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Nudge Units and Data-driven Nudging
The past decade has witnessed a global trend of using nudging to intractable policy problems. To date, nudging has been applied in a range of different spheres such as public health, taxation and environmental protection; it is considered…
Interdisciplinary challenges on the way to public value-oriented software engineering
Nowadays, the implementation of values in different types of software-intensive systems – from social media to AI – continues to be topical in many countries around the world. More and more legal frameworks are starting…
Public service online offerings and “internet-specific design tools”
Public service broadcasting is subject to the legal mandate of ensuring diversity; but what about when algorithmic processes and software-based selections influence the delivery of content on online platforms? The project “Coding…
Enabling precision medicine with AI
AI and related technologies keep shaping our society, providing us with more and more solutions that seemed impossible only a few years ago. This blog post gives an insight into the research field of bioinformatics, showing…
How can interactive AI help us write emails?
In this project, we built a prototype AI email editor with text generation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and asked 156 people to write emails with it. We compared different user interface settings and use by native…
What is … Quantum computing
What are quantum computers, and why can they perform operations that conventional computers cannot handle? Explained by professor Stefan Filipp.
Legal freedom or legal mush – Which law applies to the internet?
Digital content is ubiquitous, the legal systems of states are local. Conflict of laws is usually the legal solution, but it does not always and not completely fit. Comprehensive and functional comparative law can be the methodological…
“Digitalisation is shaking the law to its foundations”
Lawyer Dirk Heckmann relies on creativity to shape such a dynamic field as digitalisation. Interdisciplinary cooperation, which is what bidt is all about, is also crucial.
Bundling competencies, promoting talents
Germany’s internet institutes are moving closer together: The Weizenbaum Institute, bidt and CAIS are joining forces to better promote young researchers.
Copyright in the digital age: legislation in the Context of conflicting interests
The blog post traces which interest groups and various stakeholders were able to influence the legislative process in terms of their interests and positions.