package\, corporate computer departments\, Internet software\, computing in science fiction\, the “software crisis” of the 1960s\, IBM in Europe\, and the Colossus code breaking machines.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die-a-lecture-by-professor-thomas-haigh/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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