Author: Laura Altin

On 18–21 August 2025, the 22nd Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science (ESSCaSS 2025) will be held at the University of Tartu’s Delta Center. The scope The Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science is an annual international event for PhD and MSc students, postdocs, and faculty members. ESSCaSS promotes the interdisciplinary…

On 25–26 August, the workshop on the ethics of artificial intelligence, “Ethics of AI: Navigating Challenges to Values, Society, and Human Welfare,” will be held at the University of Tartu. As artificial intelligence (AI) – and even more so, general artificial intelligence (AGI) – becomes increasingly embedded in decision-making, public services, education, healthcare, and everyday…

On Monday, 2 June at 16:15 an English-language colloquium will take place at the University of Tartu Delta Centre (Narva mnt 18–1008) and on Zoom, discussing the adoption of generative AI in medicine as a large-scale social experiment. The presentation will highlight the need for ethical conditions that support responsible and gradual implementation. The presentation „Generative…

May Thorseth (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, philosophy) will give a lecture “Why AI and Surveillance Capitalism Is a Threat to Democracy?” on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, at 16:15–17:45 in Narva mnt 18-1025. The talk explores how surveillance capitalism and AI algorithms restrict individual autonomy by turning human behaviour into data that is predicted,…

Robert Tarjan will give a lecture “My Life with Data Structures” on Monday, 12 May, at 16:15 in the Delta Study Building, room 1021. All are warmly invited to attend. Robert Tarjan reflects on over five decades of research in algorithm design and data structures. He will share key milestones, from foundational breakthroughs like union-find…