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Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U)
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Located in Austria
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IT:U is proud to share that our founding professor Philipp Wintersberger and an outstanding international team have been honored with the Best Paper Award at this year’s Automotive User Interfaces Conference

Read the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3744333.3747812
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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On 8 October, the Digital City Studio opens its doors — a space where anyone can explore AI, VR, data tools, robotics, and more. Discover the new initiative by IT:U and the City of Linz on its opening day:
📍 Pfarrgasse 9, Linz
🕙 10:00 – 18:00
https://it-u.at/en/digitalcitystudio/
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Discover Our Digital City Studio
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October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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IT:U @ IT-Futures 2025, Linz!
📅 Oct 2: Prof. Frauenberger (DE) – Do we need what we have? Exploring digital innovation that works for people.
📅 Oct 3: Daniel Cracau (EN) – Behavioral AI reshaping strategy.https://it-futures.at/en/home-english/
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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IT:U’s first Network Spotlight on tech regulation and standardization, led by Fellows Prof. Elisabeth Staudegger and Prof. Vladislav Fomin.

Read more: https://it-u.at/en/news/network-spotlight-on-interdisciplinary-pathways-for-technology-regulation-and-standardization/
Network Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Pathways for Technology Regulation and Standardization | IT:U
The latest IT:U Network Spotlight gathered researchers and industry experts to explore how technology regulation and standardization shape our lives. Fellow Professors Elisabeth Staudegger and Vladislav Fomin shared insights from law and IT design studies, showing how only interdisciplinary approach...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This week at the IT:U Pop-Up Store (Linz):
🤖 How can AI become a trustworthy teammate?
🔹 Driving simulator
🔹 Survey on automated vehicles
🔹 Share your multitasking habits

📍 Pfarrgasse 1 | Mon–Fri, 10–18h
👉 Research meets daily life.

#AI #HumanAI #Linz
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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IT:U at Ars Electronica Festival & Pop-Up Store (03.–07.09, POSTCITY).
Topics: social media in crises, climate perceptions vs. data, caring robots in elderly care.

👉 Our Pop-Up Store (Pfarrgasse 1, Linz) runs until 27.09 with new weekly themes.

#ArsElectronica #AI #ITU
September 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In SPIEGEL’s latest cover story, experts discuss the development and risks of (super-)AI. IT:U professor Jie Mei explains what AI developers can learn from the human brain. Read more (German): Künstliche Intelligenz: https://rb.gy/dqbgf5

#ITU #SuperAI #Superintelligence #AI
(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: Wird die KI bald zu mächtig für uns Menschen? - SPIEGEL-Titelstory
Techkonzerne wollen eine höhere künstliche Intelligenz erschaffen. Sie soll große Menschheitsprobleme lösen und als allwissende Assistentin dienen. Kritiker fürchten, so eine KI wäre unkontrollierbar. Andere wiegeln ab.
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September 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Last Friday, IT:U was delighted to welcome Prof. Johannes Frasnelli for a visiting talk on 𝐎𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 & 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬

#ITU #Neuroscience #Parkinsons #Alzheimers #EarlyDetection #Research
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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All Keynotes & Tutorials from Summer School 2025 are now online.
Perfect for those who missed the event — or want to dive deeper into the topics again.
📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3CJiZU2zaP8Y9SEclWv2Glrqc7bnGAg
Summer School 2025
Experience the highlights of Summer School 2025 at IT:U – a week of cutting-edge discussions, hands-on workshops, and global collaboration in Natural Languag...
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August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Do you trust AI easily? Jie Mei, Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience at IT:U on the current topic: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000282502/man-kann-das-gefuehl-bekommen-dass-ki-einem-empathie-entgegenbringt
"Man kann das Gefühl bekommen, dass KI einem Empathie entgegenbringt"
Die Neuroforscherin Jie Mei erklärt, warum Chatbots gern vertraut wird und wieso Medien bei der Interpretation von Forschungsarbeiten vorsichtiger sein sollten
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August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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What happens to our brain when using AI? Jie Mei, Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience at IT:U is giving insights on the media: https://www.diepresse.com/19979000/was-passiert-im-gehirn-wenn-wir-andauernd-chatgpt-befragen
Was passiert im Gehirn, wenn wir andauernd ChatGPT befragen?
Taschenrechner statt Kopfrechnen, Google statt Memorieren und jetzt auch noch künstliche Intelligenz? Verlieren wir wichtige Kompetenzen?
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August 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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DigiEduHack is back!
🌍 Join us @ IT:U from 11–13 Nov 2025 and help shape the future of digital education.
It’s part of a global hackathon series happening 7–16 Nov.
🔗 Register now. https://digieduhack.com/challenges/empowering-education-through-intelligent-analytics
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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78 participants. 16 speakers. 15 countries.
2 full days of ideas, #learning, and connecting across #disciplines.
That was the IT:U #Summer #School 2025 on #NLP – and we’re still buzzing! 💡🌍
Massive thanks to our partners who made it all possible:
KEBA, Sparkasse OÖ, Amazon NOVA & Infineon.
July 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🏆Anton Gasse, Alexander Lingler(@ituaustria.bsky.social), Martin Lorenz, @oulasvirta.bsky.social(@aalto.fi‬), @philwintersberg.bsky.social(@ituaustria.bsky.social) & @patebel.bsky.social won the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster @chiwork.bsky.social 2025 in Amsterdam!
🔗https://shorturl.at/D5JDO
Smiling young man standing next to a poster titled "Evaluating Attention Management Systems for Dynamic Monitoring Tasks" at a conference.
July 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧?
New research by IT:U’s Prof. Jie Mei & Prof. Srikanth Ramaswamy explores neuromodulation & variable firing to make AI more adaptive — featured in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

Read the full blog: https://it-u.at/en/?p=12222

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July 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Rethinking research assessment at IT:U with VisConnect— AI platform for visual researcher profiles. It goes beyond publications to highlight teaching, mentoring & open science. Built with IT:U’s framework, aligned with DORA, CoARA, and more.

Read more: https://it-u.at/en/?p=12149
July 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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🚀 Introducing VisConnect - our new AI-powered service for responsible research assessment.

Developed with @ituaustria.bsky.social, VisConnect delivers rich, visual researcher profiles. Check out the announcement & a live example map: openknowledgemaps.org/news/2025/07...

#OpenScience #DORA #CoARA
Illustration of the VisConnect service by Open Knowledge Maps. On the left, a visual map shows a researcher’s work organised by topic, with a robot icon symbolising AI assistance. On the right, key features are highlighted: a topical overview of key themes, scaling by impact metrics like citations and social media mentions, a structured researcher biography with career highlights, and a configurable overview of traditional and alternative metrics. The image illustrates how VisConnect combines visualisation and analytics for research assessment.
July 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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On June 25–26, IT:U’s International Strategic Advisory Board (ISAB) met to discuss the university’s strategic direction. With experts from molecular biology to political science and data science, ISAB helps shaping IT:U’s further path.
June 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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TiRex, a new AI model co-authored by IT:U founding professor Daniel Klotz, beats Google & Amazon in forecasting benchmarks - all with just 35M parameters. Real-world impact across energy, logistics & more.
Read more: https://pulse.ly/i78dqaphjj

#AI #Forecasting #xLSTM #TimeSeries #MachineLearning
June 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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AI for public safety! At Vienna’s Donauinselfest, technology developed by IT:U’s GeoSocial AI group, led by Bernd Resch, delivered real-time insights from mobile & social media data to support emergency services — all while respecting data privacy. Real-world impact, powered by AI.

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June 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Yesterday, IT:U was proud to be partner of the M-CTRAS Conference 2025 (mctras.upou.edu.ph)
— connecting global educators to advance excellence in mathematics teaching and research.
Thanks to the amazing local organizing team for making it happen!
#MCTRAS #Education #MathEd #ITUAustria
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June 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Insights from DANCR – a project within the interdisciplinary research collective H.A.U.S., co-founded by IT:U PostDoc Christoph Hubatschke, where humanoid robots and dancers co-create movement in real time.
Read more: https://it-u.at/en/news/exploring-human-machine-relationships-through-dance/
Exploring Human-Machine Relationships Through Dance | IT:U
Christopher Frauenberger, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at IT:U, and Christoph Hubatschke, PostDoc in the Human-Computer Interaction Research Group, are exploring AI research with and through contemporary dance. The research builds on the project DANCR, developed within the transdisciplina...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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New study by IT:U Prof. Christian Hilbe & co. reveals stable strategies for navigating social dilemmas using both direct and indirect reciprocity.
👉 Read morehttps://it-u.at/en/news/new-study-by-itu-professor-co-reveals-stable-strategies-for-cooperation-in-social-dilemmas/
June 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Join IT:U at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, hosting 2 workshops!
- Climate Agents: There Is No Planet B
- Social Media & Satellite Images: A Mirror of Our World
23–27 June, don’t miss out:
https://ars.electronica.art/esero/de/anmeldung-zu-den-workshops-am-living-planet-symposium-2025/
Anmeldung zu den Workshops am Living Planet Symposium 2025 – ESERO Austria
Das Living Planet Symposium der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation ESA findet vom 23. bis 27. Juni 2025 im Austria Center in Wien statt. Hier finden Sie unseren Workshop-Kalender und die Anmeldung zu den angebotenen Workshops für Schulklassen und Schüler*innen-Gruppen (ab 9 Jahren).
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June 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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IT:U is proud to share that our researcher Soheil Human has won the MyData Global Thought Leadership Award 2024 & 2025!

🔗 Full story: https://it-u.at/en/news/itu-researcher-wins-mydata-global-awards-for-thought-leadership-on-human-rights/
June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM