Karsten Wendland
Karsten Wendland (born October 5, 1972 in Kassel ) is a German computer scientist , human scientist and technology assessor . He is professor at Aalen University and senior researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1992, Karsten Wendland completed an apprenticeship as a mathematical-technical assistant at the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Gymnasium Kassel and studied computer science with software ergonomics and vocational education at the TU Darmstadt from 1993 to 1999 . From 1993 to 2006, in addition to studying and doing a doctorate , Wendland carried out software and web projects for SMEs in his own agency. In 2006 he received his doctorate in the human sciences department of the TU Darmstadt on the subject of technology design.
Karsten Wendland has been Professor of Media Informatics at Aalen University since 2008, specializing in technical editing, and since 2019 Senior Researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) .
Karsten Wendland is a co-founder of the Institute for Social Informatics in Bielefeld and was chairman of the Integrata Foundation for the humane use of information technology in Tübingen from 2011 to 2013 .
Research priorities
In the area of basic research and theory formation, Wendland deals with theories of consciousness and architectures for artificial consciousness, anthropomorphization of technical systems, imitated strong artificial intelligence and subject constitution under the conditions of human-machine fusion. In the field of applied research and consulting, he accompanies socio-technological institutional change processes and the introduction of innovations.
Publications
- SoGIK. Socially oriented design of information and communication technologies . Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3896882752 (with Wolfgang Bender )
- The template cycle . Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8322-5285-4 (= dissertation Darmstadt 2006)
- Studying in cyberspace? The expansion of the campus in virtual space . Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3825884208
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMBF project "Clarification of the suspicion of rising awareness in artificial intelligence (AI awareness)". KIT, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karsten Wendland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wendland at Aalen University
- Wendland at ITAS (KIT)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wendland, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |