23.12.2020
Impact in Research Funding Workshop was held in December 2020
Two of the profiling areas in the University of Turku, Cultural Memory and Social Change and Digital Futures, joined forces and organized together a workshop focusing on impact in research. The Impact in Research Funding Workshop was organized on 15 December. The workshop offered both researchers...
27.11.2020
Responding to Covid-19: inbetween law and technology
13:00-14:00, 16.12.2020, on Zoom Webinar In December 2020, Digital Futures organized an online seminar to discuss the impact of Covid-19 pandemic to society, people and technology. The event was open to researchers, students and staff members interested on the topic. The topic of the seminar was...
16.6.2020
Conference on Technology Ethics
21.10.2020, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku For the fourth time in the row, The Future Ethics research group of University of Turku is inviting researchers and professionals interested in technology ethics to discuss and mingle. Tethics 2020 – Conference on Technology Ethics is organised...
7.2.2020
Call for Papers: Conference on Technology Ethics
21.-22.10.2020, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku Call for Papers for Conference on Technology Ethichs – Tethics 2020 is now open. The conference is organised by the Future Ethics research group of the University of Turku on 21.-22.10.2020 at Turku School of Economics. Tethics 2020...
8.1.2020
WIS 2020 Conference on August 2020
WELL-BEING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY – FRUITS OF RESPECT Turku, Finland on 26-28.8.2020 WIS 2020 focuses on practical experience in the cross-section of urban living, information society and health. The conference is multidisciplinary in nature giving room for qualitative and quantitative analysis, empirical surveys, case studies...
7.2.2020
Guest lecture on probabilistic topic models
21.2.2020 at 13:00-14:00 407, Agora, University of Turku, Department of Future Technologies have invited Postdoctoral researcher Måns Magnusson from the Aalto University to give a guest lecture on Using priors to capture concepts of interesting large corpora. Large-scale probabilistic models, such as word embeddings and topic...
16.10.2019
Towards Sustainable ICT
13.00-15.20, 10.12.2019, ICT City (Beta) The energy consumption of the constantly expanding ICT sector is anticipated to markedly increase in the future. What kind of actions should be carried out for software and hardware to promote energy savings and sustainability in general? Does Finland have specific...
3.12.2019
Seminar on how to publish review articles
11 December at 10-12, Turku School of Economics (LS09) Professor Justin Paul from Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Puerto Rico and Distinguished Scholar at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, will be visiting TSE and holding a Digital Futures Seminar on how to publish review...
22.10.2019
Third Annual Seminar on Technology Ethics
23.-24.10.2019, Turku School of Economics University of Turku hosts a seminar on technology ethics at Turku School of Economics on 23-24 October. The seminar is organized by Future Ethics, one of the research groups in the Turku School of Economics, in collaboration with Digital Futures. On...
13.9.2019
Digital Futures Seminar
10.10.2019, Turku School of Economics Digitalisation is transforming our society by creating new possibilities and disrupting existing social structures. Digital Futures, one of the profiling areas of the University of Turku, is organising a multidisciplinary seminar to discuss the impact of digitalisation on research, scientific methods,...
25.9.2019
Digital Futures Workshop: Research Data Management for Qualitative Studies
13:00-15:30, 10.10.2019, Turku School of Economics, Yhdistys Annika Valaranta from the Finnish Social Science Data Archive helds a workshop on Research Data Management for Qualitative Studies as part of Digital Futures Seminar on 10 October. Workshop introduces different archiving options for qualitative research data. During the...
1.10.2019
Digital Futures Workshop: Sustainability in the Algorithm Economy
14:00-16:00, 10.10.2019, Turku School of Economics, LS13 How can algorithm economy be sustainable? What is the role of politics in the algorithmic knowledge production? How does remote work change in future? How is platform economy regulated? PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 14:00-14:10 Opening remarks 14:10-14:30 Power of algorithms in...
17.9.2019
Digital Futures Seminar: Poster Session
Digitalization is transforming our society by creating new possibilities and disrupting existing social structures. Digital Futures, one of the profiling areas in research of the the University of Turku, is organizing a multidisciplinary seminar to discuss the impact of digitalization on research, scientific methods, and societal...
22.5.2019
Transparent law-making – developing new infrastructure
Thursday 6.6.2019, 12:00-14:00, Cal2 (Calonia) In June, the All Eyes on Data discussion series will focused on law and legislation. The event presented ongoing project within the University of Turku, which aims to improve transparency of law-making by developing new infrastructure which is currently called ’LATAAMO’....
19.10.2018