Lecture Series 25/26

‼️ Unfortunately, tonight's lecture by Gabriele Gramelsberger has to be canceled due to illness. We hope to see you next week for Anna Tuschling's lecture on "Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI". Abstract: Current developments in the fields of simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown that the complexity of digital …

Abstract: The lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three characteristics of digital systems: discreteness, arbitrariness, and systematicity. In short, digitality is often understood as a triad that applies not only to modern electronic computers but also to analog sign and writing systems. The lecture examines this form of digital …

Abstract: In my presentation, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from 1960 to 1990. The perspective on Switzerland is significant for the history of computing because the country lacks its own computer industry, but has an internationally well-connected computer science department at ETH Zurich. As I will demonstrate, numerous formal and …