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Universität Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42883 2401, Fax: +49 40 4273 14627, Email: info"AT"informatik.uni-hamburg.de

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5 July 2021|Veranstaltung

Registration open for CEPE/IACAP 2021: The Philosophy and Ethics of AI

Are you interested in AI Ethics, AI Philosophy and AI Governance? Join us next week (July 5-9, 2021) for a fabulous program and keynotes by Rafael Capurro, Helen Nissenbaum, Carissa Veliz, Sabina Leonelli and Linnet Taylor. The conference is free of charge and open for anyone interested.

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14 April 2021|Event

Webinar: Power, Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Responsibility of Engineers

EIT public lecture series “Taming the Machines” is going to kick off summer term with Paul Nemitz' talk on April 14th, 2021. Paul Nemitz is Principal Adviser on Justice Policy in the European Commission. In his lecture he will outline the need for a new curriculum for “Engineers for Democracy”, as our world is ever more...

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8 April 2021|Informatik

GOAL International AI Conference – Governance of and by Algorithms, 8./9. April 2021

EIT research group is co-organizer of this international AI online-conference. It will feature interdisciplinary lectures and workshops presented by both GOAL project researchers and distinguished external speakers (e.g. Prof. Frank Pasquale, Prof. Sandra Wachter, Prof. Joanna Bryson, Prof. Linnet Taylor, ...) on the...

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Welcome to the Department of Informatics

The Department of Informatics in the School of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the Universität Hamburg is one of the largest Informatics departments in Germany, excelling in teaching and research by means of a broad and modern profile. We offer a variety of interesting Bachelor and Master programs. Furthermore, there is an English research-oriented Master course “Intelligent Adaptive Systems”. Our aim to provide high quality teaching is enhanced by a system of student evaluations and top-level research.

Our research activities cover a wide range of areas, cooperating with partners from science and industry both at national and international level. Our International Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (TRR) on “Crossmodal Learning (CML)” and our technology transfer organization “Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center (HITeC) e.V.” are particularly noteworthy examples.

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Research

Each workgroup und professorship is assigned to one of three priority areas:

Human-Centered Computing (HCC) is especially dedicated to the obtainment of knowledge in semi-natural and technical systems, the design of adaptive, autodidactic systems and the design of Human-Computer Interaction.

Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) focuses on developing large software applications and infrastructures. The control of complexity and reliable operation are important aspects in this respect.

Computing in Science (CIS) comprises the activities of the department in such areas as High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Big Data.

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Studying

At the Department of Informatics 28 professors research and teach supported by approximately 180 research, technology and management staff. More than 2300 students are enrolled in 5 Bachelor and 5 Master degree courses.

The role of computer science is to support and assist people in dealing with increasingly complex tasks and processes. Systems should remain manageable and understandable: technology has to adapt to human beings, not vice versa.

Research and teaching at the Department of Informatics places human beings at the center of the three principal informatics tasks: analysis, design and construction.

Studying Information Systems

Studying information systems in Hamburg? In a short video, Larissa Gebken tells us how she came to information systems via her business studies and is now a doctoral student researching ways of using IT in order to help people (in German).

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