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  • The Daily Design of the Quantified Self

    The Daily Design of the Quantified Self

    This article focuses on unique design process in regard to training ourselves using visualizations, and on the relation between individual and visualization. The reciprocity of the self-design is a the key concept of personal design, representing the new barrier to overcome. What are the characteristics of a designed object ? [...]
  • What’s Wrong with AI? A Discussion Paper

    What’s Wrong with AI? A Discussion Paper

    There are probably not many people who would doubt that we have arrived in an age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Of course, this opens up many previously untapped opportunities, ranging from production to automated driving and everyday applications. [...]
  • Innovation in Zeiten der digitalen Transformation

    Innovation in Zeiten der digitalen Transformation

    Spätestens seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhundert erleben die Menschen ihre Welt zunehmend als Zeit tiefgreifender globaler Veränderungen, die das Leben jedes Einzelnen massiv beeinflussen können und deren Tempo immer mehr an Fahrt aufnimmt. Dies zeigt sich nicht zuletzt in der sogenannten «digitalen Transformation». [...]

Two Key Learnings from the Health Crisis

by Reinhard Riedl in SIDM Spotlight I 0

Covid-19 is strongly entangled with digital transformation, both in positive and negative ways. On the one hand, Covid-19 has boosted online formats in business, healthcare, [...]

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Business Informatics – Educating Makers of Digitalization for Self-Sovereignty

When Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, claimed last year that a college degree would not be necessary to do well in the IT industry, he earned much criticism from the side of academics. However, reading his statement given at the Whitehouse to its full extent reveals another remark that should have created more uproar. There, he also noted that there [...]

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Edy Portmann
Edy Portmann is Swiss Post Professor of Informatics at the Human-IST Institute of the University of Fribourg. His transdisciplinary research focuses on cognitive computing and its application to cities. After an apprenticeship as an electrician, he studied information systems, business as well as economics and, later, got a doctorate in computer science.

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Arthur Clay
Arthur Clay is a producer and manager of events for art and the sciences. He is the founder and the director of Digital Art Weeks International and the Virtuale Switzerland. As author, he has published widely on technology and art and has received awards for both.

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Reinhard Riedl
Reinhard Riedl, MEng PhD, is a mathematician who focuses on transdisciplinary research combining computer science, business administration, law, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and ethnology.

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Fridel Rickenbacher
Fridel Rickenbacher ist Mitbegründer, DPO CISO und Verwaltungsrat der MIT-GROUP für «Empowering for the 4th Industrial Revolution». Redaktion SwissICT.ch und Experten-Gruppen in den Bereichen CyberSecurity, Privacy, Auditing, Information Ethics, digitale Gesellschaft u.a.

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SECUDE: Biogardens and Information Security

In this video, Dr. Heiner Kromer, CEO of Secude International AG, makes an exciting comparison between the problems of maintaining a bio-garden and problems that are often found in information security. With a touch of humor he even mentions the difficulties of social engineering. In conclusion: Secude helps all companies to make “your garden” secure.

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The acronym NTF stands for non-fungible token is one that is crossing boundaries in the digital world. Although, NFTs can be used to represent many items, but it was its novel application in the digital arts and the resultant high-profile sales on cryptocurrency marketplace that have given acronym a headline status.

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