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School for Transdisciplinary Studies

Digital Transformation - a Scientific Overview (10SMDSI_DTOR)

Description

This module provides students with a scientific overview of the digital transformation of our society from a multidisciplinary perspective. Students receive academic input followed by an interactive session with various DSI professors and learn to engage with and reflect on the challenges, opportunities and consequences of digital transformation.

The students:

  • reflect on the digital transformation of our society,
  • can classify the topics of digitalization,
  • critically consider the social implications of the Digital Society,
  • practice self-reflection in the context of Digital Transformation and
  • gain insights from this at the level of the individual.

Input lectures

Mon, Sept 16,

16:15 - 18:00

Michael Coors

Ethical Reflection of Digitalization 

Mon, Sept 23, 

16:15 - 18:00

Luis Aguiar

Digitization and the Content Industries

Mon, Sept 30,

16:15 - 18:00

Christina Haag

Using language AI to improve mental health

Mon, Oct 7

16:15 - 18:00

Beth Singler

Religious Digital Transformation: From Finding God on the Forums to God-like AI

Mon, Oct 14,

16:15 - 18:00

Lukas Drees

Monitoring of plants with deep learning across different scales

Wed, Oct 21,

16:15 - 18:00

Tilmann Altwicker

Data in Court: How Courts Deal with Statistics

Mon, Oct 28,

16:15 - 18:00

Corinna Reinhardt

Computer Vision approaches to the imagery of the ancient world

Mon, Nov 4

16:15 - 18:00

Reto Gubelmann

Do LLMs unterstand Logical Inferences? Philosophical and Empirical Considerations

Mon, Nov 11,

16:15 - 18:00

Jürgen Bernard

Interactive Visual Analysis of Open Research Data

Mon, Nov 18,

16:15 - 18:00

Chiara De Luca

Neuromorphic technologies for precision farming: exploiting bio-inspired low-power for agricolture optimization

Mon, Nov 25

16:15 - 18:00

Markus Christen

Research ethics and data protection – what you need to know

Mon, Dec 2,

16:15 - 18:00

Mario Angst

Digitalization for sustainability and sustainability of digitalization

Mon, Dec 9, 

16:15 - 18:00

Manuel Günther

Automatic face recognition in theory and practice

Mon, Dec 16,

14:00 - 18:00

Michael Coors 

End-of-semester celebration

Target group

MA

ECTS Credits

3 ECTS

Course catalogue

You can find more information about the module here.

Weiterführende Informationen

Contact

Prof. Dr. Michael Coors 

E-mail