PhD/Postdoc position, Project TAIGER: Training and Guiding AI Agents with Ethical Rules
The Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems Group at TU Wien is seeking a candidate for a PhD research position (four years, 30hours/week) or a postdoctoral research position (two years, 40hours/week), starting as soon as possible. The successful applicant will carry out his/her postdoc/PhD in the research area of formal methods applied to guide autonomous agents based on […]
World Logic Day Lecture: Adnan Darwiche
On 12 January 2024, we invited you to celebrate the international World Logic Day virtually with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) at TU Wien and the Logic community from the city of Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle. Actually, World Logic Day is celebrated on 14 January every year, but as […]
Artificial Intelligence: Ethics Lessons for AI Systems
This is a translation of an article that was published in the Austrian newspaper Kurier on November 25, 2023.
By now, robots and similar systems are making their own decisions, but which ones are these?
“As an AI model, I have no personal opinion, conviction or emotions,” writes a well-known AI-based text program in response to the […]
Talk by Petra Mutzel: Algorithmic Data Science on Graphs
Petra Mutzel is professor of Computational Analytics at the University of Bonn, where she is also the scientific director of the High Performance Computing and Analytics Lab at the Digital Science Center.
She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Cologne in 1994, followed by a PostDoc position at the Max Planck Institute […]
Helmut Veith Stipend – Deadline Nov 30!
The VCLA invites applications for the Helmut Veith Stipend from motivated and outstanding female master’s students who plan to pursue one of the programs in Computer Science at TU Wien taught in English in one of the following semesters:
– winter semester 2023/2024
– summer semester 2024
The deadline of the current call is November 30, 2023. Don’t […]
VCLA participates in FFG-funded project “Transformer”
The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) will participate in the project “Transformer”, which has received approval following the FFG call Co-Creation Spaces Climate & Energy. For this project, six faculties of TU Wien will team up to offer extracurricular learning opportunities with a focus on the environment. Children and teenagers will actively participate […]
Talk by Hans van Ditmarsch: Distributed Knowledge Revisited
Hans van Ditmarsch will be our guest on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. He has previously held talks hosted by the VCLA [One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb (2021), Reasoning about Gossip (2022)]; this time, he will be talking about the concept of distributed knowledge.
Hans van Ditmarsch (source: researcher’s website)
Abstract
We review the history […]
Call for Applications: 2 PhD Positions
Two PhD positions are available within (1) the Institute of Logic and Computation (Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien, Vienna), and (2) the research group Logic in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (Christian Straßer, Ruhr-University Bochum).
We are seeking two exceptionally talented and motivated students. The positions are embedded in the LoDEx project (Logical Methods for Deontic Explanations), a […]
European Researchers Night: School Workshops
On September 29, the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) together with TU Wien Informatics eduLAB held workshops on computer science for elementary school children at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as part of the European Researchers Night.
The workshops started with a discussion of the words informatics and algorithms. The instructor would ask […]
VCLA Award Ceremony: Female Computer Scientists in the Spotlight
On September 26, the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) presented the VCLA International Student Awards to the winners of 2023 at an award ceremony that was held at TU Wien. During the ceremony, the Helmut Veith Stipend was also officially awarded to the winner of 2022. For the first time since the awards’ […]
