Currently Browsing Lectures/Presentations

Annals of System Biology, November 22, 2024
PDF…

Text originally published in QMagazine, 7th of November
PDF…

(with Dr. Asma Naz). Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Rhodes, Greece, June 05 – 07, 2019, pp. 77-85.…

The possible future informs the present (with Dr. Cristina Stefan, African Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, South Africa) Professor Dr. Dr. Mihai Nadin, Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. South Africa Science Forum: Ignite Conversations …

(Keynote speaker), Tartu School of Semiotics / 9th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, August 17-20, 2015…

University of Vienna, Institut fur Potentialfokussierte Pägdagoic, “Anticipation and Human Potential” July, 2016…

Civilization of Illiteracy: conference presentation. School of Sociology (Dr. M. Preda moderating) University of Bucharest. February 11, 2016…

Civilization of Illiteracy: conference presentation. National University of the Arts (Dr. C. Balescu, university rector, moderating) February 10, 2016…

Civilization of Illiteracy. Panel discussion with professors from the School of Sociology, Universitatea Transylvania, February 8, 2016…

Civilization of Illiteracy: conference presentation. School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, February 3, 2016…

Conference on Modern Trends in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain, September 24th, 2015 at the Bekhtereva Institute of the Russian Academy
PDF…

Presentation at the Wateringhole, January 23, 2015
PDF…

Lecture presented at the University of Bremen, Department of Computer Science, October 2003
PDF…

Keynote Address, MedDecSup 2011, International Workshop on Next Generation Intelligent Medical Support Systems, Targu-Mures, Romania, September 18-19, 2011
PDF…

ARS Colloquia ATEC/EMAC, March 6th, 2013
PDF…

Fellow Lecture at Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, January 29, 2012…

Third International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2009), Cancun, Mexico, February 1-6, 2009.
PDF…

(with Gaurav N. Pradhan, Dr. Navzer Engineer, Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran). IEEE 23rd International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE) Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, Media, and Sensing (AIMS) 2007, April 20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
PDF…

Invited lecture before MENSA (North Texas Region), Dallas TX, November 28, 2008…

February 6th 2008: 3:00–6:00 PM
Hosted by the Rachofsky House
8605 Preston Rd.
Dallas, TX 75225
PDF…

Class lectures presented at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, January-February 2001…

(with G.N. Pradhan, N.D. Engineer, and B. Prabhakaran), presented at the 2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop. Emerging Technologies for Healthcare and Quality of Life, UT-Dallas, November 11-12, 2007
PDF…

paper presented in the framework of the session “Anticipating the Future” at Uplift Academy Workshop, Encinitas, CA.
By invitation only seminar on the Good Ancestor Principle, February 4-5, 2007
PDF…

North Texas Bioethics Network, April 25, 2006…

Mihai Nadin, January 2006, Philosophers’ Forum, Dallas, TX
PDF…

a new rational foundation for design, School of Industrial Design, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, April 15, 2005.…

CIMAT (Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas), Guanajuato, Mexico, April 14, 2005…

Keynote Address, Computer Game Conference (cgc 2004), October 15-17, 2004…

Pell Fellow Lecture Series, Salve Regina University, Newport RI. May 05, 2004…

Pell Fellow Lecture Series, Salve Regina University, Newport RI. April 22, 2004…

Lecture presented at the Informatics Technology Center (Technisches Zentrum Informatik) at the University of Bremen on 18 February 2004. …

Anticipatory Behavior Control. A Meeting of Specialists. Delmenhorst, December 13-14, 2003…

Presentation of Anticipation and Innovation at ECC Kohtes Klewes, (consultants for new business solutions), Duesseldorf, November 26, 2003…

25 Years of Computer Science at the University of Bremen, October 9, 2003…

Meersburger Forum for Business and Communications (presented by Schindler Parent & Co., international consultants for economic development), Meersburg, Germany, October 1-2, 2003…

Meeting of the Association of Metal Industry Employers, NRW, 24 June 2003

PDF…

Computer Science Colloquium, University of Bremen, 11 June 2003

PDF…

Audi, GmbH, Ingolstadt, Germany, 19 February 2003
PDF…

Computer Science Department, University of Bremen, February 2003

PDF…

University of Wuppertal, January 2003…

presented in the framework of Lernwelten der Zukunft (Learning Environments of the Future), Education Quality Forum, Dortmund, 21-22 November 2002…

Frankfurt Book Fair, 10 October 2002…

State University of New York-Buffalo, 9 September 2002…

Innovation and Technical Analysis Working Group, (German Ministry for Education and Research – BMBF), Dü sseldorf, 10-11 October 2002
PDF (15.6mb)…

Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 23 May 2002…

Ideas for applying anticipation in the mobility industry. DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Center, Palo Alto, 14 May, 2002…

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) and the Institute for Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 18 April 2002…

Proceedings of the 2nd Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction/NORDICHI,
Aarhus, Denmark (O. W. Bertelsen, S. Bodker, K. Kuutti, Eds.) . New York: ACM. 2002
PDF…

The Contribution of the Social Sciences and the Humanities to the European Research Area.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002. pp. 152-158
PDF…

Campus Conversations, Friends of the University, Wuppertal, Germany, November 8, 2001…

Jü lich Research Center [one of the 15 Helmholtz Research Centers of Germany], 8 October 2001…

(CyberRush and Knowledge Gaps. Babylon in the Third Millennium?) Gmü nder [Design] Gespräche, 28 October 2000…

(Keynote lecture) Writing and Images at the Turning Point, a conference held at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, June 23-25, 2000…

(panel with George Landow, Brown University, USA, University of Singapore; R. Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University; J. McClintock, Columbia University) at Writing and Images at the Turning Point, a conference held at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, June 23-25, 2000…

(The Future is Here) Workshop: Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design, The Hague, 2 April 2000
PDF…

Memoria Futura: Kulturelles Erbe und Informationstechnologie: eine neue Perspektive?
Bonn, 12 December 1999
PDF…

Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS 99), Liege, Belgium, August 8-11, 1999…

Hewlett Packard Research Group, Palo Alto CA, 11 May 1999…

Stanford Seminar on People, Computers and Design, Stanford University, 16 April 1999…

College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, 8 April 1999…

Daimler-Chrysler Research Institute, Berlin, 17 February 1999…

Envisioning Knowledge – The Knowledge Society and the New Media, 3rd International Congress of the Academy for the Third Millennium, Burda Media, Munich, 3-4 February 1999…

(Das interessante als computationale Zielsetzung. Ein Ausflug im ästhetischen Raum).
Celebration Colloquium: Homage to Frieder Nake on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 16 December 1998

PDF…

3rd Visualization Workshop, Bits-Images-Meaning (Bits-Bilder-Bedeutung) Research Group, University of Paderborn, 27 November 1998
PDF…

Semiotics and the Information Sciences, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 13-15 October 1998
PDF…

(with C. Lango) lCVIR Workshop (Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations), University of Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998
PDF…

Plenary session, Third World Congress of the International Society for Universalism, Babson College, Wellesley MA, 7 August 1998
PDF…

Retrospctive Exhibit: Manfred Mohr – Algorithmic Works. Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany,
29 March 1998…

Berlin Working Group for Semiotics and Culture, Technical University, Berlin, 11 Jan 1998…

Joint Research Group (Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Problems and their applications, and Program for Structural Formation Processes) University of Bielefeld, 20 November 1997…

The Language of the Object, symposium held at the Munich Design Center, Germany, 5 November 1997…

PKA Roundtable series, Heiden-Nordick, Germany, 23 June 1997…

Institute for Media Studies, Cologne, Germany, 28 May 1997…

Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 19 May 1997…

Dresden Museum of Technology, Germany, 7 May 1997…

University of Essen, Germany, 5 May 1997…

or: The never-ending story of the butterfly that flapped its wings.
The European City as Cyber-City? Urban Development and New Technologies.
(Eds. H. Hardt, R. Kläsener). Dortmund: Verlag Praxiswissen, 1998, pp. 11-22
Second International City Planning Conference, Xanten, Germany, 12-14 …

Contributions to a Research Consortium dedicated to visualization, Paderborn University, 22 January 1997…

North Rhine Westphalia Research Group, Visualization Strategies and Structural Processes, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 13 December 1996
PDF…

the Institute for Information and Media Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 9 November 1996…

VISCOM Visiting Artist Series, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore MD, 19 September 1996…

Chamber of Commerce, Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid, 22 May 1996…

Deutsche Kommunikations Gesellschaft (German Communications Society), Wuppertal, 21 May 1996…

Dagstuhl International Seminar and Research Center for Information Science, Germany, 19-23 February 1996…

Keynote lecture, Structuralism. An international conference commemorating the pioneers of structuralism, Dresden Technical University, Germany, 19-23 April 1995.…

Graduate Program in Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, 7 March 1995…

Inaugural lecture for the chair of Computational Design, University of Wuppertal, 3 November 1994…

Factory of the Future, organized by the Technology Center of the city of Solingen and the Industrial Design Department of BUGH-Wuppertal, Solingen, 20 October 1994…

Semiotica, 100:2-4, 1994. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 387-405
PDF…

College of Fine Arts, HBK, Braunschweig, 11 November 1993…

The romantic age of computation is coming to an end.
PDF…

keynote address, Interface II, Weltbilder/Bildwelten (an International Symposium in the framework of the first MULTIMEDIALE) Hamburg, 5-7 February 1993…

University of Michigan, School of Art, Ann Arbor, 21 January 1993…

University of Wuppertal, School of Design, Wuppertal, 30 October 1992…

Graduate Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, 14 April 1992…

(concluding address) GDEA Annual Conference (Interactive Multimedia), University of Iowa, 2 November 1991…

Rochester Institute of Technology, 18 April 1991…

Department of Art and Art Professions, SEHNAP, New York University, 26 April 1991…

Kunst und Technologie-Ästhetik im Wandel (Art and Technology-Changing Aesthetics), Braunschweig State Museum, Germany, 16 January 1991…

International Interactive Communication Society, New York, 14 November 1990…

Graduate Seminar, School of the Arts, Department of Communication Arts and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 30 March 1990…

School of the Arts, Department of Communication Arts and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 29 March 1990…

GI-20. Jahrestagung l, II. Informatik auf dem Weg zum Anwender. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the German Society of Information and Computer Sciences. Berlin/New York: Springer Verlag, 1990, pp. 589-601
PDF…

School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York City, 23 October 1989…

Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 5-10 September 1989…

Photo I Workshop, organized by the Ansel Adams Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology and Eastman Kodak, Rochester NY, 21 June 1989…

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 7 May 1989…

SEHNAP Division of Arts and Communication, New York University, 27 April 1989…

IV Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies. Barcelona/Perpignan,
31 March-4 April 1989
PDF…

School of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 15 March 1989…

Visual Arts Department, University of California at San Diego, 8 February 1989…

Visual Arts Department, University of California at San Diego, 8 February 1989…

Visual Arts Department, University of California at San Diego, 7 February 1989…

Lecture series on communication theory and electronic media, University of Essen, Germany,
24 January 1989…

Faculty convocation lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, November 6, 1988…

First International Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht, Holland, 27-30 September 1988
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=73886…

National Conference of Graphic Design Educators Association, Chicago, 24-26 June 1988…

NYNEX Science & Technology Applied Research Seminar Series, White Plains NY, 12 May 1988…

Foundations Lecture Series, Zentrum fü r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6 April 1988…

Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems – Implementational Issues
(with M. Novak). Veldhoven: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, 1988, pp. 281-302.
PDF 1 – PDF 2…

Spring 1988, Columbus, Ohio (USA).
PDF…

Graduate Lecture Series, Ohio State University, Columbus, 29 January 1988…

The Cognitive Condition of Design, (Proceedings B. Zaff, Ed.). pp. 1-4. Columbus: ESRP, 1988
PDF…

Graduate Studies Seminar, Faculty of Arts and Letters, SUNY-Buffalo, 4 December 1987…

(keynote address) Ars Electronica, International conference and computer art competition, Linz, Austria, 16-21 September 1987…

(keynote address) AIGA National Conference, San Francisco CA, 4-7 September 1987…

(with M. Novak) First Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Noordwigkerhout, Holland, 21-24 April 1987
PDF…

(symposium sponsored by the OSU College of the Arts, Battelle Memorial Institute, RichardsonSmith, Inc.), Columbus OH, 26-27 March 1987
http://libtreasures.utdallas.edu/xmlui/handle/10735.1/4462…

(Focus Seminar: Computer Graphic Arts Directions), Computer Graphic Arts 86/87, Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design, New York, 7-10 December 1986…

Computer Graphic Arts 86/87, Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design, New York,
7-10 December 1986…

(keynote address) 25 Years of Computer Art, Munich, Germany, 24 October 1986…

Computer and Information Science Lectures and Seminars, Ohio State University, Columbus, 29 May 1986
PDF…

Paderborn University, Germany, 17 May 1986…

Bremen University, Germany, 15 May 1986…

Essen University, Germany, May 8, 1986…

Keynote address, STA Spring Conference: Finding Order in Chaos, Chicago, 11-13 April 1986…

Battelle Memorial Institute, Human Factors Society, Southern Ohio Chapter, Columbus, April 1986
PDF…

College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 10 April 1986…

Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH, 12 March 1986…

Graduate School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 28 January 1986…

Breakthrough Trends in Graphic Arts (seminar), Computer Graphic Arts 85, Pratt Center for Computer Graphics in Design, New York, 8 -11 December 1985…

(keynote address) Fourth Annual Computer Graphics Conference: Applications on the Leading Edge, University of Oregon Continuation Center, Eugene, 27-29 October 1985
PDF…

12th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 85, San Francisco, 25 July 1985 …

Mellon Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford NJ, 19 March 1985…

Graduate seminar, Computer Graphics Research Group/Cranston Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 1985…

Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (Engineering & Art), Columbus OH, February, 1985
PDF…

Computer Graphics in Art Education (seminar), Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 1985…

University of Essen, Germany, 9 July 1984
Graduate seminar, Department of Industrial Design, Ohio State University, Columbus, February, 1985…

Institute Forum: Technology and Values, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 9 November 1984…

(keynote address), 48th Annual Conference of the Mid-America College Art Association (In the Shadow of the Millennium: Educating Artists in a Post-Industrial Society), Cleveland Institute of Art, 24-26 October 1984…

9th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Indiana University, Bloomington, 11-14 October 1984…

(keynote address) 1st Meeting of the Association for Computer Art & Design Education (ACADE), St. Paul MN, 18-21 July 1984…

State University of New York-Buffalo, 17 April 1984…

3rd Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Palermo, Italy, 25-29 June 1984…

Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 12 May 1984…

(keynote address) Communication in the Post-Industrial Age, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,
25-27 April 1984…

XVII Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, 21-27 August 1983…

8th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Snowbird, UT, 6-9 October 1983…

Design and Technology Update: Adapting to the Forces of Change, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 9-11 May 1983.…

William A. Kern Institute Professorship in Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,
16 March 1983…

Semiotics 1981 (J. Deely , M. Lenhart, Eds.). New York: Plenum, 1983

PDF…

School of Art, Yale University, New Haven CT, 29 January 1983…

Fall Lecture Series, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 3 November 1982…

Art Institute of Boston, 16 October 1982…

The Semiotics of the Visual: On Defining the Field (Special Session), 7th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, SUNY-Buffalo, 21-24 October 1982…

Technology and the Creative Process, The Designer and the Technology Revolution. The Design Schools and the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 13-15 May 1982…

The Designer and the Technology Revolution, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 13-15 May 1982…

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 17 March 1982…

Brown University, Providence RI, 24 March 1982…

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 17 March 1982…

Die mögliche Welt der Utopie. Utopie als integratorisches Modell]
Ästhetik und Utopie. Tü bingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1982
Colloquium and Seminar Week on Aesthetics, University of Essen, Germany, September 1980…

Proceedings of the C.S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress (K.L. Ketner, J. M. Ransdell, C. Eisele, M. Fisch, C. Hardwick, Eds.) No. 23, Sept. 1981 pp. 363-366.
PDF…

Westkunst, Cologne, West Germany, June 1981…

Beyond Beckett: Post-Modern Theater and Drama, 8th Annual Theater Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, 2-4 May 1981…

International Symposium on Risk Theory, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld, Germany, November, 1980…

Working Group on Aesthetics and Semiotics, 9th International Congress for Aesthetics, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-31 August 1980…

Colloquium on Semiotics and Aesthetics: The Constitution of Aesthetic Signs, University of Essen, Germany, 9-11 November 1979…

Working Group on the Semiotics of the Performing Arts, 2nd Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies, Vienna, Austria, July 2-6, 1979…

2nd Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, Austria, 2-6 July 1979…

Colloquium on Semiotics, Berlin Technical University and the Working Group for Semiotics, Berlin, May 1979…

2nd Semiotic Colloquium, German Semiotic Society, Regensburg, Germany, September 1978…

1st International Study Seminar, Urbino, Italy, July 1978…

6th European Colloquium on Semiotics, University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France, April 1978…

Seminar for Information Aesthetics and Semiotics, Institut fü r Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1977…

5th European Colloquium on Semiotics, Aachen, Germany, October, 1977…

4th European Colloquium on Semiotics, University of Stuttgart, Germany, October 1977…

International Semiotic Days, Suzette, France, September 1977…

International Brancusi Seminar, Bucharest, Romania, April 1977…

Meaning as the object of aesthetics (Du sens comme l’obet de l’esthétique), Revue Roumaine des Sciences Sociales (Philosophie et Logique) 22:1, pp. 79-91. 1978

8th World Congress of Aesthetics, Darmstadt, Germany, 1976
PDF…

School of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany, October 1974…

15th World Congress of Philosophy, Varna, Bulgaria, October 1973…