"Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability"

Lecture by Professor Dr Franz Josef Radermacher at the International Hellenic University

With unabated interest, a large audience attended the lecture of professor of artificial intelligence Franz Josef Radermacher on Monday, 5 March, in the main auditorium of the International Hellenic University. The subject of the lecture was "Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability".

Professor Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher was welcomed by Professor N. Moussiopoulos, Vice President of the Governing Board of the IHU, who referred to the structure and high standards set by the University. He also briefly outlined the University’s postgraduate programmes and the countries of origin of the students attending the IHU.

A presentation of the new postgraduate MSc in Sustainable Development was then given by Eftychios Sartzetakis, Assistant Professor (University of Macedonia) and member of the Special Account Management Committee of the International University.

Dr Franz Josef Radermacher began his lecture by referring to experience in the field of artificial intelligence and the interaction between machines, humans, animals, consciousness, emotions and creativity. "We're trying to build machines that think, are conscious. We know that machines do not have feelings like people but we can create machines that behave like they have feelings," he said, drawing a dividing line between creativity and innovation, "Creativity is the new idea, innovation is the implementation of this new concept in practice and the promotion of the market. The core of development is innovation. "

Below you can find and download some material (scientific articles) of Professor Radermacher related to his lecture:

• Common-Goods-in-a-Divided-World-KIT-Publishers-v2.pdf
• earth-capitalism2-v2.pdf
• Finanztext-lang-e.pdf
• geospatial-world-new.pdf
• Politische-Oekologie-englisch.pdf

Speaker information:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher is the Director of FAW/n (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing/n), Ulm, and holds a faculty position for Data Bases / Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ulm.

Member of the Club of Rome and of several national and international advisory boards as well as President of the Senat der Wirtschaft e.V., Bonn, President of the Global Economic Network (GEN), Vienna, and Vice President of the Ecosocial Forum Europe, Vienna.

1997 Scientific Award of the German Society for Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research. 2005 Laureate of the Salzburg Award for Future Research, Salzburg, Austria. 2007 Laureate of “Vision Award 2007” of Global Economic Network (for Global Marshall Plan Initiative). 2007 Laureate of Karl-Werner-Kieffer Award (Stiftung Ökologie und Landbau, SÖL). Member of the Rotarian Action Group for Population & Development (RFPD) - German Section - e.V. Member of the German National Committee of the UNESCO for the World Decade” Education for Sustainable Development“ (2005 – 2014).

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