Wednesday off meant another opportunity for a run in “Weinviertel” reminding me of Bliss and WindowsXP in late autumn and of the rather ‘special’ icon Bluesky is using.

Retrospect

Join us!

We published a job offer and we would really love to hear from you! Application deadline is november 13. All info here. And if this is not ideal at the moment but could be an opportunity later: We are constantly searching for brilliant people!

#arsboni

Christoph Zielinski speaking on #AI and medicine was a highlight for me this week. It was stunning to see how little govenance and how much chaos and coincidence and power and tradition there is (also) in the progressmaking of medicine.

If the topic is of interest to you, there is an opportunity to continue the debate ahead.

#arsboni is kindly featured in a recent article in Rudolphina (UNIVIE’s dissemination journal) , together with links to lots of other content coming from this wonderful University that is worth a visit.

Offices

We are, as I just said, constantly growing and changing and focusing and this is a permanent and probably the most demanding challenge to me. Every new person joining means new views, new backgrounds, new priorities and new needs - including space. And space (and my time) are the scarciest resources to work with.

Our existence in the law school’s main builidng (apart from our base in Schenkenstraße 4 that became to small almost from the beginning) is now, finally, almost literally written in stone at Juridicum - so if you haven’t seen us there yet, please drop by:

Prospect

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There are 3 streams and 2 laundry sessions ahead.

The streams:

Friday, November 3, at 11.00 am CET (English)

Monday, November 6, at 10.30 am, I am going to speak (in German) on a topic that is becoming more and more relevant: Diversity (in law). I am very much looking forward to this conversation with one of the best visible experts in the domain, Prof. Anna Katharina Mangold, who is also very active on Twitter and Bluesky,

And also on Monday, at 13.30, I am going to talk - again - with someone from Austria’s Constitutional Court: Prof. Dr. Josef Pauser, the head of the Court’s information services, is going to be with us then:

The two laundry sessions that will be published soon will be with Dr. Catherine Altobelli and Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller - an(other) Austrian Academic successfully working in Germany. He is head of the Munich Network Management Team ad therefore, inter alia, responsible for the management of large IT services at Universities and scientific institutions. We will therefore talk a lot about information security in education and legal requirements to be met here. (There is, unfortunately, again, some reason for interest on this matter, also in my former hometown Hannover.)

It’s really mindblowing, how many attacks are happening in the field.

Symposion on Insurance Science in Graz

On Thursday and Friday I will attend (and give a presentation on data protection) at the symposion of the Austrian Society on Insurance Sciences. The program has lots, lots of AI in it and looks very promising.

AI

AI is everywhere, btw, not only in Graz. I have 2 other internal meetings next week on the matter and I got aware of several more interesting news in the domain, such as a symposium symposion in Graz (again), a professors’ forum and a Gamechanger Award.

The trilogue on the AI act is still on its way, as far as I can tell.

One of my funny personal experiences with AI this week was falling in another music rabbithole on YouTube. I am still fascinated on how many variants of this beautiful Bob Dylan song are out there on the internet and I learned that there is even a subgenre with people listening and reacting on the song - with 10 or so of them on YouTube only, here, here, here, here, here or here:

Isn’t the internet a beautiful thing? And how come, this can be legal?

Have a wonderful week!

Kind regards

Nikolaus (Forgó)